Aurelian, Signed (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. 279 pages, several plates & illustrations. Original turquoise cloth, gilt lettered. Ex library. Signed by Paul Bidwell, British archaeologist to front endpaper. Contents clean & bright. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: Varied Books; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good -. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. First Hardback Edition. 280 x 215mm. pp. 432. Eglish text. Signed first hardback edition of 'The Aurelian Legacy: British Butterflies and Their Collectors'. Signe in blue pen to title page reading 'with best wishes. Michael Salmon. 2008'. Colour and black and white illustrations. Bound in original blue boards. Housed in pictorial dust jacket. A few small marks to text block. Boards clean. Dust jacket shows some light bumps and some areas of fading to edges. Binding strong. No underlining. See images. 1.66kg. Extra postage overseas. SIGNED.

Condition: Very Good. 432, 42 col plates, 162 b/w photos and text figs. . HB. Very good in d/w. From the library of British lepidopterist, Barry Goater (1930-2022), with his bookplate. Signed by the author. This book brings to life the past two hundred years of butterfly study, with photos of many early lepidopterists and their equipment. [9780946589401].

Condition: Fine. xxvii, 428, 8 colour plates, 138 b/w photos. 283x215mm. HB. Fine in d/w (in removable protective sleeve). Signed by both authors. Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies (this copy no. 271). Illustrated by Tim Bernhard. Over 145 articles, letters and notes that look back to the Great Cornhill Fire of 1748 - a disaster which almost destroyed the Aurelians and their fledgling Society - and then forward to the Victorian era and the early 20th Century. This anthology includes some of the more extraordinary and entertaining contributions to the British entomological literature of the past 250 years. Among the authors included are: Charles Dickens, J.W. Tutt, P.B.M. Allan, Margaret Fountaine, F.W. Frohawk, Baron C.G.M. de Worms, A. Maitland Emmet, Charles G. Barrett, Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge. This book is a sequel to The Aurelian Legacy. [9780953723614].

Softcover staple-bound, 36 pages; very good condition, warmly inscribed on next to last page; "To Barbara. ", dated 2008 and signed "Michelle'; no other internal marks. From the library of MOMA curator Barbara London. Foreign shipping may be extra.

pp.xxvii, 428 with 8 colour plates, plus b/w. photos. and figs. to text. 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw., just lightly rubbed to extremitites. Limited edition this being copy No. 446 of a print-run of just 1,000 copies. Title page signed by all four contributors - the two authors Michael Salmon and Peter Edwards, Alec Harmer (who provided additional research and material) and Tim Bernhard (the illustrator). A great copy. Through articles, letters and notes gleaned from British entomological journals of the past 200 years, this anthology celebrates the joys and frustrations experienced by an eclectic bunch of amateur butterfly hunters.

CARMAN, Bliss. BY THE AURELIAN WALL AND OTHER ELEGIES. Boston: Lamson, Wolffe, 1898. 12mo., decorative green cloth. First Edition. First state of binding with the Lamson & Wolffe imprint at base of spine. [BAL 2640]. Signed by Carman on a special bookplate, tipped to the front pastedown, created by Paul Lemperly for his personal book collection. Lemperly was a founder of the Rowfant Club and the person who gave the club its name. Very Good (few light stains covers). $225.00.