Geology, botany, palaeontology Collection of works from the library of Richard G. West including: Forbes, James D. Travels through the Alps of Savoy and Other Parts of the Pennine Chain, with Observations on the Phenomena of Glaciers. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1843. First edition, large 8vo, contemporary half calf, 13 lithographic plates (several tinted), 2 maps (one folding), spotting to frontispiece, title-page and folding map; Idem. Occasional Papers on the Theory of Glaciers. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1859. First edition, 8vo, contemporary diced tan calf, tinted lithographic frontispiece numbered VI*, 9 lithographic plates numbered I-IX (collation not established); Lewis, Henry Carvill. Papers and Notes on the Glacial Geology of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half pigskin, 10 maps (several folding); Woodward, Samuel. An Outline of the Geology of Norfolk. Norwich: John Stacy, 1833. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, rebacked, hand-coloured folding lithographic map as frontispiece, similar folding plate of geological cross-sections, 6 lithographic plates, bookplate of botanist and geologist Clement Reid (1853-1916); Wood, Searles V. A Monograph of the Crag Mollusca, or, Descriptions of Shells from the Middle and Upper Tertiaries of the East of England. Vol. I. Univalves [Vol. II. Bivalves; Supplement ... Univalves and Bivalves; Second Supplement; Third Supplement]. London: for the Palaeontographical Society, 1848. First edition, 4 volumes in 3 (Second and Third Supplements issued as volume 4), 4to, contemporary half calf, inscribed 'Dr. Milne Edwards, from S. V. Wood, with Compts', numerous engraved plates; Hales, Stephen. Statistical Essays: containing Vegetable Staticks; or, an Account of some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables. London: W. Innys [and others], 1731. Second edition (first published in 1727), 8vo, contemporary calf, 19 engraved plates, bookplate of botanist Arthur George Tansley (1871-1955), rubbed, front joint cracked, occasional light browning, initial blank (with contemporary gift inscription) loose); Bates, Henry Walter. The Naturalist on the River Amazons. London: John Murray, 1864. Second edition, 8vo, original green pictorial cloth gilt, frontispiece, wood-engraved plates (counted in pagination and register), folding map; and 16 others, including Lyell, The Antiquity of Man, 1863 (third edition), Curtis, Practical Observations on the British Grasses, 1812 (fifth edition), Loudon, An Encyclopaedia of Plants, 1829, and similar (25)

Provenance: Professor Richard G. West FRS FGS (1926-2020), British botanist, geologist and palaeontologist, many works with his bookplate.