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(Natural History) 11 Vols. Natural History: Dalyell, Sir John Graham The Powers of the Creator Displayed in the Creation; or, Observations on Life amidst the Various Forms of the Humbler Tribes of Animated Nature... London: John van Voorst, 1851-1853-1858. First edition. 3 volumes, 4to, modern green cloth; corners bumped. With engraved black and white portrait + 144 mostly hand-colored plates. Title page of vol. 1 detached but present. Scattered light foxing. Modern ink ownerships on title page. * Williamson, William Crawford On Recent Forminifera of Great Britian. London: for the Ray Society, 1858. First edition. Folio, modern quarter black morocco and blue cloth, gilt. With 7 lithographic plates (several partly hand colored). Scattered light foxing, some dampstaining in blank fore edge margins of plates. * Hudson, C. T.; Gosse, P. H. The Rotifera; or Wheel-Animalcules. London: Longmans, Green, 1886-1889. 3 volumes, 4to, contemporary three-quarters morocco; scuffed, joints and extremities often rubbed. With 38 plates (35 double page, many colored), figures in text. Scattered light foxing to plates and text. Manuscript index at back of vol. 2. * Alder, Joshua; Hancock, Albany. The British Tunicata, an unfinished monograph. London: The Ray Society, 1905-1907-1912. 3 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, gilt; some wear and splitting at joints. With frontispiece portraits + 66 plates, figures in text. Internally generally clean. * Remy, Jules. Champignons et Truffes. Paris, 1861. 12mo, contemporary morocco-backed boards; worn and rubbed. With 12 color lithographic plates. Internally dampstained and foxed, scrawl on blanks.