(Natural History, Colour Plates), 'Lloyd's Natural History',...

Hammer

£250

(Natural History, Colour Plates), 'Lloyd's Natural History', 1896-97, fourteen volumes, all edited R. Bowdler Sharpe, each with numerous colour lithograph plates, comprising: 'A Hand-Book to the Order Lepidoptera. Butterflies; Butterflies & Moths', 1896-97, 5 volumes, 158 plates, of which 156 colour (of which 2 double page), plates collated complete/as called for, uniform original cloth gilt, Forbes: 'A Hand-Book to the Primates. Monkeys', 1896-97, 2 volumes, 41 colour litho plates + 8 folding maps, plates collated complete as called for, orig. cloth gilt (worn, vol II lacks majority of backstrip), plus 'A Handbook to the Birds of Great Britain', 2 vols, 'A Handbook to the Game Birds', 2 vols, '...Marsupialia and Monotremata', '...British Mammalia', '...Carnivora. Part I. Cats, Civets, and Mungooses', each with numerous colour litho plates, all with ownership signatures of one W.E. Mayes at front, this possibly William Edward Mayes (1861-1952), painter from Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, who mainly painted the Norfolk Broads, in the style of fellow Broadlands painter Stephen John Batchelder; together with an early 19th Century juvenile Natural History title with engraved plates, entitled 'The Elements of Natural History...for the Use of Schools and Young Persons', 1811, 6th edition, by William Mavor, contemporary calf gilt (15)