Natural History & Science

This is a traditionally strong area of interest for Sotheran's, with our unparalleled collection of John Gould ornithological lithographs. We maintain a selection of fine antiquarian bird books in stock, together with sought-after and scarce works in the areas of botany and zoology both British and foreign. We also specialise in books relating to Darwinism, evolution, genetics and human biology.

Sotherans has a long tradition of dealing with fine science books stretching back to 1906, when work began on our Bibliotheca Chemico-Mathematica. This exhaustive bibliography, which was published between 1921 and 1952, remains an important resource. We now stock books across a broad range of scientific subjects, including geology, evolutionary science, physics, medicine, astronomy, mathematics and technology. We also have a good stock of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society and offprints from scientific journals.

700 items
  • Writings and Drawings
    £70.00
    £70.00
  • Mr Babbage's Invention. Copies of the correspondence between the Lords Commissioners
    £3,500.00
    £3,500.00
  • Table of the logarithms of the natural numbers from 1 to
    £400.00
    £400.00
  • £80.00
    £80.00
  • Beytrage zu nüzlichem und vergnügendum Gebrauch under Verbesserung des Microscopii
    £950.00
    £950.00
  • Das zum Gebrauch leicht gemachte Microscopium
    £600.00
    £600.00
  • Le Microscope a la Portée de Tout le Monde, ou description
    £950.00
    £950.00
  • Scandinavian Shetland. An Ongoing Tradition
    £30.00
    £30.00
  • The Observer's Book of Commercial Vehicles
    £50.00
    £50.00
  • The Windswept Isles. Shetland and its People
    £25.00
    £25.00
  • £120.00
    £120.00
  • The population of Orkney 1755-1961
    £30.00
    £30.00
  • Darwin and Henslow. The growth of an idea. Letters 1831-1860
    £40.00
    £40.00
  • Picturesque Life in Shetland
    £50.00
    £50.00
  • Seventy Years' Fishing
    £50.00
    £50.00
  • The Observer's Tourist Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland
    £50.00
    £50.00
  • The Observer's Book of Show Jumping and Eventing
    £50.00
    £50.00
  • The Art of the Atlantic Salmon Fly
    £100.00
    £100.00
  • How To Work With The Microscope
    £300.00
    £300.00
  • Illuminated photo album of the English Lake District
    £7,500.00
    £7,500.00
  • The Observer's Book of British Birds
    £70.00
    £70.00
  • £700.00
    £700.00
  • A History of British Birds. Vol. I. containing the History and
    £700.00
    £700.00
  • A Memoir of Thomas Bewick, Written by Himself. Embellished by Numerous
    £350.00
    £350.00
  • A Supplement to the History of British Birds
    £300.00
    £300.00
  • History of British Birds
    £1,200.00
    £1,200.00
  • Memorial Edition of the Works, 5 vols
    £1,200.00
    £1,200.00
  • £800.00
    £800.00
  • The Wild Bull of Chillingham
    £2,000.00
    £2,000.00
  • Wild Flowers of the Channel Islands
    £15.00
    £15.00
  • £80.00
    £80.00
  • Angling for Pike: a Practical and Comprehensive Work on the Most
    £200.00
    £200.00