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1959004198Oliver & Boyd 1959. The Piratical and Predatory Habits of Birds. Color and b&w plates photos ills. index 230pp. Ocassinal foxing mostly limited to first and last several pages. Nice dust jacket has a spine chip and light edge wear some foxing unclipped. The color plates are mostly by G.E. Lodge. Fifth Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Oliver & Boyd Hardcover
1967j6768cLondon: Collins. VG : in very good condition with dust jacket. Jacket with two inch tear at lower edge of front fold. Minor impact at top edge of fep of a paper clip. 1967. First Edition. Black hardback cloth cover. 210mm x 150mm 8" x 6". 191pp. . Collins hardcover
1931036261New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. 1931. Book. Illus. by G.E. Lodge L.A. Fuertes A Thorburn C.R. Knight. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 20cm x 27cm. Complete in two volumes. Volume 1 pp. xxviii 257; 34 colour and b/w illustrations by Lodge Thorburn and others. Volume II pp. 309 inc. index 29 colour and black and white illustrations. Original green hardback binding very good the spines of both appear slightly mottled and faded with a little general wear. Contents clean and tight attractive bookplate from the library of Eric Hosking tot he front pastedowns a little toning to the endpapers otherwise unmarked no inscriptions. A very good set with an interesting provenance.Eric Hosking OBE Hon FRPS FBIPP 1909-1991 was widely acknowledged as one of the world's most eminent natural history photographers "Perhaps the most famous bird photographer ever to have lived" Gemma Padley. He was pioneering and developed new techniques especially the use of flash photography and automatic shutter release technology which enabled him to photograph birds at night and freeze birds in flight for the first time. Famously when just 28 he lost an eye to a tawny owl while climbing up to a hide in rural Wales the event which inspired the ingeneous title of his autobiography "An Eye for a Bird" 1970. Over his exceptionally long career he photographed over 1800 species and his pictures have appeared in some 1000 books including the popular New Naturalist series of which he was photographic editor. Hosking was not only a photographer of birds but also a highly knowledgeable ornithologist. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. Hardcover
195019770AB1950. o.J. ca. 1950. 125 10 cm. 8 drawings coloured with aquatint and partly heightned in white with the monogram HS below the drawing the name of the bird in pencil. Mounted on cardboard. Very detailed and decorative drawings of different birds like Storck Brown Owl Song Trush Great White Egret Golden Eagel and others. All drawings with some details like the eggs or the young birds some details of the bird.etc. 'All drawings with the monogram HS and the name of the bird. Probably designs for a planned publication in a book. unknown
1908d0720cHull: Brumby and Clarke Ltd. G : in good condition without dust jackets Covers rubbed and lightly marked. Wear to cloth along corners. Inner hinges cracked. Scattered foxing. Teg. 1908. Reprint. Blue hardback cloth cover with brown cloth spine. 300mm x 250mm 12" x 10". 210pp; 216pp. 107 chromolithographic plates of birds by H. Grönvold and 8 of eggs by F.W. Frohawk. Heavy book extra shipping needed for overseas. . Brumby and Clarke Ltd hardcover
1925035656London: Taylor and Francis 1925. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Chihli Shantung Kiangsu Anhwei Kiangsi Checkiang Fohkien and Kwangtung Provinces. Volume 1 in original parts I IIIII IV missing part V. Bindings; paper covers very good with a little wear to edges spines toned. Contents clean and tight some pages uncut edges rubbed with few short closed tears b/w plates to the rear of each part. A very good run of this scarce title in original parts. Taylor and Francis Hardcover
1953sts28aLondon and New York: Collins and Van Nostrand. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Some off-setting and light foxing to endpapers. 1953. Limited Edition 2000. Orange hardback half cloth cover on marble papered boards. 500mm x 340mm 20" x 13". viii 120pp. 16 colour and 23 b/w plates including Audubon Gould and de Buffon. Of 2000 copies printed on Gelderland mill paper. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . Collins and Van Nostrand hardcover
1977018589Boston: David R. Godine 1977. HEAVY. xx 406pp index bibliography bvw line drawings and photographs 17 distribution maps 41 color plates inc frontis. Or ivory cloth flecked with brown with red leather spine and corners ie 1/2 leather with titles in gilt to spine presented in sturdy cloth covered slipcase with red leather highlights at head and foot of open edge patterned endpapers. Edition limited to 400 copies of which this #298 signed by both authors and numbered on limitation page colophon. Some toning/foxing to slipcase and also the cloth of the rear cover otherwise a very clean fresh copy. A narrow strip of color on the front free endpaper has been abraded in the removel of the previous owners name. This copy lacks the monochrome lithograph as is so often the case. An impressive in both size 35.5 x 26 x 5cm and content monograph of the Rallidae or rails of the world. The full page color plates are spectacular and the scholarly text is well researched. An additional chapter on the fossil species rounds out this important volume. Signed by Authors. First Numbered Limited Signed Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Slipcase. Illus. by Lansdowne J. Fenwick. Folio. David R. Godine Hardcover
1959035373London: British Ornithologist's Union 1959. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo 18 x 25.5 cm. Uniformally bound in the publisher's bright red cloth binding gilt vignette of an Ibis to the front board with some blind stamped detail. Bindings are unmarked with bright gilt lettering to the spines corners are a little bumped/rounded binding firm. Contents clean and tight endpapers unmarked no foxing. A great deal of interesting article photographic plates and charts within. A clean and little read run of eight volumes 1959 to 1964 inclusive. Haevy set to a little surcharge may be required to cover the cost of using a courier service please enquire for more details. British Ornithologist's Union Hardcover
1991h1381Auckland: Osborne Editions. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket as issued. 1991. Limited Edition. Un-numbered/2000. Black hardback half-leather cover with dark green velvet boards. 410mm x 310mm 16" x 12". 215pp. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . Osborne Editions hardcover
1959035375London: British Ornithologist's Union 1959. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo 18 x 25.5 cm. Uniformally bound in the publisher's bright red cloth binding gilt vignette of an Ibis to the front board with some blind stamped detail. Bindings have some signs of silverfish damage to the surface of the cloth on the spines bright gilt lettering to the spines corners are a little bumped/rounded binding firm. Contents clean and tight a few spots to endpapers of volume 102 only otherwise unmarked. A great deal of interesting article photographic plates and charts within. A clean run of nine volumes 1959 to 1967 inclusive. Heavy set so a little surcharge may be required to cover the cost of using a courier service please enquire for more details. British Ornithologist's Union Hardcover
1901020302Edinburgh: Printed for Private Circulation 1901. Illustrated with three plates large octavo pp xiv ii 203 the top edge gilt the other two edges age-toned a few slight thumb/reading creases a few neat pencil notes in the margins the page listing the illustrations is foxed the endpapers age-toned the name of the original owner on the presentation page has been gemtly removed otherwise very clean internally blue cloth with only very slight signs of use. The Oates-Selborne copy with the bookplate of Robert Washington Oates. VERY SCARCE. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Printed for Private Circulation Hardcover
198114453NY: Abbeville Press. Fine. 1981. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Limited edition bound in green leather and signed by both authors. Slightest shelf rubbing lower left on the front. This will take extra postage; it is a large heavy book. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; Signed by Author . Abbeville Press hardcover
1904036174London: R. H. Porter 1904. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. A bright and fresh copy; pp. xvi 216; fold out map present chromolithographic frontispiece plate of a Great Black backed gull's nest and numerous others. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering bevelled edges bright slight wear a couple of light scuff marks to spine. Top edge gilt. Contents clean and tight bookplate belonging to John Emerson Griffith to the front pastedown light toning a few marks on page margins and fore-edges plates and text clean. A very good copy of this scarce title. Peasrson also wrote " Beyond Petsora Eastward". Provenance - John Emerson Griffith; Oologist specialising in waders former editor of the Jourdain Society Bulletin he held a senior post for over 30 years. R. H. Porter Hardcover
1925038642United Kingdom 1925. Drawing. Illus. by Leonard Brightwell. Near Fine. Framed. Signed by THE ARTIST. Original. Etching dry point on laid paper signed and titled by the artist one of Brightwell's finest works of animal art completed around 1925. Published in London by the British company "James Connell & Sons" in a run of one hundred impressions. Plate 305mm x 220mm. Paper is lightly cockled but otherwise fine and unmarked with a deep acid free fine mount. Black stained wooden frame in fine condition. Framed dimension 530mm x 440mm. A characterful and humorous work. Biography - Leonard Robert Brightwell London Born 1889 - 1962 An outstanding British etcher illustrator and author of animal subjects Leonard Robert Brightwell studied at the Lambeth School of Art London. Countless visits to the Zoological Gardens however provided his most important artistic education. Brightwell became a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London in 1906 and a member of the Marine Biological Association in 1922. During the first half of the twentieth century he was commissioned by these associations and other museums to make scientific drawings of various forms of life including extinct animals. Brightwell's first illustrated book A British Dog in France was published in 1913. During the First World War 1914-1918 he served in the British Army. After 1920 Brightwell established himself as a major illustrator and as an author. Books written and illustrated by him include A Cartoonist among Animals 1921 On the Seashore 1934 The Zoo You Knew 1936 Neptune's Garden 1937 The Dawn of Life 1938 The Garden Naturalist 1941 The Zoo Story 1952 and Down to the Sea 1954.His cartoons often appeared in the Punch Magazine. . unknown
1957016139London: Collins 1957. Illustrated small octavo pp xii 176 fore-edge slightly foxed a signature on the front endpaper and an owner's small book label beneath the d.w. flap otherwise very clean internally green cloth with a very slight suggestion of fade along the top edge; the dustwrapper is not price-clipped it is slightly worn along its top edge and a little soiled on its rear cover the spine is a little faded and age-toned. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Slightly worn and faded. Collins Hardcover
192856275Boston: Boston Society of Natural History 1928. Memoiors of the Boston Society of Natural History Volume 6 Number 3. With 23 plates from photogrraphs including 6 in color. 1 vols. Folio. Original olive cloth fine. Memoiors of the Boston Society of Natural History Volume 6 Number 3. With 23 plates from photogrraphs including 6 in color. 1 vols. Folio. A large scholarly work based on the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900-1903 undertaken by the St.Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Boston Society of Natural History unknown
1953000805London: Oliver & Boyd 1953. 12 volume set published 1953-1963. 385 full-page color plates by Lodge. Species accounts include identification distribution migration breeding behaviors. Appendices on rarities additional records Celtic bird names. Indexed. A bright pristine set; some Djs price clipped chipped or wrinkled in Brodart covers. First British Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Lodge G.E. 4to. Oliver & Boyd Hardcover
1991002891Sydney Australia: Angus & Robertson 1991. Part of The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Some foxing to minor title page. 429 pages with colour illustrations. Covers 70 species of honeyeaters and several other groups of arboreal birds. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Angus & Robertson Hardcover
1991031577Melbourne: Hill House 1991. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Facsimile Edition. Elephant Folio. Limited facsimile edition this copy stamped no. 203 to the front end paper. A fine copy with minimal wear contents clean and tight unmarked. Original green Japanese Saifu cloth gilt; pp. iv plus 97 fine coloured plates with accompanying text. One of a series of remarkably exact same-size facsimile of the original in the British Library printed by offset lithography on acid-free matt art paper and hand-bound. The Hill House series contained the only authentic full-size facsimiles of the works of John Gould - this volume is one of the original printings and now out of print. Publisher's blurb thus "They are not reproductions because no camera was used in transferring the images from the B.M.N.H. originals. Indeed the originals are taken by Museum security courier to the repro-house in Singapore where they are subjected to the preparation of new plates for printing on 5 and 6 colour offset presses. The paper used is 130 gsm mat art paper. As facsimiles the books carry faithfully every spot mark or stain of the originals. They also carry the original Museum Department of Zoology stamps and librarian's annotations. From behind glass the naked eye would be unable to distinguish the original from the facsimile so accurate is the colour printing. Also as facsimiles they are exactly the same size as the originals Imperial Folio: 22" x 15". Each volume is hand sewn cased-in and bound between 4 mm. gilt stamped on the spine and with the gold Crown Cipher of the British Museum Natural History on the front and blind embossed on the inner margin of the front boards. The end-papers are of special wood-free heavy grade paper printed in a generated repetitive pattern of the Museum's Library stamps. The publisher has not intruded into the authenticity of the books leaving the publication data printed only on the very last page at the end of the book block. Each copy is hand inspected by the printer's quality control officer individually numbered on the inside front board. Thus no two copies are exactly the same. Although initial volumes were printed in more than 500 copies later production runs have not exceeded 300 for world-wide sale. This has been caused by a relative shortage of quality paper together with the intensive hand-labour involved in their production." This book is held in stock. A postal surcharge may apply on this heavy book. Hill House Hardcover
1901033780Edinburgh: Printed for Private Circulation 1901. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 4to 25 x 19 cm. Privately printed for circulation to friends and family this copy presented to "Dr MacGillivray" with the author's compliments. Pp. xiv 2 203 1; monotone frontispiece plate of an eagle with prey with tissue guard two further plates of the memorial plate and the monument to Macgillivray. Original dark blue textured cloth with gilt lettering very good and bright with light rubbing to extremities cloth very slightly marked. Contents clean and tight a little toning to end papers slight spotting to presentation leaf otherwise more or less unmarked pages crisp. A very good copy of this scarce tribute. we have seen a couple of other copies of this work and neither as bright and crisp as this copy. Printed for Private Circulation Hardcover
1942053688New York: National Audubon Society 1942. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Quarto. xi 111 pages indexed. Soft cover bound in tan wrappers. Moderate wear to the binding. The spine is a bit toned as is the rear cover and there are some finger smudges on the front cover. the text is clean. Illustrated with some drawings and a few photos and a color frontis. Includes maps of some of the locations of the Ivory Billed Woodpecker sightings. One of the rarest and most sought-after birds in America. Some assume the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker to be extinct while others consider it highly endangered. The few sightings in recent decades are all open to debate and some controversy. The possible or near extinction of this largest of the woodpeckers is largely due to the destruction of its natural habitat through logging as well as over-hunting for trophies. The last universally confirmed sighting in the U.S. was in 1944 in the Singer Tract in northeastern Louisiana. Other more recent sightings have elicited excitement but have failed to achieve universal acceptance. <br/> <br/> National Audubon Society paperback
1991029401Melbourne: Hill House 1991. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Facsimile Edition. Elephant Folio. Limited facsimile edition this copy stamped no. 177 to the front paste-down. A fine copy in the publisher's original packing box; a little faint spotting to the title page. Original green Japanese Saifu cloth gilt; pp. iv plus 97 fine coloured plates with accompanying text. One of a series of remarkably exact same-size facsimile of the original in the British Library printed by offset lithography on acid-free matt art paper and hand-bound. The Hill House series contained the only authentic full-size facsimiles of the works of John Gould - this volume is one of the original printings and now out of print. A fine copy. Publisher's blurb thus "They are not reproductions because no camera was used in transferring the images from the B.M.N.H. originals. Indeed the originals are taken by Museum security courier to the repro-house in Singapore where they are subjected to the preparation of new plates for printing on 5 and 6 colour offset presses. The paper used is 130 gsm mat art paper. As facsimiles the books carry faithfully every spot mark or stain of the originals. They also carry the original Museum Department of Zoology stamps and librarian's annotations. From behind glass the naked eye would be unable to distinguish the original from the facsimile so accurate is the colour printing. Also as facsimiles they are exactly the same size as the originals Imperial Folio: 22" x 15". Each volume is hand sewn cased-in and bound between 4 mm. gilt stamped on the spine and with the gold Crown Cipher of the British Museum Natural History on the front and blind embossed on the inner margin of the front boards. The end-papers are of special wood-free heavy grade paper printed in a generated repetitive pattern of the Museum's Library stamps. The publisher has not intruded into the authenticity of the books leaving the publication data printed only on the very last page at the end of the book block. Each copy is hand inspected by the printer's quality control officer individually numbered on the inside front board. Thus no two copies are exactly the same. Although initial volumes were printed in more than 500 copies later production runs have not exceeded 300 for world-wide sale. This has been caused by a relative shortage of quality paper together with the intensive hand-labour involved in their production." This book is held in stock. A POSTAL SURCHARGE MAY APPLY ON THIS HEAVY BOOK. We hold the full set of Birds of Australia in stock. Hill House Hardcover
19862179Stockholm: Björck & Börjesson. VG : in very good condition with blue slipcase. 1986. Limited Edition 280/500. Blue hardback cloth covers. 440mm x 290mm 17" x 11". 99pp viii; 332pp. 166 colour plates. Heavy set - extra shipping needed for overseas. . Björck & Börjesson hardcover
1980032018Kingston Deverill: Fine Bird Books 1980. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Edition Limited. Elephant Folio. Limited copy stamped no. 57 of 275 and signed by the author. A fine copy within a textured slip case with minimal wear. Original half red morocco oatmeal cloth boards gilt lettering to spine. Tipped in list of subscribers twenty tipped in colour plates with associated text. Contents clean and tight unmarked. with superb illustrations. This book is held in stock. A postal surcharge may apply due to the weight. Fine Bird Books Hardcover
