Lot 184 , ° Wood, Rev. J.G. - The Illustrated Natural History. 3 vols. engraved illus. throughout; old gilt-decorated red half calf and marbled boards, panelled spines with green labels, roy.8vo. (?1860) - 63

° ° Wood, Rev. J.G. - The Illustrated Natural History. 3 vols. engraved illus. throughout; old gilt-decorated red half calf and marbled boards, panelled spines with green labels, roy.8vo. (?1860) - 63; Walton, Izaak & Cotton, Charles - The Compleat Angler. Edited with an introduction by Richard Le Gallienne. num. f-page and other illus. (by Edmund H. New), frontis., publisher's pictorial cloth, gilt top, roy. 8vo. 1897; sold with Bowdler Sharpe's Handbook of British Birds (4 vols, 1894-97); Lowe's Our Native Ferns (2 vols, 1865-69) and Michelet, Jules - The Insect (1875) (11)
£80-100

Condition:
Mostly clean, bird vol with some 6 illus. coloured-in; Walton - cover sl. marked, sl. spotting at end; Sharpe - plts. clean, spotting on guards and marked amount text (esp. vs. 1 & 2); Michelet - gen. good - save e/ps., title and margin browning (pp.252-61), gilt-ruled calf, dec and panelled spine, ge.; Lowe - 79 col. plts., gilt-ruled red calf, panelled spines; some spotting (text and plts).

Sold for £360