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THE REPTILES, byProfessor Bell. Second Edition, 12s.
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A GENERAL OUTLINE OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM AND MANUAL OF COMPARATIVE ANATOMY. In one thick vol. 8vo., containing nearly 350 Illustrations, 38s.Or Royal 8vo., 3l.16s.Imperial 8vo., 5l.14s.
FLORA CALPENSIS: Contributions to the Botany and Topography of Gibraltar and its neighbourhood, with Plan and Views of the Rock. To which is added a Translation ofEd. Boissier’s Account of the Vegetation of Gibraltar, with Description of New Species. ByE. F. Kelaart, M.D., F.L.S., Army Medical Staff. 8vo. cloth, 10s.6d.
ORNITHOLOGICAL RAMBLES IN SUSSEX; with a Systematic Catalogue of the Birds of that County, and Remarks on their Local Distribution. ByA. E. Knox, M.A., F.L.S. Post 8vo., with 4 Lithographic Views, 7s.6d.Second Edition. Also by Mr.Knox,
GAME BIRDS AND WILD FOWL: their Friends and their Foes. With Illustrations byWolf. Post 8vo., price 9s.
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE VARIETIES OF MAN. ByRobert Gordon Latham, M.D., F.R.S., Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge; Vice-President of the Ethnological Society of London; Corresponding Member of the Ethnological Society of New York. 8vo., illustrated, 21s.
JOHN VAN VOORST, 1, PATERNOSTER ROW.
HERALDRY OF FISH. ByThomas Moule. The Engravings, 205 in number, are from Stained Glass, Tombs, Sculpture and Carving, Medals and Coins, Rolls of Arms, and Pedigrees. 8vo., 21s.A few on large paper (royal 8vo.) for colouring, price 2l.2s.A FAMILIAR INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF INSECTS. With numerous Illustrations. ByEdward Newman, F.L.S. One vol. 8vo., 12s.A HISTORY OF BRITISH FOSSIL MAMMALS AND BIRDS. By ProfessorOwen, F.R.S., &c. In 8vo., with 237 Illustrations, price 1l.11s.6d.; on large paper (royal 8vo.), 3l.3s.ON PARTHENOGENESIS; or, The Successive Production of Procreating Individuals from a single Ovum. By ProfessorOwen, F.R.S. 8vo. 5s.A MANUAL OF GOTHIC MOLDINGS. A Practical Treatise on their Formation, Gradual Development, Combinations, and Varieties; with full Directions for copying them, and for determining their Dates. ByF. A. Paley, M.A. Second Edition, Illustrated by nearly 600 Examples. 8vo., 7s.6d.A HISTORY OF BRITISH FOREST-TREES, Indigenous and Introduced. ByPrideaux John Selby, F.L.S., M.W.S., &c. Nearly 200 Engravings. 8vo. 28s., royal 8vo., 2l.16s.A HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS. ByWilliam Yarrell, F.L.S., V.P.Z.S., &c. This work contains a history and a portrait of each species of the Birds found in Britain. The three volumes contain 535 Illustrations. Second Edition. 3 vols. demy 8vo., 4l.14s.6d.; royal 8vo., 9l.; or imperial 8vo., 13l.10s.A Supplement to the first edition, demy 8vo., 2s.6d.; royal 8vo., 5s.; imperial 8vo., 7s.6d.Also by Mr.Yarrell,A HISTORY OF BRITISH FISHES. Second Edition, in two vols. demy 8vo. Illustrated by nearly 500 Engravings, 3l.A Supplement to the First Edition, demy 8vo., 7s.6d.; royal 8vo., 15s.; imperial 8vo., 1l.2s.6d.BAPTISMAL FONTS. A Series of 125 Engravings, Examples of the different Periods, accompanied with Descriptions; and with an Introductory Essay by Mr.Paley. 8vo., 1l.1s.DOMESTIC SCENES IN GREENLAND AND ICELAND. 16mo., Illustrated, 2s.6d.Second Edition.ELEMENTS OF PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE; Explaining, in Question and Answer, and in familiar language, what most things daily used, seen, or talked of, are; what they are made of, where found, and to what uses applied. Second Edition, 16mo., with Illustrations, 3s.THE POOR ARTIST; or, Seven Eye-Sights and One Object. Fcap. 8vo. 5s.GOLDSMITH’S VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. With 32 Illustrations, byWilliam Mulready, R.A.; engraved byJohn Thompson. Square 8vo., 1l.1s., or 36s.in morocco.WATTS’S DIVINE AND MORAL SONGS. With 30 Illustrations, byC. W. Cope, R.A.; engraved byJohn Thompson. Square 8vo., 7s.6d., or 21s.in morocco.
HERALDRY OF FISH. ByThomas Moule. The Engravings, 205 in number, are from Stained Glass, Tombs, Sculpture and Carving, Medals and Coins, Rolls of Arms, and Pedigrees. 8vo., 21s.A few on large paper (royal 8vo.) for colouring, price 2l.2s.
A FAMILIAR INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF INSECTS. With numerous Illustrations. ByEdward Newman, F.L.S. One vol. 8vo., 12s.
A HISTORY OF BRITISH FOSSIL MAMMALS AND BIRDS. By ProfessorOwen, F.R.S., &c. In 8vo., with 237 Illustrations, price 1l.11s.6d.; on large paper (royal 8vo.), 3l.3s.
ON PARTHENOGENESIS; or, The Successive Production of Procreating Individuals from a single Ovum. By ProfessorOwen, F.R.S. 8vo. 5s.
A MANUAL OF GOTHIC MOLDINGS. A Practical Treatise on their Formation, Gradual Development, Combinations, and Varieties; with full Directions for copying them, and for determining their Dates. ByF. A. Paley, M.A. Second Edition, Illustrated by nearly 600 Examples. 8vo., 7s.6d.
A HISTORY OF BRITISH FOREST-TREES, Indigenous and Introduced. ByPrideaux John Selby, F.L.S., M.W.S., &c. Nearly 200 Engravings. 8vo. 28s., royal 8vo., 2l.16s.
A HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS. ByWilliam Yarrell, F.L.S., V.P.Z.S., &c. This work contains a history and a portrait of each species of the Birds found in Britain. The three volumes contain 535 Illustrations. Second Edition. 3 vols. demy 8vo., 4l.14s.6d.; royal 8vo., 9l.; or imperial 8vo., 13l.10s.A Supplement to the first edition, demy 8vo., 2s.6d.; royal 8vo., 5s.; imperial 8vo., 7s.6d.Also by Mr.Yarrell,
A HISTORY OF BRITISH FISHES. Second Edition, in two vols. demy 8vo. Illustrated by nearly 500 Engravings, 3l.A Supplement to the First Edition, demy 8vo., 7s.6d.; royal 8vo., 15s.; imperial 8vo., 1l.2s.6d.
BAPTISMAL FONTS. A Series of 125 Engravings, Examples of the different Periods, accompanied with Descriptions; and with an Introductory Essay by Mr.Paley. 8vo., 1l.1s.
DOMESTIC SCENES IN GREENLAND AND ICELAND. 16mo., Illustrated, 2s.6d.Second Edition.
ELEMENTS OF PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE; Explaining, in Question and Answer, and in familiar language, what most things daily used, seen, or talked of, are; what they are made of, where found, and to what uses applied. Second Edition, 16mo., with Illustrations, 3s.
THE POOR ARTIST; or, Seven Eye-Sights and One Object. Fcap. 8vo. 5s.
GOLDSMITH’S VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. With 32 Illustrations, byWilliam Mulready, R.A.; engraved byJohn Thompson. Square 8vo., 1l.1s., or 36s.in morocco.
WATTS’S DIVINE AND MORAL SONGS. With 30 Illustrations, byC. W. Cope, R.A.; engraved byJohn Thompson. Square 8vo., 7s.6d., or 21s.in morocco.
London, December1860.
Catalogue of Books
PUBLISHED BY MR. VAN VOORST.
INDEX.
Accentuated List,p.7Adams & Baikie’s Manual Nat. Hist., 12Adams’s Genera of Mollusca, 5Aikin’s Arts and Manufactures, 14Anatomical Manipulation, 12Ansted’s Ancient World, 9—— Elementary Course of Geology, 9—— Geologist’s Text-Book, 9—— Gold-Seeker’s Manual, 9—— Scenery, Science, and Art, 14Babington’s Flora of Cambridgeshire, 7—— Manual of British Botany, 7Baptismal Fonts, 15Bate and Westwood’s British Crustacea, 5Beale on Sperm Whale, 3Bell’s British Quadrupeds, 3—— British Reptiles, 4—— British Stalk-eyed Crustacea, 5Bennett’s Naturalist in Australasia, 11Bloomfield’s Farmer’s Boy, 16Boccius on Production of Fish, 4Bonaparte’s List of Birds, 3Brightwell’s Life of Linnæus, 14Burton’s Falconry on the Indus, 3Church and Northcote’s Chem. Analysis, 9Clark’s Testaceous Mollusca, 5Cocks’s Sea-Weed Collector’s Guide, 8Couch’s Illustrations of Instinct, 11Cumming’s Isle of Man, 13Currency, 16Dallas’s Elements of Entomology, 5Dalyell’s Powers of the Creator, 12—— Rare Animals of Scotland, 12Dawson’s Geodephaga Britannica, 7Domestic Scenes in Greenland & Iceland, 14Douglas’s World of Insects, 6Dowden’s Walks after Wild Flowers, 8Drew’s Practical Meteorology, 11Drummond’s First Steps to Anatomy, 11Economy of Human Life, 16Elements of Practical Knowledge, 14England before the Norman Conquest, 14Entomologist’s Annual, 5—— Companion, 6Evening Thoughts, 14Fly Fishing in Salt and Fresh Water, 4Forbes’s British Star-fishes, 5—— Malacologia Monensis, 5—— and Hanley’s British Mollusca, 5—— and Spratt’s Travels in Lycia, 13Garner’s Nat. Hist. of Staffordshire, 13—— Figures of Invertebrate Animals, 14Gosse’s Aquarium, 13—— Birds of Jamaica, 3Gosse’s British Sea-Anemones, &c., 13—— Canadian Naturalist, 13—— Handbook to Marine Aquarium, 13—— Manual of Marine Zoology, 13—— Naturalist’s Rambles on Dev. Coast, 13—— Omphalos, 10—— Tenby, 13Gray’s Bard and Elegy, 15Greg and Lettsom’s British Mineralogy, 10Griffith & Henfrey’s Micrographic Dict., 11Harvey’s British Marine Algæ, 8—— Thesaurus Capensis, 8—— Flora Capensis, 8—— Index Generum Algarum , 8—— Nereis Boreali-Americana, 8—— Sea-side Book, 13Henfrey’s Botanical Diagrams, 7—— Elementary Course of Botany, 7—— Rudiments of Botany, 7—— Translation of Mohl, 7—— Vegetation of Europe, 7—— & Griffith’s Micrographic Dict., 11—— & Tulk’s Anatomical Manipulation, 12Hewitson’s Birds’ Eggs, 3—— Exotic Butterflies, 6Instrumenta Ecclesiastica, 15Jenyns’s Observations in Meteorology, 11—— Observations in Natural History, 11—— White’s Selborne, 13Jesse’s Angler’s Rambles, 4Johnston’s British Zoophytes, 6—— Introduction to Conchology, 5—— Terra Lindisfarnensis, 9Jones’s Aquarian Naturalist, 11—— Animal Kingdom, 11—— Natural History of Animals, 11Knox’s (A. E.) Rambles in Sussex, 3Knox (Dr.), Great Artists & Great Anat., 11Latham’s Descriptive Ethnology, 12—— Ethnology of British Colonies, 12—— Ethnology of British Islands, 12—— Ethnology of Europe, 12—— Man and his Migrations, 12—— Varieties of Man, 12Leach’s Synopsis of British Mollusca, 5Letters of Rusticus, 12Lettsom and Greg’s British Mineralogy, 10Lowe’s Faunæ et Floræ Maderæ, 8—— Manual Flora of Madeira, 8Malan’s Catalogue of Eggs, 3Martin’s Cat. of Privately Printed Books, 16Melville and Strickland on the Dodo, 4Micrographic Dictionary, 11Mohl on the Vegetable Cell, 7Moule’s Heraldry of Fishp.4Newman’s British Ferns 9—— History of Insects 6—— Letters of Rusticus 12Northcote & Church’s Chem. Analysis 9Owen’s British Fossil Mammals 10—— on Skeleton of Extinct Sloth 10Paley’s Gothic Moldings 16—— Manual of Gothic Architecture 16Poor Artist 14Prescott on Tobacco 14Prestwich’s Geological Inquiry 10—— Ground beneath us 10Samuelson’s Honey-Bee 10—— Earthworm and Housefly 10Sclater’s Tanagers 3Seemann’s British Ferns at One View 7Selby’s British Forest Trees 8Shakspeare’s Seven Ages of Man 15Sharpe’s Decorated Windows 15Shield’s Hints on Moths and Butterflies 6Siebold on True Parthenogenesis 6Smith’s British Diatomaceæ 9Spratt and Forbes’s Travels in Lycia 13Stainton’s Butterflies and Moths 6—— History of the Tineina 6Strickland’s Ornithological Synonyms 4—— Memoirs 10—— and Melville on the Dodo 4Sunday-Book for the Young 14Tugwell’s Sea-Anemones 6Tulk and Henfrey’s Anat. Manipulation 12Vicar of Wakefield, Illustr. by Mulready 15Watts’s Songs, Illustrated by Cope 16Ward (Dr.) on Healthy Respiration 14Ward (N. B.) on the Growth of Plants 8Westwood and Bate’s British Crustacea 5White’s Selborne 13Wilkinson’s Weeds and Wild Flowers 7Williams’s Chemical Manipulation 9Wollaston’s Insecta Maderensia 7—— on Variation of Species 12Yarrell’s British Birds 3—— British Fishes 4—— on the Salmon 4
NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BRITISH ISLES.
This Series of Works is Illustrated by many Hundred Engravings; every Species has been Drawn and Engraved under the immediate inspection of the Authors; the best Artists have been employed, and no care or expense has been spared.
This Series of Works is Illustrated by many Hundred Engravings; every Species has been Drawn and Engraved under the immediate inspection of the Authors; the best Artists have been employed, and no care or expense has been spared.
A few Copies have been printed on Larger Paper.
SESSILE-EYED CRUSTACEA, by Mr.Spence Bateand Mr.Westwood. Part 1, price 2s.6d., on January 1st, 1861.QUADRUPEDS, by ProfessorBell. A New Edition preparing.BIRDS, by Mr.Yarrell. Third Edition, 3 vols. £4 14s.6d.COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE EGGS OF BIRDS, by Mr.Hewitson. Third Edition, 2 vols., £4 14s.6d.REPTILES, by ProfessorBell. Second Edition, 12s.FISHES, by Mr.Yarrell. Third Edition, edited by SirJohn Richardson, 2 vols., £3 3s.STALK-EYED CRUSTACEA, by Prof.Bell. 8vo, £1 5s.STAR-FISHES, by ProfessorEdward Forbes. 15s.ZOOPHYTES, by Dr.Johnston. Second Edition, 2 vols., £2 2s.MOLLUSCOUS ANIMALS AND THEIR SHELLS, by ProfessorEdward Forbesand Mr.Hanley. 4 vols. 8vo, £6 10s.Royal 8vo, Coloured, £13.FOREST TREES, by Mr.Selby. £1 8s.FERNS, by Mr.Newman. Third Edition, 18s.FOSSIL MAMMALS AND BIRDS, by Prof.Owen. £1 11s.6d.
SESSILE-EYED CRUSTACEA, by Mr.Spence Bateand Mr.Westwood. Part 1, price 2s.6d., on January 1st, 1861.
QUADRUPEDS, by ProfessorBell. A New Edition preparing.
BIRDS, by Mr.Yarrell. Third Edition, 3 vols. £4 14s.6d.
COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE EGGS OF BIRDS, by Mr.Hewitson. Third Edition, 2 vols., £4 14s.6d.
REPTILES, by ProfessorBell. Second Edition, 12s.
FISHES, by Mr.Yarrell. Third Edition, edited by SirJohn Richardson, 2 vols., £3 3s.
STALK-EYED CRUSTACEA, by Prof.Bell. 8vo, £1 5s.
STAR-FISHES, by ProfessorEdward Forbes. 15s.
ZOOPHYTES, by Dr.Johnston. Second Edition, 2 vols., £2 2s.
MOLLUSCOUS ANIMALS AND THEIR SHELLS, by ProfessorEdward Forbesand Mr.Hanley. 4 vols. 8vo, £6 10s.Royal 8vo, Coloured, £13.
FOREST TREES, by Mr.Selby. £1 8s.
FERNS, by Mr.Newman. Third Edition, 18s.
FOSSIL MAMMALS AND BIRDS, by Prof.Owen. £1 11s.6d.
JOHN VAN VOORST, 1 PATERNOSTER ROW.
ZOOLOGY.
MAMMALIA.
History of British Quadrupeds, including the Cetacea.By THOMAS BELL, F.R.S., P.L.S., Professor of Zoology in King’s College, London. Illustrated by nearly 200 Engravings, comprising portraits of the animals, and vignette tail-pieces. 8vo. New Edition in preparation.Natural History of the Sperm Whale, and a Sketch of a South Sea Whaling Voyage. By THOMAS BEALE. Post 8vo, 12s.cloth.
History of British Quadrupeds, including the Cetacea.By THOMAS BELL, F.R.S., P.L.S., Professor of Zoology in King’s College, London. Illustrated by nearly 200 Engravings, comprising portraits of the animals, and vignette tail-pieces. 8vo. New Edition in preparation.
Natural History of the Sperm Whale, and a Sketch of a South Sea Whaling Voyage. By THOMAS BEALE. Post 8vo, 12s.cloth.
BIRDS.
History of British Birds.By WILLIAM YARRELL, V.P.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. This work contains a history and a picture portrait, engraved expressly for the work, of each species of the Birds found in Britain. Three volumes, containing 550 Illustrations. Third Edition, demy 8vo, £4 14s.6d.Coloured Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds, with Descriptions of their Nests and Nidification. By WILLIAM C. HEWITSON. Third Edition, 2 vols. 8vo, £4 14s.6d.The figures and descriptions of the Eggs in this edition are from different specimens to those figured in the previous editions.Systematic Catalogue of the Eggs of British Birds, arranged with a View to supersede the use of Labels for Eggs. By the Rev. S. C. MALAN, M.A., M.A.S. On writing-paper. 8vo, 8s.6d.Ornithological Rambles in Sussex.By A. E. KNOX, M.A., F.L.S. Third Edition. Post 8vo, with Four Illustrations by Wolf, 7s.6d.Falconry in the Valley of the Indus.By R. F. BURTON, Author of ‘Goa and the Blue Mountains,’ &c. Post 8vo, with Four Illustrations, 6s.Monograph of the Birds forming the Tanagrine GenusCALLISTE; illustrated by Coloured Plates of all the known species. By P. L. SCLATER, M.A., Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, F.Z.S., &c. 8vo, £2 2s.Birds of Jamaica.By P. H. GOSSE, F.R.S., Author of the ‘Canadian Naturalist,’ &c. Post 8vo, 10s.Geographical and Comparative List of the Birds ofEurope and North America. By CHARLES LUCIEN BONAPARTE, Prince of Musignano. 8vo, 5s.The Dodo and its Kindred; or, The History, Affinities and Osteology of the Dodo, Solitaire, and other Extinct Birds of the Islands Mauritius, Rodriguez, and Bourbon. By H. E. STRICKLAND, M.A., F.G.S., F.R.G.S., and R. G. MELVILLE, M.D. Edin., M.R.C.S. Royal 4to, with 18 Plates and other Illustrations, £1 1s.Ornithological Synonyms.By the late HUGH EDWIN STRICKLAND, M.A., F.R.S., &c. Edited by Mrs. HUGH EDWIN STRICKLAND and SIR WILLIAM JARDINE, Bart., F.R.S.E., &c. 8vo, Vol. I. containing the Order Accipitres, 12s.6d.Vol. II. in the press.
History of British Birds.By WILLIAM YARRELL, V.P.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. This work contains a history and a picture portrait, engraved expressly for the work, of each species of the Birds found in Britain. Three volumes, containing 550 Illustrations. Third Edition, demy 8vo, £4 14s.6d.
Coloured Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds, with Descriptions of their Nests and Nidification. By WILLIAM C. HEWITSON. Third Edition, 2 vols. 8vo, £4 14s.6d.The figures and descriptions of the Eggs in this edition are from different specimens to those figured in the previous editions.
Systematic Catalogue of the Eggs of British Birds, arranged with a View to supersede the use of Labels for Eggs. By the Rev. S. C. MALAN, M.A., M.A.S. On writing-paper. 8vo, 8s.6d.
Ornithological Rambles in Sussex.By A. E. KNOX, M.A., F.L.S. Third Edition. Post 8vo, with Four Illustrations by Wolf, 7s.6d.
Falconry in the Valley of the Indus.By R. F. BURTON, Author of ‘Goa and the Blue Mountains,’ &c. Post 8vo, with Four Illustrations, 6s.
Monograph of the Birds forming the Tanagrine GenusCALLISTE; illustrated by Coloured Plates of all the known species. By P. L. SCLATER, M.A., Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, F.Z.S., &c. 8vo, £2 2s.
Birds of Jamaica.By P. H. GOSSE, F.R.S., Author of the ‘Canadian Naturalist,’ &c. Post 8vo, 10s.
Geographical and Comparative List of the Birds ofEurope and North America. By CHARLES LUCIEN BONAPARTE, Prince of Musignano. 8vo, 5s.
The Dodo and its Kindred; or, The History, Affinities and Osteology of the Dodo, Solitaire, and other Extinct Birds of the Islands Mauritius, Rodriguez, and Bourbon. By H. E. STRICKLAND, M.A., F.G.S., F.R.G.S., and R. G. MELVILLE, M.D. Edin., M.R.C.S. Royal 4to, with 18 Plates and other Illustrations, £1 1s.
Ornithological Synonyms.By the late HUGH EDWIN STRICKLAND, M.A., F.R.S., &c. Edited by Mrs. HUGH EDWIN STRICKLAND and SIR WILLIAM JARDINE, Bart., F.R.S.E., &c. 8vo, Vol. I. containing the Order Accipitres, 12s.6d.Vol. II. in the press.
REPTILES.
History of British Reptiles.By THOMAS BELL, F.R.S., President of the Linnean Society, V.P.Z.S., &c., Professor of Zoology in King’s College, London. Second Edition, with 50 Illustrations, 12s.
History of British Reptiles.By THOMAS BELL, F.R.S., President of the Linnean Society, V.P.Z.S., &c., Professor of Zoology in King’s College, London. Second Edition, with 50 Illustrations, 12s.
FISHES.
Production and Management of Fish in Fresh Waters, by Artificial Spawning, Breeding, and Rearing. By GOTTLIEB BOCCIUS. 8vo, 5s.History of British Fishes.By WILLIAM YARRELL, V.P.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. Third Edition. Edited by SIR JOHN RICHARDSON, M.D. Two vols. demy 8vo, illustrated by more than 500 Engravings, £3 3s.Yarrell.—Growth of the Salmon in Fresh Water.With Six Coloured Illustrations of the Fish of the natural size, exhibiting its structure and exact appearance at various stages during the first two years. 12s.sewed.Heraldry of Fish.By THOMAS MOULE. Nearly six hundred families are noticed in this work, and besides the several descriptions of fish, fishing-nets, and boats, are included also mermaids, tritons, and shell-fish. Nearly seventy ancient seals are described, and upwards of twenty subjects in stained glass. The engravings, two hundred and five in number, are from stained glass, tombs, sculpture and carving, medals and coins, rolls of arms, and pedigrees. 8vo, 21s.; a few on large paper (royal 8vo) for colouring, £2 2s.Fly-Fishing in Salt and Fresh Water.With Six Coloured Plates, representing Artificial Flies, &c. 8vo, 7s.6d.An Angler’s Rambles.By EDWARD JESSE, F.L.S., Author of ‘Gleanings in Natural History.’ Contents:—Thames Fishing—Trolling in Staffordshire—Perch Fishing Club—Two Days’ Fly-fishing on the Test—Luckford Fishing Club—Grayling Fishing—A Visit to Oxford—The Country Clergyman. Post 8vo, 10s.6d.
Production and Management of Fish in Fresh Waters, by Artificial Spawning, Breeding, and Rearing. By GOTTLIEB BOCCIUS. 8vo, 5s.
History of British Fishes.By WILLIAM YARRELL, V.P.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. Third Edition. Edited by SIR JOHN RICHARDSON, M.D. Two vols. demy 8vo, illustrated by more than 500 Engravings, £3 3s.
Yarrell.—Growth of the Salmon in Fresh Water.With Six Coloured Illustrations of the Fish of the natural size, exhibiting its structure and exact appearance at various stages during the first two years. 12s.sewed.
Heraldry of Fish.By THOMAS MOULE. Nearly six hundred families are noticed in this work, and besides the several descriptions of fish, fishing-nets, and boats, are included also mermaids, tritons, and shell-fish. Nearly seventy ancient seals are described, and upwards of twenty subjects in stained glass. The engravings, two hundred and five in number, are from stained glass, tombs, sculpture and carving, medals and coins, rolls of arms, and pedigrees. 8vo, 21s.; a few on large paper (royal 8vo) for colouring, £2 2s.
Fly-Fishing in Salt and Fresh Water.With Six Coloured Plates, representing Artificial Flies, &c. 8vo, 7s.6d.
An Angler’s Rambles.By EDWARD JESSE, F.L.S., Author of ‘Gleanings in Natural History.’ Contents:—Thames Fishing—Trolling in Staffordshire—Perch Fishing Club—Two Days’ Fly-fishing on the Test—Luckford Fishing Club—Grayling Fishing—A Visit to Oxford—The Country Clergyman. Post 8vo, 10s.6d.
INVERTEBRATA.
History of British Sessile-eyed Crustacea(Sand-hoppers, &c.). By C. SPENCE BATE, F.L.S., and J. O. WESTWOOD, F.L.S., &c. With figures of all the species, and tail-pieces. Uniform with the Stalk-eyed Crustacea by Professor Bell. Part I on January 1st.History of British Stalk-eyed Crustacea(Lobsters, Crabs, Prawns, Shrimps, &c.). By THOMAS BELL, President of the Linnean Society, F.G.S., F.Z.S., Professor of Zoology in King’s College, London. The volume is illustrated by 174 Engravings of Species and tail-pieces. 8vo, £1 5s.; royal 8vo, £2 10s.Introduction to Conchology; or, Elements of the Natural History of Molluscous Animals. By GEORGE JOHNSTON, M.D., LL.D., Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, author of ‘A History of the British Zoophytes.’ 8vo, 102 Illustrations, 21s.History of British Mollusca and their Shells.By Professor ED. FORBES, F.R.S., &c. and SYLVANUS HANLEY, B.A., F.L.S. Illustrated by a figure of each known Animal and of all the Shells, engraved on 203 copper-plates. 4 vols. 8vo, £6 10s.; royal 8vo, with the plates coloured, £13.Synopsis of the Mollusca of Great Britain.Arranged according to their Natural Affinities and Anatomical Structure. By W. A. LEACH, M.D., F.R.S., &c. &c. Post 8vo, with 13 Plates, 14s.History of the British Marine Testaceous Mollusca.By WILLIAM CLARK. 8vo, 15s.Genera of Recent Mollusca; arranged according to their Organization. By HENRYandARTHUR ADAMS. This work contains a description and a figure engraved on steel of each genus, and an enumeration of the species. 3 vols. 8vo, £4 10s.; or royal 8vo, with the plates coloured, £9.Malacologia Monensis.A Catalogue of the Mollusca inhabiting the Isle of Man and the neighbouring Sea. By EDWARD FORBES. Post 8vo, 3s., Edinburgh, 1838.History of British Star-fishes, and other Animals of theClass Echinodermata. By EDWARD FORBES, M.W.S., Professor of Botany in King’s College, London. 8vo, with more than 120 Illustrations, 15s., or royal 8vo, 30s.Elements of Entomology: an Outline of the Natural History and Classification of British Insects. By WILLIAM S. DALLAS, F.L.S. Post 8vo, 8s.6d.The Entomologist’s Annual for 1855 to 1860.12mo, 2s.6d.each.History of the British Zoophytes.By GEORGE JOHNSTON, M.D., LL.D. Second Edition, in 2 vols. 8vo, with an illustration of every species. £2 2s.; or on large paper, royal 8vo, £4 4s.Manual of the Sea-Anemones commonly found on theEnglish Coast. By the Rev. GEORGE TUGWELL, Oriel College, Oxford. Post 8vo, with Coloured Illustrations, 7s.6d.Natural History of Animals.By Professor T. RYMER JONES. Vol. II. Insects, &c., with 104 Illustrations, post 8vo, 12s.Familiar Introduction to the History of Insects; being a Second and greatly Improved Edition of the Grammar of Entomology. By EDWARD NEWMAN, F.L.S., Z.S., &c. With nearly 100 Illustrations, 8vo, 12s.The World of Insects: a Guide to its Wonders. By J. W. DOUGLAS, Secretary to the Entomological Society of London. This work contains rambling observations on the more interesting members of the Insect World to be found in the House, the Garden, the Orchard, the Fields, the Hedges, on the Fences, the Heaths and Commons, the Downs, in the Woods, the Waters, or on the Sea Shore, or on Mountains. 12mo, stiff-paper wrapper, 3s.6d.Siebold on True Parthenogenesis in the Honey-Bee andSilk-Worm Moth. Translated from the German by W. S. DALLAS, F.L.S. 8vo, 5s.Practical Hints respecting Moths and Butterflies, with Notices of their Localities; forming a Calendar of Entomological Operations throughout the Year, in pursuit of Lepidoptera. By RICHARD SHIELD. 12mo, stiff-paper wrapper, 3s.Hewitson’s Exotic Butterflies.Vol. I., containing 398 Coloured Figures of new or rare species, Five Guineas.“In this work there is a truthfulness of outline, an exquisite delicacy of pencilling, a brilliancy and transparency of colouring, that has rarely been equalled, and probably never surpassed.”—The President in his Address to the Entomological Society, 1856.Of Vol. II., Sixteen Parts (21 to 36 of the entire work) are at this time published, 5s.each.Manual of British Butterflies and Moths.By H.T. STAINTON. 2 vols. 12mo, 10s.Natural History of the Tineina.By H. T. STAINTON, Coloured Plates. Vol. I. to V. 8vo, cloth, each 12s.6d.Entomologist’s Companion(to the Tineina). By H. T. STAINTON. Second Edition, 12mo, 3s.Geodephaga Britannica: a Monograph of the Carnivorous Ground-Beetles Indigenous to the British Isles. By J. F. DAWSON, LL.B. 8vo, without the Plates, 10s.Insecta Maderensia; being an Account of the Insects of the Islands of the Madeiran Group. By T. VERNON WOLLASTON, M.A., F.L.S. 4to, with Thirteen Coloured Plates of Beetles, £2 2s.An Accentuated List of the British Lepidoptera, with Hints on the Derivation of the Names. Published by the Entomological Societies of Oxford and Cambridge. 8vo, 5s.
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History of British Stalk-eyed Crustacea(Lobsters, Crabs, Prawns, Shrimps, &c.). By THOMAS BELL, President of the Linnean Society, F.G.S., F.Z.S., Professor of Zoology in King’s College, London. The volume is illustrated by 174 Engravings of Species and tail-pieces. 8vo, £1 5s.; royal 8vo, £2 10s.
Introduction to Conchology; or, Elements of the Natural History of Molluscous Animals. By GEORGE JOHNSTON, M.D., LL.D., Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, author of ‘A History of the British Zoophytes.’ 8vo, 102 Illustrations, 21s.
History of British Mollusca and their Shells.By Professor ED. FORBES, F.R.S., &c. and SYLVANUS HANLEY, B.A., F.L.S. Illustrated by a figure of each known Animal and of all the Shells, engraved on 203 copper-plates. 4 vols. 8vo, £6 10s.; royal 8vo, with the plates coloured, £13.
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History of the British Marine Testaceous Mollusca.By WILLIAM CLARK. 8vo, 15s.
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Malacologia Monensis.A Catalogue of the Mollusca inhabiting the Isle of Man and the neighbouring Sea. By EDWARD FORBES. Post 8vo, 3s., Edinburgh, 1838.
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Manual of the Sea-Anemones commonly found on theEnglish Coast. By the Rev. GEORGE TUGWELL, Oriel College, Oxford. Post 8vo, with Coloured Illustrations, 7s.6d.
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“In this work there is a truthfulness of outline, an exquisite delicacy of pencilling, a brilliancy and transparency of colouring, that has rarely been equalled, and probably never surpassed.”—The President in his Address to the Entomological Society, 1856.
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Manual of British Butterflies and Moths.By H.T. STAINTON. 2 vols. 12mo, 10s.
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The British Ferns at one View.By BERTHOLD SEEMANN, Ph.D., F.L.S. An eight-page out-folding sheet, with descriptions of the Orders, Tribes, and Genera, and a Coloured figure of a portion of each species, 8vo, cloth, 6s.Flora of Cambridgeshire: or, A Catalogue of Plants found in the County of Cambridge, with References to former Catalogues, and the Localities of the Rarer Species. By C. C. BABINGTON, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. 12mo, with a Map, 7s.Manual of British Botany; containing the Flowering Plants and Ferns, arranged according to their Natural Orders. By C. C. BABINGTON, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. 12mo, the Fourth Edition, with many additions and corrections, 10s.6d., cloth.Weeds and Wild Flowers.By LADY WILKINSON. Post 8vo, with Coloured Engravings and Woodcuts, 10s.6d.Elementary Course of Botany; Structural, Physiological, and Systematic. With a brief Outline of the Geographical and Geological Distribution of Plants. By ARTHUR HENFREY, F.R.S., L.S., &c., Professor of Botany in King’s College, London. Illustrated by upwards of 500 Woodcuts. Post 8vo, 12s.6d.
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Vegetation of Europe, its Conditions and Causes.Foolscap 8vo, 5s.Principles of the Anatomy and Physiology of the Vegetable Cell.By HUGO VON MOHL. Translated, with the author’s permission, by ARTHUR HENFREY, F.R.S., &c. 8vo, with an Illustrative Plate and numerous Woodcuts, 7s.6d.Rudiments of Botany.A Familiar Introduction to the Study of Plants. With Illustrative Woodcuts. Second Edition, foolscap 8vo, 3s.6d.A Set of Six Coloured Diagrams; for Schools and Lectures. 15s.Thesaurus Capensis: or, Illustrations of the South African Flora; being Figures and brief descriptions of South African Plants, selected from the Dublin University Herbarium. By W. H. HARVEY, M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Botany in the University of Dublin, and Keeper of the Herbarium. 8vo, Vol. I., with 100 Plates, uncoloured, £1 1s.Flora Capensis; being a Systematic Description of the Plants of the Cape Colony, Caffraria, and Port Natal. By Professor HARVEY and Dr. SONDER. Vol. I. Ranunculaceæ to Connaraceæ, 8vo, 12s.Index Generum Algarum: or, A Systematic Catalogue of the Genera of Algæ, Marine and Freshwater: with an Alphabetical Key to all the Names and Synonyms. By Professor HARVEY. 8vo, sewed, 2s.6d.Manual of the British Marine Algæ, containing Generic and Specific Descriptions of all the known British Species of Sea-Weeds, with Plates to illustrate all the Genera. By Professor HARVEY. 8vo, £1 1s.; Coloured Copies, £1 11s.6d.Nereis Boreali-Americana; or, Contributions towards a History of the Marine Algæ of the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of North America. By Professor HARVEY. Royal 4to, with 50 Coloured Plates, £3 3s.History of British Forest-Trees.By PRIDEAUX JOHN SELBY, F.R.S.E., F.L.S., &c. Each species is illustrated by a portrait of some well-known or fine specimen, as a head-piece: the leaf, florification, seed-vessels, or other embellishments tending to make the volume ornamental or useful, are embodied in the text or inserted as tail-pieces. 8vo, with nearly 200 Illustrations, £1 8s.Manual Flora of Madeira and the adjacent Islands ofPorto Santo and the Dezertas. By R. T. LOWE, M.A. 12mo. Part I. Thalamifloræ, 3s.6d.Part II. in the press.Primitiæ et Novitiæ Faunæ et Floræ Maderæ et PortusSancti. Two Memoirs on the Ferns, Flowering Plants, and Land Shells of Madeira and Porto Santo. By R. T. LOWE, M.A. 12mo, 6s.6d., boards (150 copies printed).Growth of Plants in closely Glazed Cases.By N. B. WARD, F.R.S., F.L.S. Second Edition, Illustrated. Post 8vo, 5s.The Sea-Weed Collector’s Guide; containing plain Instructions for Collecting and Preserving; and a List of all the known Species and Localities in Great Britain. By J. COCKS, M.D. Foolscap 8vo, 2s.6d.Walks after Wild Flowers; or the Botany of the Bohereens. By RICHARD DOWDEN. Foolscap 8vo, 4s.6d.Terra Lindisfarnensis.The Natural History of the Eastern Borders. By GEORGE JOHNSTON, M.D., &c., &c. This volume embraces the Topography and Botany; and gives the popular Names and Uses of the Plants, and the Customs and Beliefs which have been associated with them. The chapter on the Fossil Botany of the district is contributed byGeorge Tate, F.G.S. Illustrated with a few Woodcuts and 15 Plates, 8vo, 10s.6d.History of British Ferns.By EDWARD NEWMAN. Comprising, under each Species, Figures, detailed Descriptions, an ample list of Localities, and minute Instructions for Cultivating. 8vo, 18s.Synopsis of the British Diatomaceæ; with Remarks on their Structure, Functions, and Distribution; and Instructions for Collecting and Preserving Specimens. By the Rev. WILLIAM SMITH. The Plates byTuffen West. In 2 vols. royal 8vo; Vol. I. 21s.; Vol. II. 30s.
Vegetation of Europe, its Conditions and Causes.Foolscap 8vo, 5s.
Principles of the Anatomy and Physiology of the Vegetable Cell.By HUGO VON MOHL. Translated, with the author’s permission, by ARTHUR HENFREY, F.R.S., &c. 8vo, with an Illustrative Plate and numerous Woodcuts, 7s.6d.
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History of British Forest-Trees.By PRIDEAUX JOHN SELBY, F.R.S.E., F.L.S., &c. Each species is illustrated by a portrait of some well-known or fine specimen, as a head-piece: the leaf, florification, seed-vessels, or other embellishments tending to make the volume ornamental or useful, are embodied in the text or inserted as tail-pieces. 8vo, with nearly 200 Illustrations, £1 8s.
Manual Flora of Madeira and the adjacent Islands ofPorto Santo and the Dezertas. By R. T. LOWE, M.A. 12mo. Part I. Thalamifloræ, 3s.6d.Part II. in the press.
Primitiæ et Novitiæ Faunæ et Floræ Maderæ et PortusSancti. Two Memoirs on the Ferns, Flowering Plants, and Land Shells of Madeira and Porto Santo. By R. T. LOWE, M.A. 12mo, 6s.6d., boards (150 copies printed).
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History of British Ferns.By EDWARD NEWMAN. Comprising, under each Species, Figures, detailed Descriptions, an ample list of Localities, and minute Instructions for Cultivating. 8vo, 18s.
Synopsis of the British Diatomaceæ; with Remarks on their Structure, Functions, and Distribution; and Instructions for Collecting and Preserving Specimens. By the Rev. WILLIAM SMITH. The Plates byTuffen West. In 2 vols. royal 8vo; Vol. I. 21s.; Vol. II. 30s.
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A Manual of Chemical Analysis(Qualitative). By A. B. NORTHCOTE, F.C.S., and ARTHUR H. CHURCH, F.C.S. Post 8vo, 10s.6d.Handbook of Chemical Manipulation.By C. GREVILLE WILLIAMS, late Principal Assistant in the Laboratories of the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Post 8vo, with very numerous Woodcut Illustrations, 15s.Elementary Course of Geology, Mineralogy, and Physical Geography.By DAVID T. ANSTED, M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S., &c., Consulting Mining Engineer, Honorary Fellow of King’s College, London, Lecturer on Mineralogy and Geology at the H.E.I.C. Mil. Sem. at Addiscombe, late Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. A Second Edition, post 8vo, with many Illustrations, 12s.The Ancient World.By Professor ANSTED. Second Edition, post 8vo, 10s.6d., with 149 Illustrations.“The work may be described as an outline of the history of vegetable and animal life upon the globe, from the early age when there were only sea-weeds and marine invertebrates as yet in existence, down to the era when the mammals received among them the king of species, Man. By his intimate acquaintance with the subject, and power of arrangement and description, Professor Ansted succeeds in producing a narration, which tells in its entire range like a romance.”—Manchester Examiner.Gold-Seeker’s Manual.By Professor ANSTED. Foolscap 8vo, 3s.6d.Geologist’s Text-Book.Chiefly intended as a Book of Reference for the Geological Student. By Professor ANSTED. Foolscap 8vo, 3s.6d.The Ground beneath us;its Geological Phases and Changes. Three Lectures on the Geology of Clapham and the neighbourhood of London generally. By JOSEPH PRESTWICH, F.R.S., F.G.S., &c. 8vo, 3s.6d.sewed.Geological Inquiry respecting the Water-bearing Strataof the Country around London, with reference especially to the Water Supply of the Metropolis, and including some Remarks on Springs. By JOSEPH PRESTWICH, F.G.S., &c. 8vo, with a Map and Woodcuts, 8s.6d.Manual of the Mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland.By ROBERT PHILIPS GREG, F.G.S., and WILLIAM G. LETTSOM. 8vo, with numerous Woodcuts, 15s.History of British Fossil Mammals and Birds.By Professor OWEN. This volume is designed as a companion to that by Professor Bell on the (Recent Mammalia) ‘British Quadrupeds and Cetacea.’ 8vo, with 237 Illustrations. £1 11s.6d., or large paper (royal 8vo), £3 3s.Description of the Skeleton of an Extinct Gigantic Sloth(Mylodon robustus). With Observations on the Osteology, Natural Affinities, and probable Habits of the Megatherioid Quadrupeds in general. By RICHARD OWEN, F.R.S., &c. 4to, £1 12s.6d.Memoirs of Hugh E. Strickland, M.A.,Deputy Reader of Geology in the University of Oxford. By SIR WILLIAM JARDINE, Bart.; with a selection from his Printed and other Scientific Papers. Royal 8vo, Illustrated by Maps, Geological Sections, Plates and Woodcuts, 36s.Omphalos.An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot. By P. H. GOSSE, F.R.S. The law of Prochronism in organic creation. Post 8vo, with 56 Illustrations on wood, 10s.6d.
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Handbook of Chemical Manipulation.By C. GREVILLE WILLIAMS, late Principal Assistant in the Laboratories of the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Post 8vo, with very numerous Woodcut Illustrations, 15s.
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“The work may be described as an outline of the history of vegetable and animal life upon the globe, from the early age when there were only sea-weeds and marine invertebrates as yet in existence, down to the era when the mammals received among them the king of species, Man. By his intimate acquaintance with the subject, and power of arrangement and description, Professor Ansted succeeds in producing a narration, which tells in its entire range like a romance.”—Manchester Examiner.
“The work may be described as an outline of the history of vegetable and animal life upon the globe, from the early age when there were only sea-weeds and marine invertebrates as yet in existence, down to the era when the mammals received among them the king of species, Man. By his intimate acquaintance with the subject, and power of arrangement and description, Professor Ansted succeeds in producing a narration, which tells in its entire range like a romance.”—Manchester Examiner.
Gold-Seeker’s Manual.By Professor ANSTED. Foolscap 8vo, 3s.6d.
Geologist’s Text-Book.Chiefly intended as a Book of Reference for the Geological Student. By Professor ANSTED. Foolscap 8vo, 3s.6d.
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Manual of the Mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland.By ROBERT PHILIPS GREG, F.G.S., and WILLIAM G. LETTSOM. 8vo, with numerous Woodcuts, 15s.
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Description of the Skeleton of an Extinct Gigantic Sloth(Mylodon robustus). With Observations on the Osteology, Natural Affinities, and probable Habits of the Megatherioid Quadrupeds in general. By RICHARD OWEN, F.R.S., &c. 4to, £1 12s.6d.
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