Marshall Rare Books
Natural History
Colour plate books, 15th–20th century
Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836, describing their Examination of the Southern Shores of South America
First edition, a very attractive set, of the complete narrative of ‘one of the most famous scientific expeditions in history’ (DSB). The third volume…
Histoire de la Laponie, sa description, l’origine, les moeurs, la maniere de vivre des ses habitans. Traduites du Latin par L. P. A. L(ubin).
Paris (chez la veuve Olivier de Varennes) 1678. Small 4to (237 x 176 mm.). (14), 3-4 (variant of leaf signed A2), 1-408 pp. Engraved extra title…
A Voyage to China and the East Indies… Together with a Voyage to Suratte … And An Account of the Chinese Husbandry…
2 vol., FIRST EDITION, translated from German, 13 engraved plates, occasional ink stains, bookplate of Earl of Roden, shelf mark on pastedown, small…
BATHYSPHERE, NONSUCH ISLAND – Photo Album 1930-1931
A collection of 163 small format black and white photographs of the research team and their work on land and sea, manuscript captions on verso…
A Narrative of a Visit to the Mauritius and South Africa.
Published: Hamilton, Adams & Co., London, 1844 First Edition, 648 + lvi pages appendix, frontispiece View of Table Bay - an etching from a drawing by…
Four Watercolours of Chinese Birds
1820] 250 x 170mm, Four Brightly Coloured Paintings of the Rufous -Throated Partridge; Chinese Bulbul; Jocobin Cuckoo; and Green Iora. Painted on…
Fauna Boreali-Americana, or, The Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America: containing descriptions of the objects of natural history collected on the late northern land expeditions
London: John Murray, Richard Bentley and Josiah Fisher, 1829- 1837, 4 vols, 4to, (275 x 200mm), Contemporary red half morocco gilt, with 110 engraved…
Common Crane
Original watercolour, for plate 64, in volume 3, in Lilford's Birds of the British Islands, signed in pencil ‘G.E. Lodge’, 225 x 150mm, c.1885
A Fine Pair of Watercolours of Papaver Somniferum and Convolvulaceae (morning glory).
On paper, c. 1800. [470 x 340 & 390 x 330mm].
The Natural History of Cornwall: The Air, Climate, Waters, Rivers, Lakes,Sea and Tides; of the Stones, Semimetals, Metals, Tin, and the Manner ofMining; the Constitution of the Stannaries
Jackson, Oxford: 1758.Folio,full tan calf gilt, xix, 326, (2) pp.with 28 engraved plates, large folding map; leaf of errata and directions to the…