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1853033929London: H. G. BOHN 1853. Book. Illus. by Stewart James Hope; Edward Lear. Selby P. J. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 8vo 19 x 13 cm. "With Considerable Additions On Structure Migration And Economy Compiled From Various Sources By H. G. Adams. Incorporating The Whole Of Sweet's British Warblers"; pp. xvi 500; 38 fine b/w engraved plates after James Hope Stewart Edwear Lear Selby with further full page and in-text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with extensive blind stamped decoration gilt lettering to the spine very good with light wear only spine slightly faded. Contents clean and tight original publisher's catalogue endpapers no inscriptions. A very good copy scarce in this condition. H. G. BOHN Hardcover
1881003646<p>London: Longmans Green and Co. 1881. Good/Pictorial boards. 8vo. 220 x 140mm 548 pages. Chromopxylographs maps woodcuts. Book condition: Good clean gilt decorated and titled boards not faded tight binding not inscribed. Overall pretty good copy for it's age! Comments: A comprehensive study of the Arctic and Antarctic polar regions: animals birds marine life Iceland Westman Islands Norwegian coast Spitzbergen Bear Island Jan Meyen Novaya Zemlya The Lapps Siberia Kamtschatka Alaska Hudson's Bay Indian tribes Antarctica Patagonia and much more. Some super illustrations!. Hard Cover. Good/Pictorial Board. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.</p> Longmans, Green and Co. hardcover
1892036071London: Gurney & Jackson 1892. Book. Illus. by G.E Lodge Victor Prout. Near Fine. Hardcover. Second Edition Revised. 8vo. Pp. 2 xxvi 271 4; large fold out map in text and plate illustrations throughout by Lodge and others. Green cloth binding very good and bright light rubbing to joints. Contents clean and tight no foxing original yellow end papers. Freddie Spencer Chapman's copy with his pencil initials and date to the front free end paper. A clean near fine copy. F. S. Chapman needs little introduction - war time hero and ornithologisht with an extraordinary story: for over three years during the second world war he "blew up trains bridges and enemy soldiers in the jungles of Malaya all the while studying birdlife and sending home seeds". Gurney & Jackson Hardcover
1881012044Morrisville NY: Greene Smith Museum Printed at the Madison Observer Office 1881. Ex-Library. VG. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Brown cloth lettered in gilt on front panel. Deaccessioned from non-circulating museum library nominally marked/stamped clear-coated spine panel slightly age-toned with handwritten call number on lower portion. Modest shelf wear lightly rubbed corners and spine extremities. 162 pp. Clean interior firm binding. Very scarce. Greene Smith Museum [Printed at the Madison Observer Office] Hardcover
1895052720Philadelphia: David McKay Co 1895. 278pp index bw ills. Pictorial brown cloth. Very slight flecking to rear cover slightest of edge wear to covers light even toning to page edges. A most attractive copy. This edition with additions and a chapter on American incubators included for the first time. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/None as Issued. 8vo. David McKay Co Hardcover
1885021740Upper Norwood: Burdett & Co. 1885. Illustrated with 13 engraved plates 12mo pp 109 plus local shop advertisements front and rear very clean internally brown cloth very slightly worn. RARE. From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter with his stamp on the front endpaper. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Burdett & Co. Hardcover
1895038446London: Cassel and Company Limited 1895. Book. Very Good. Green Cloth. First Edition. Large 8vo approx. 17 x 24cm. pp. xx 368 b/w photographic frontispiece with tissue guard further b/w plates throughout. Original green cloth binding with gilt stamped vignette of gannet on nest to the front board gilt titling and decoration to the spine. Binding very good with a little general wear and rubbing cloth a little faded. Contents clean and tight just the endpapers a little spotted hinges good and strong text and plates clean. A very good copy. Cassel and Company, Limited Hardcover
1892003532London: R. H. Porter 1892. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp 329. "With 174 b/w illustrations whereof 140 are original drawings" Original green cloth binding with gilt lettering a little edge-wear a few marks and general rubbing. Contents clean and tight no inscriptions or foxing. A good to very good copy of this rare Mivart work. R. H. Porter Hardcover
1869036613London: John Van Voorst 1869. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo 19 x 13 cm. pp x 643; some pages remain uncut. Green cloth hardback binding very good and bright gilt bright contents clean and tight no inscriptions attractive bookplate belonging to Robert Washington Oates no foxing. A near fine first edition copy. Robert Washington Oates a relative of Frank and Lawrence Oates was an extremely wealthy man and like Frank Robert Washington Oates was a fan of natural history; so when he heard in 1954 that there were plans to turn Gilbert White's home into a museum but the project was struggling financially; Oates stepped in purchased The Wakes and helped to fund the Museum and donating his natural history library and the Oates family collection. John Van Voorst Hardcover
1889036460London: Gurney and Jackson 1889. Book. Illus. by Chapman Abel. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Pp. xii 286 2 pages adverts; numerous fine pen and ink drawings and in-text illustrations throughout by Abel Chapman. Original blue cloth titled in gilt on spine. Binding very good and bright light wear only to the top and bottom of the spine and corners. Content clean and tight original brown endpapers wear along the hinge unmarked but for the pencil signature of F. S. Chapman no relative but the explorer and author also signed in pencil to the half title to the reverse of the front free endpaper no foxing no inscriptions. A very good copy. BIOG. Frederick Spencer Chapman DSO & Bar ED 1907 - 1971 was a British Army officer and World War II veteran most famous for his exploits behind enemy lines in Japanese occupied Malaya. His medals include the following: the Distinguished Service Order and Bar the Polar Medal Gill Memorial Medal Mungo Park Medal and the Lawrence of Arabia Memorial Medal. He joined many expeditions. Chapman was attached as "ski expert and naturalist" to Gino Watkins' 1930 -31 British Arctic Air Route Expedition. Expedition members included John Rymill and Augustine Courtauld. He also joined Watkins' subsequent fatal Greenland Expedition of 1932-33 which was led by Rymill after Watkins' death. Chapman experienced cold of such intensity that he lost all his finger and toe nails. Gurney and Jackson Hardcover
1866036070London: John Van Voorst 1866. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp. xvi 284 tinted frontispiece plate with tissue guard. Green cloth binding near fine gilt bright bright gilt vignette to the front board. Contents clean and tight brown endpapers unmarked a few spots to edge of frontispiece margin otherwise unmarked. A very clean near fine first edition. John Van Voorst Hardcover
1898036527London: Longmans Green & Co. 1898. Book. Illus. by Bryon Hook Photographs from Nature R. B. Lodge. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Pp. xiv 339 40 ; b/w frontispiece of a crow by Bryon Hook further black and white plates and illustrations all present and correct; int-text illustrations. Original green cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine and a gilt vignette to the front board very goood with a little general wear. Contents clean and tight original black end papers tipped in before the half title is a sheet with a newspaper extract on Hudson's death dated 1922. A very good copy. Longmans, Green & Co. Hardcover
1894037149London: Gurney & Jackson 1894. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp. 92 4. Green cloth binding very good. Contents clean and tight original pale yelllow coated endpapers no inscriptions a little spotting to first few pages. A very good first edition copy. Bibliographic note: the last four pages are the publisher's catalogue which lists various books on birds and natural history published by Gurney & Jackson arranged under the titles "Books of Local Observation on Birds" "Other Books about Birds" An Illustrated Manual of British Birds by Howard Saunders" and "Standard Works on British Natural History". Gurney & Jackson Hardcover
1858033219London: Lovell Reeve 1858 A very good copy of the 1st edition in the original decorative cloth binding with 20 hand coloured plates. Part of Lovell Reeve's Popular Natural History series where a number of authors were chosen to introduce their subjects to young people in a way that would give a good foundation while inspiring them to study further. This copy is in the original binding which is very bright and clean. The gilt decoration on the front board is slightly dulled. Spine ends have light pulling and there is light wear to corners. Contents complete with hand coloured frontispiece and 19 further plates. 1 page ad for the Literary Gazette at the rear. There is an ink inscription at the front free endpaper. Top and side page edges rough with the occasional very small edge tear. Contents are clean with light spotting which occasionally affects plates. Light marking to endpapers. Lovell Reeve hardcover
1846034290London: Longman Brown Green and Longmans 1846. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Third Edition. 10 x 16cm. Pp. vii 482. title page and frontispiece plate. Woodcut illustrations by the author. bound in leather highly decorative spine with title labels and gilt detail joints firm. All edges marbled. Contents clean and tight marbled endpapers bookplate to the front pastedown name to the reverse of the front free endpaper otherwise clean no inscriptions. A very good copy. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans Hardcover
1895020567Edinburgh: David Douglas 1895. Two volumes. Illustrated large ocyavo pp xxii ii 306; 309 publisher's catalogue 18 pages a folding map at the rear in good condition slight age-toning to the page margins slight adhesion damage to the front endpapers of the second volume otherwise very good internally green cloth very slightly worn the spines very slightly faded the upper cover of volume two is rather marked and blotched. The Oates Library copy with the bookplate of Robert Washington Oates and his blind-stamp on the front endpapers also the blind-stamp of Durrant House Bournemouth and the small Bibliotheca Oatesiana stamp on the half titles and the last page. The first volume also has the earlier armorial bookplte of R.D. Jackson. First Edition. Cloth. Good. David Douglas Hardcover
1894036187London: Gurney & Jackson 1894. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp. 92 4. Green cloth binding very good. Contents clean and tight original pale yelllow coated endpapers no inscriptions. A very good first edition copy the best we have seen. Bibliographic note: the last four pages are the publisher's catalogue which lists various books on birds and natural history published by Gurney & Jackson arranged under the titles "Books of Local Observation on Birds" "Other Books about Birds" An Illustrated Manual of British Birds by Howard Saunders" and "Standard Works on British Natural History". Gurney & Jackson Hardcover
1889e1035Edinburgh: David Douglas. G: in good condition without dust jacket. Corners bumped. 1889. First Edition. Blue hardback cloth cover. 220mm x 150mm 9" x 6". xii 334pp. ads. Folding map in colour to front ; additional b/w line drawings within the text. . David Douglas hardcover
1890033859Chelmsford: Edmund Durrant et al 1890. Book. Illus. by Whymper Charles. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Inscribed by the author to a slip tipped on to the front free end paper "A. M. McAldowie Esq.re M.D. KC with the Author's compts July 1984" Very large bookplate stamped Ex. Libris A. M. McAldowie to the front paste-down. Alexander Morison McAldowie - Scottish physician folklore expert and ornithologist author of The Birds of Staffordshire 1893 engraved bookplate of F. C. S. N. The Daltry Library to the verso of the front free end-paper; pp. viii 302 6 - adverts; lithographic frontispiece plate with original tissue guard after Charles Whymper 2 b/w plates of plans of decoys with hand colouring in outline further full-page engravings of decoys; each bird species illustrated with a woodcut after those in Yarrell a few specially drawn by G. E. Lodge and several from other sources; list of subscribers. Original red cloth hardback binding with black lettering very good with a little light wear spine a little faded. Contents clean and tight no inscriptions. A very good copy. Much more than the usual avifauna with an excellent collection of biographies of the principal Essex ornithologists a chapter on wild-fowl decoys and wild-fowling in Essex plus chapter on Hawks and Hawking in Essex. Essex Field Club Special Memoirs - vol. II. Edmund Durrant et al Hardcover
1853033269<p>London : Reeve and Co 1853 A good copy of the 2nd edition in the original decorative cloth binding with 20 hand coloured plates. Popular British Ornithology was part of Reeve's Popular Natural History series which was produced to give young students a proper grounding in natural history subjects. The binding is sound and clean. The spine is faded with light pulling to the ends. Boards have some mottling to the cloth but the gilt decoration on the front board is bright. There are a couple of small dents in the side edge of the back board and 2 slightly darker scuffs on the front board. There is some splitting at the front endpaper joint but the book is sound. Contents are in very good clean condition with light toning and occasional spotting to page edges. The plate list is slightly confusing because the frontispiece is not numbered and plate 14 is placed earlier than it should be.</p> Reeve and Co hardcover
1898038619London: R. H. Porter 1898. Book. Illus. by H. Gronvold & H. Goodchild. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo 21.5 x 14.5 cm. This collection of 18 monthly parts no duplicates includes: vol IV no. 48 October 1898; vol. VIII no. 6 April 1902; New Series vol 1 no. 1 November 1902 no. 4 February 1903 no. 6 April 1904 no. 7 May 1903 no. 8 June 1903 no. 9 July 1903 no. 10 August 1903; New series vol. II no. 10 August 1904; new series vol. III no. 2 December 1904; third series vol 1 no. 7 May 1910; third series vol. 2 no. 2 December 1910; third series vol. III no. 5 March 1912; vol IV no. 4 February 1913 no. 5 March 1913; third series vol. V no. 1 November 1913 & no. 2 December 1913. With 10 exquisite hand-coloured lithographic plates mainly by H. Gronvold further chromolithographic plates b/w illustrations and photographic plates. Original printed wrappers generally good a few marked the wrappers to the two earliest parts are chipped and detached. Contents generally clean. A good collection of odd issues some scarce and with selection of wonderful hand-coloured plates. R. H. Porter Paperback
1893033264<p>Washington: U S Department of Agriculture 1893 A good copy of the 1st edition in the original cloth binding with 26 coloured plates. The binding is sound and bright with gilt titles to spine and textured cloth boards. There is some pulling to spine ends and light wear to corners. The back board has 4 tiny spot marks and a slightly paler area at the top close to the spine. The contents are complete with 26 coloured plates as per the plate listing which places plate 26 before plates 24 and 25. The text paper and endpapers are lightly toned and there is some spotting to the foredge which is occasionally visible internally at the page edge - including plate pages. The plates are tissue-guarded - the guard to plate 9 has small loss from a side edge. There is small stain at the bottom gutter edge which is visible at the rear endpapers and on plates 1 24 and 25. This does not affect the images. A sliver of text surface from p 96 has attached itself to the back of plate 14 - this affects some words but it is possible to work out what they are from what remains. Please enquire if you would like to see additional images.</p> U S Department of Agriculture hardcover
1889021772Oxford at The Clarendon Press 1889. With a charming hand-coloured frontispiece of an Alpine Chough by Seth Lister Mosley octavo pp viii 217 publisher's catalogue 16 pages a folding map at the rear in very good condition very clean internally blue cloth the slightest of bruising to the corners otherwise in extremely bright condition; apart from a slight wrinkling at the head of the frontispiece and slight blotching to the endpapers it would be difficult to find a better copy. From the library of Robert Washington Oates with his bookplate. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Oxford at The Clarendon Press Hardcover
1806016790Edinburgh: James Ballantyne & Co. 1806. Small octavo pp 7 5 248 top edge gilt other edges untrimmed some pages slightly dusty internally but generally in very good condition bound in a late nineteenth century quarter morocco and pebbled cloth gilt decorated spine with raised bands. An excellent copy. The Oates-Selborne copy with the bookplate of Robert Washington Oates; the library was later gifted to the Gilbert White Museum in 1955. Rev. James Grahame 1765 - 1811 was a Scottish poet whose poems are full of quiet observation of country sights expressed in graceful verse. The Birds of Scotland exemplifys both ornithological knowledge and descriptive ingenuity and ease. First Edition. Quarter leather. Very Good. James Ballantyne & Co. Hardcover
1871L0482aaLondon: John van Voorst. G : in good condition. Some corner and edge wear with wear to outer joints of volume one. 1871. 4th edition. Blue hardback cloth cover. Gilt to spine. 230mm x 150mm 9" x 6". xii 646pp; vii 494pp; xvi 684pp; viii 531pp. Illustrated with 564 wood-engravings. Published: 1871-1874 Heavy set extra shipping needed for overseas. . John van Voorst hardcover
