Books, Natural History – Yarrell (William, FLS, FZS, 1784-18...

Books, Natural History – Yarrell (William, FLS, FZS, 1784-1856), A History of British Birds, 3 vols., 3rd edn., London, John van Voorst, 1856, 8vo, 55o wood engravings, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate Tremayne of Heligan, finely bound with gilt patterned foldovers, gilt lines to black boards, 5 raised bands top spines, with gilt patterning and titles lid foxing to outer pages), Vol. I xxxv + 614pp, frontis engr. of author with facsimile signature, armorial second title, MS inscr. to fly, ‘J and M C T/from/H GH T and C J T/November 1860’; Vol. II: 702pp, illus. to 2nd title; Vol. III: 679pp, armorial to second title; also, Yarrell (William, FLS, FZS 1784-1856), A History of British Fishes, 3rd edn., ed. Sir John Richardson, CB, FRS, 2 vols., London, John van Voort, 8vo, 553 wood engravings, bound en suite with the preceding, Vol. I xxxviii + 675pp, MS inscr. to fly as Volume I of British Birds (qv) but with ‘our wedding present’ added below in pencil, armorial second title, Vol. II: 670pp, armorial to second title (5) ***The donor of these volumes as a wedding present was Henry Hawkins Tremayne JP of Sydenham, Devon (1830-1894) and his wife Charlotte Jane (née Buller of Morval); the recipient was their elder brother John Tremayne MP, DL, JP (1825-1901) of Heligan House (today famed for the ‘Lost Gardens’) who, on 13th November 1860 married Hon. Mary Charlotte Martha Vivian, a daughter of 2nd Lord Vivan of Glyn and of Truro. The descendants of their elder son, John still own the estate. The were doubtless originally part of the library at Heligan. ***The armorial of the second titles pages of some of these volumes are in fact fantasy ones, duly incorporating fish, birds etc. and endorsed with pious mottoes.

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