Marshall Rare Books
Natural History
Colour plate books, 15th–20th century
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KEICHOUSAURUS HUI [MARINE REPTILE]
A nice example of a Keichousaurus fossil
Hidden gem
Portrait photograph of Charles Darwin
One of the rarest of cameron's portraits
A Monograph of the Lories, or Brush-Tongued Parrots, composing the family Loriidae.
An excellent copy of one of the most attractive works on parrots.
The Natural History of Staffordshire
Plot's work on Staffordshire combines scientific enquiry with local folklore to provide an intriguing account not merely of the county's natural…
Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History. Volume I, Parts IV and V. Part IV. — A Complete Mosasaur Skeleton, Osseous and Cartilaginous. Part V. — A Skeleton of Diplodocus.
A scarce first edition of Osborn’s proposal that the Diplodocus may be regarded as relatively nimble and able to raise itself up onto its two hind…
The Silurian System, Founded on Geological Researches in the Counties of Salop, Hereford, Radnor, Montgomery, Caermarthen, Brecon, Pembroke, Monmouth, Gloucester, Worcester, and Stafford
"probably the greatest work ever to be published embodying the results of a single piece of research by one man.”
A Monograph of the Lories, or Brush-Tongued Parrots, composing the family Loriidae.
First Edition, First Issue
The Cretaceous Theropodous Dinosaur Gorgosaurus
One of the best descriptions of any tyrannosaurid
The Game-Birds and Water-Fowl of South Africa.
A Monograph of the Trogonidae, or Family of Trogons.
A Stunning Copy of the Enlarged Second Edition.
Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle…
First edition, first issue, an attractive copy of the first separate issue of Darwin’s Journal, his first formal publication and a classic of natural…
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication.
A very bright and clean copy.
A Monograph of the Pheasants
"Perhaps the greatest ornithological work of the present century, notable not only for its beauty and the wealth of information it contains, but also…
Hidden gem
Natural History of Central Asia.
The real life indiana jones
The Naturalist on the River Amazons
“One of the finest scientific travel books of the 19th century” - DSB
A Collection of 12 pages of Gouache Paintings of Insects of Reptiles
Lepidoptera and reptiles
Ornithological Watercolours.
A rare and extremely fine collection of watercolours by the noted ornithological artist, Charles Hayes. Collections of his work are very rare: this…
Esperienze intorno alla generazione degl’insetti … in una lettera all’illustrissimo signor Carlo Dat
First edition of Redi's famous attack on the theory of spontaneous generation.
A Description of certain Belemnites, preserved , with a great proportion of their soft parts, in the Oxford Clay, at Christian-Malford, Wilts
In 1837 Richard Owen, acknowledged as the greatest comparative anatomist of his day, changed the focus of his work to palaeontology when he began to…
A Cabinet of Quadrupeds; Consisting of Highly-Finished Engravings, by James Tookey; from Drawings, by Julius Ibbetson; with Historical and Scientific Descriptions, by John Church.
Highly-finished engravings of domesticated and wild animals by James Tookey from drawings by Julius Ibbetson with historical and scientific…
Important letter to Sir John Harmer on Carnivorous Beetles
A fine unpublished letter to John Harmer, thanking him for his account of a beetle attacking a six-inch worm, and for the beetle itself, which Harmer…
A General Natural History:or,New and Accurate Descriptions of the Animals,Vegetables,and Minerals,of the Different Parts of the World;with Their Virtues and Uses,as far as hitherto certainly known,in
The Pinetum Britannicum. A descriptive account of Hardy Coniferous Trees, cultivated in Great Britain.
