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Auction Date
August 14, 2025 - August 14, 2025
Page Size: 285 items in 12 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
203 Bree (C. R.)

A History of the Birds of Europe

1863-64 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 533.40
204 Detmold (Edward Julius)

Attributed to. Crane in flight

[circa 1900 or slightly later] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 95.25
205 Edwards (George)

Follower of. Original drawing of 'The Knot'

1846 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 139.70
206 Huet (Nicolas)

Original preliminary drawing of a Kitta holosericea

[circa 1830] GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 762.00
207 Lilford (Lord)

Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands

1885-97. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,079.50
208 Meinertzhagen (Colonel R.)

Birds of Arabia

1980 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 762.00
209 Whitaker (J.I.S.)

The Birds of Tunisia

1905 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 381.00
210 Blossfeldt (Karl)

Art Forms in Nature. Examples from the Plant World Photographed Direct from Nature

1929 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 190.50
211 Culpeper (Nicholas)

Culpeper's English Physician and Complete Herbal

[1798]. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 190.50
212 [Duppa (Richard)]

The Classes and Orders of the Linnean System of Botany

1816 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 215.90
213 Martyn (Thomas)

Flora Rustica

1792 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 457.20
214 Smith (James Edward)

English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants

[1832-1851]. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 406.40
215 Wooster (David)

Alpine Plants

1874 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 127.00
216 Buffon (G.L.M.L., Comte de)

A Natural History, General and Particular...To which is added A History of Birds

1828] GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 584.20
217 Buffon (G.L.M.L., Comte de)

Natural History of Birds

1808 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 241.30
218 Wilson (Owen S.)

The Larvae of the British Lepidoptera and their Food Plants

1880 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 152.40
219 Havell (William)

Attributed to. Farm scene with woodland in the distance

1832 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 558.80
220 Hicks (F.C.)

Forty Years with Wild Animals in India

Madras 1911 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
221 Conchology.- Sowerby (George Brettingham)

Illustrated Index of British Shells

1887 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 165.10
222 Conchology.- Wood (William)

General Conchology...

1815 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 508.00
223 Edmondston (Arthur)

A View of the Ancient and Present State of the Zetland Islands

Edinburgh 1809 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 152.40
224 Mantell (Gideon)

A Pictorial Atlas of Fossil Remains

1850 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 457.20
225 Cobb (Arthur J. editor)

Modern Garden Craft

1936 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 95.25
226 Egypt.- Hart (Henry Chichester)

Some Account of the Fauna and Flora of Sinai, Petra, and Wady 'Arabah

1891 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 330.20
227 Morris (Richard)

Flora Conspicua; A Selection of the most ornamental flowering, hardy, exotic and indigenous Trees

v.s. 18th-19th century GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 558.80
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