Lot 132 , Natural History. Wood, J. G., The Illustrated Natural History; Gosse, P. H., A Naturalist’s Rambles on the Devonshire Coast; three works by Hugh Miller; and Stanley, Edward, A Familiar History of Birds. Nine volumes. (9)

Natural History. Wood, J. G., The Illustrated Natural History; Gosse, P. H., A Naturalist’s Rambles on the Devonshire Coast; three works by Hugh Miller; and Stanley, Edward, A Familiar History of Birds. Nine volumes. (9) Wood, J. G. The Illustrated Natural History, London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1862–63, three volumes, comprising Mammalia, Birds and Reptiles, Fishes, Molluscs, &c., illustrated after Wolf, Zwecker, Weir, Coleman, Wood and others, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel; Gosse, Philip Henry, A Naturalist’s Rambles on the Devonshire Coast, London: John Van Voorst, 1853, with 28 plates; Miller, Hugh, Sketch-Book of Popular Geology, Edinburgh: Thomas Constable and Co., 1859, The Old Red Sandstone, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1861, and Foot-Prints of the Creator, Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1861; Stanley, Edward, A Familiar History of Birds; Their Nature, Habits, and Instincts, second edition, London: John W. Parker, 1838, two volumes.

Various decorative leather bindings. Eight volumes with Hamilton armorial bookplates; all with Kenilworth ownership/library stamps.
£100-150

Condition:
Bindings with rubbing, fading and wear, with some scuffing and cracking to spines and lettering-pieces. Wood Vol. I with front board loose at the hinge. Contents with intermittent spotting and marks. Ownership/library stamps to title-pages.