Edinburgh, William Blackwood, 1853-1880 (ninth edition, one a later reprint), and 1864-1878 (eighth and ninth thousands). With the later pictorial bookplate of 'Bernard G. Brett, Mahon, Toorak' in each volume. This set does not contain the companion atlas (oblong large octavo). More

London, Edward Lloyd, 1896 and 1897. The set comprises BOWDLER SHARPE, R.: British Birds (four volumes with 124 colour plates); OGILVIE-GRANT, W.R.: Handbook to the Game Birds (two volumes with 42 colour plates); KIRBY, W.F.: Handbook to the Order Lepidoptera (five volumes with 159 colour plates); FORBES, H.O.: Handbook to..... More

London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1874 (second edition). The complete first series in an attractive Victorian binding. A further five volumes in two series were published, covering the reign of Queen Victoria. Each volume contains the armorial bookplate of the South Australian pastoralist and book collector Henry Hampden Dutton (1879-1932);..... More

London, printed for G. and W. Nichol [and numerous others], 1816 (first thus). Loosly inserted is an early receipt 'Bought of S.& J. Ridge ... Newark', dated 1829. More

London, John Murray, 1875/ 1874. Provenance: James Richard Fowler (1865-1939), of the Adelaide-based wholesale grocery dynasty, with his ownership signature in ink in each volume (and his neat underlining and marginal marks in pencil on virtually EVERY page). More

London, G. Bell and Sons, 1920/ 1904 (a reissue in eight volumes of the publisher's ten-volume edition, first published in 1893-99). More

[Philadelphia], 'Printed for subscribers only from the plates made by the Lutetian Society' [by George Barrie & Son, circa 1924]. Number 160 of 1000 sets of the 'Library Edition, with the etchings on Japan paper', comprising unexpurgated translations of six novels from Zola's sweeping Rougon-Macquart novel cycle. The stated aim..... More