ZOOLOGICAL PAPERS -- [JARDINE, Sir William (1800-1874)]. A collection of 14 pamphlets, an autograph letter and a drawing, collected by William Jardine and bound in 19th-century calf (4° 277 x 210mm, rebacked with original spine laid down), including: George JOHNSTON, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Recent Zoophytes found on the Coast of North Durham. Newcastle: 1832. 6 lithographic plates; J. F. STEPHENS, A Description of Chiasognathus Grantii. Cambridge: 1831. 2 engraved plates printed in colours; P. J. SELBY, A Catalogue of the Birds...in.. Northumberland and Durham. Newcastle: 1831; Dr TILESIUS, On the Mammoth or Fossil Elephant, found in the ice, at the mouth of the River Lena, in Siberia. London: 1819; and 9 further papers, reports, extracts or proceedings of societies, on ornithology, conchology etc, by Selby, Jenyns and others; List of the Linnean Society of London. 1830. Provenance: Sir William Jardine (presentation inscriptions from two authors, ownership inscription to front endpaper and one title); with a drawing of a bird by Sir William Jardine, in pencil, and a letter to Jardine from S. W. Henslow, sending a description of 'a superb Beetle'.