Sales catalogue 66: Wheldon & Wesley

Date:
1947
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/87
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 66: Wheldon & Wesley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    place of publication is omitted in the case of books published in London. GENERAL Agassiz (A.) Three Cruises of the steamer ‘‘ Blake ” in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea and along the Atlantic Coast of the United States from 1877 to 1880, with folding map and 550 illustrations. 2 vols., royal 8vo, cloth, 1888, scarce. £4 Also published as Bulletin M.C.Z., Vols. 14 and 15. Andersson (C. J.) Lake Ngami, or explorations and discoveries during four years’ wanderings in the wilds of South Western Africa, pp. xviii, 546, folding map and 16 plates, rr new cloth, 1856 £2 3 Annales de Chimie, ou Recueil de mémoires concernant la chimie et les arts qui en dépendent par MM. de Morveau, Lavoisier, Monge, Berthollet, etc., vols. 1 to 6, in 3 vols., 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, arms on sides, Paris, 1789-90 £7 10s 4 “ Astrolobe et Zelee ’—Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l’Oceanie sur les corvettes |’Astrolabe et la Zeleé—Histoire du Voyage, by Dumont d’Urville, 10 vols. in 5, 8vo, new cloth, 1841-46, scarce £12 — bo A folio atlas, was also published. 5 Becquerel (K.) La Lumiere, ses causes et ses effets, coloured and other plates, 2 vols. in 1, 8vo, new cloth, Paris, 1867-68 ay ee apie £2 10s 6 Belt (T.) The Naturalist in Nicaragua, pp. xvi, 403, map and illustrations, cr. 8vo, original cloth. 1874 £2 10s First edition. Scarce. Inserted is an autograph letter from the author to Sir William ——, dated July 9th, 1873, asking for the identification of several Nicaraguan plants. Bennett (G.) Gatherings of a Naturalist in Australasia, pp. xii, 456, 8 coloured plates and text figures, 8vo, cloth, 1860, scarce. £2 10s Berkhey (J. le F. van) Natuurlyke Historie van Holland, vols 1-4, part 1, coloured map, 33 plates and 12 tables, in.7 vols., 8vo, half calf, Amsterdam, 1769-79 ovenited POS Comprises : Climate, rivers, etc. (Vol. 1) ; ato ete. (Vol. 2) ; Inhabitants and their Priaboide (Vol. 3) ; The Horse (Vol. 4, part 1). A further six parts (Vol. 4, part 2, to Vol. 9) were issued dealing with cattle and other animals. A nice copy. ys 9 Bombay Natural History Society, Journal. A series from 1903 to 1939, vols. 15 to 41, part 2, vols. 17 to 22 bound, rest-in parts, Bombay, 1903-1939 £38 10 Bonaparte (C. L.) Iconografia della fauna. Italica per le quattro classi degli animali vertebrati, with 180 fine hand-coloured plates, 3 vols., folio (16 in. x 114 in.), green morocco, gilt tops, Rome, 1832-41 £30 Rare. The-plates are divided as follows: Birds 24, Mammals 24, Amphibia 54, Fishes 78. The joints of Vol. 3 have been neatly repaired. 11 Brehm (A. E.) Der kleine Brehm, das gesammte Tierreich in allgemeinverstindlicher Darstel- lung, neubearbeitet von W: Kahle, pp. 760, with 8 coloured and 64 plain plates, roy. 8vo, cloth, Basel [1946], new £2 10s 12 Brenchley (J. L.) Jottings during the cruise of H.M.S. Curacoa among the South Sea Islands in 1865, pp. xxviii, 487, map and 60 plates (43 coloured), imp. 8vo, cloth, 1873, rare £5 Includes contributions on Birds (G. R. Gray), with 21 coloured plates ; Reptiles and Fishes (A. Gunther), with 14 plates (5 coloured); Shells, with 8 coloured plates ; Insects, with 8 coloured plates. 13 British Astronomical Association, Journal. A set complete from the commencement in 1890 to 1934, vols. 1 to 44, vols. 1-24, half calf, Vols. 33, 34 cloth, rest in parts, 1890-1934 £20 14 Brookes (R.) A new and accurate system of Natural History, numerous plates, 6 vols., 8vo, original boards uncut, 1763, scarce £4 10s 15 Brussels, Academie Royale. Memoires. Vols. 27 to 36, 4to, boards, Brussels, 1853-67 £10 16 Chapman (A.) On Safari, big-game hunting in British East Africa, with studies of bird-life, ~] oO pp. xvi, 340, with 170 illustrations, 8vo, new half morocco, uncut, 1908, scarce £3 10s 17 —— Memories. of fourscore years less two, 1852-1929, with a memoir by G. Bolam, pp. xxviii, 257, portrait, 24 coloured and 3 plain plates and 81 text figures, 8vo, cloth, 1930 £1 10s 18 Charleton (W.) Exercitationes de Differentiis et Nominibus Animalium . . . Editio secunda, duplo fere auctior priori, pp. [xiv], 119, 106, 78, [20], with 17 plates of which 15 are in the text, sm. folio, old falf, Oxford, 1677, rare £8 10s 19 Chemical Industry, Journal of the Society of, a set from the beginning in 1882 to 1931, Vols. 1 to 50, and general index to Vols. 1 to 24, 4to, 29 vols. bound, rest in ae 1882-1931 £45 Without Vol. 44. 20 Copenhagen. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening, a series from 1925 to 1938, Vols. 79 to 95, 97 to 101, roy. 8vo, as issued, Copenhagen, 1925-38 £8 10s Contains much on invertebrate zoology including results of Mortensen’s. Pacific eae 1914-16, The bulk of the papers are in English or German, :