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4. Thomas Bewick | History of British Birds, 1797–1804–1821, 2 volumes
5. Peter Brown | New Illustrations of Zoology, 1776, finely-bound copy
6. William Curtis | Flora londinensis, 1777–1798, 2 volumes bound in 4
7. Anselme-Gaëtan Desmarest | Histoire naturelle des tangaras, des manakins et des todiers, 1805
8. Rembert Dodoens | A niewe herball, London, 1578, calf over wooden boards
9. Daniel Giraud Elliot | Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants, 1870-1872, coloured plates
10. William Cornwallis Harris | Portraits of the game and wild animals of Southern Africa, 1840
11. James Edmund Harting | The ornithology of Shakespeare, 1871, the author's own copy
12. James Edmund Harting | A handbook of British birds, 2 editions and notes
13. Francis Salvin and William Henry Broderick | Falconry in the British Isles, 1873
14. Edward Rodd and James Edmund Harting |The Birds of Cornwall, 1880, annotated and with extra material inserted
15. James Edmund Harting | Essays on Sport, 1883, the author's copy
16. James Edmund Harting | Manuscript copy of Perfect booke for kepinge of sparhawkes, 1886, with the limited edition
17. James Edmund Harting | Bibliotheca accipitraria, 1891, the author's annotated copy
18. James Edmund Harting | Hints on the Management of Hawks, 1898, annotated
19. James Edmund Harting | "British Mammals", a volume so titled containing various annotated articles by Harting
20. James Edmund Harting | Recreations of a Naturalist, 1906, the author's copy, annotated
23. John Hill | The British Herbal, 1756
25. René Lesson | Histoire naturelle des oiseaux-mouches. Paris, [1829–1830], plates in two states, fine copy
26. David Low | The breeds of domestic animals of the British Islands, 1842, fine coloured plates
27. Albert Millican | Autograph manuscript of 'Travels and Adventures of an Orchid Hunter' with letters and first edition
30. William Scrope | Deer Stalking and Salmon Fishing, 1838–1843, 2 volumes, presentation copy finely bound
31. Henry Seebohm | A monograph of the turdidae. Or family of thrushes, [1898]-1902, 2 volumes, fine copy
32. George Ernest Shelley | A monograph of the nectariniidae, 1876-1880, fine copy from the library of Lord Lilford
33. Archibald Thorburn | An album containing eight original drawings of birds of prey
35. Pieter van der Aa | Veteris orbis tabulae geographicae, [1714]
36. Admiralty charts | A collection of 59 charts, twentieth century
37. Al-Idrisi | Charta Rogeriana. Weltcarte des Idrisi, 1154 [but Stuttgart: Konrad Miller, 1928]
38. Carel Allard | World map, c.1683
40. Willem and Joan Blaeu | Le theatre du monde, 1643-1645, 4 volumes, contemporary presentation binding
41. Georg Braun und Franz Hogenberg | Civitates orbis terrarum. Cologne, 1597-c.1606, 5 volumes, hand-coloured, calf
42. William Camden | Britannia, London, 1607, old reversed calf
43. C.F. Delamarche | A rare jigsaw atlas, c.1880
44. Electric and International Telegraph Company | Map of Europe ... shewing the system of Telegraphs, 1859
45. Henricus Hondius | World map, 1641
46. Qianren Huang | "Blue Map" of China. [Daoguang, 19th century]
48. MacDonald Gill | Two wartime maps: Australia, 1942, and New Zealand, 1943
49. Richard Marshall | World map, 1785
50. Abraham Ortelius | Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1595
51. Edward Quin | An Historical Atlas. London, 1830
52. John Russell | [Atlas to Guthrie's system of Geography]. London, 1811, calf
54. John Speed | A group of 69 loose maps from his Theatre and Prospect, 1676
55. Ferdinand Verbiest | Kunyu quantu [A Complete Map of the World]. Beijing 1674, reprinted Seoul, c.1860 or c.1930
60. Joan Blaeu | Theatrum urbium Belgicae foederatae, c.1649
63. Daniel Meisner | Thesauri philopolitici tomi secundi pars prima [pars secunda], 1627–1628
64. Fynes Moryson | An itinerary. London, 1617, speckled calf
65. Adam Perelle | An album of engraved views of Paris, c.1680, fine English binding
66. Pierre Lambert de Saumery | Les delices de Liege, Liege, 1738-1744, 5 volumes, calf bindings