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1870e8343London: John van Voorst. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and edgeworn with chipping at head of spine. Internal hinges cracked also gutter in places. Previous owner's inscription and stamp. 1870. First Edition. Blue hardback cloth cover. 230mm x 160mm 9" x 6". vi 109pp ads. B/W plates. . John van Voorst hardcover
1847002426London: John van Voorst 1847. Errata slip tipped-in 447pp. Very small white library number on spine spine ends worn corners bumped and worn. Flyleaf has a rubber stamp bookplate and elegant owner's inscription from 1860. 1 1/2" tear along gutter at top of spine with no loss. Neat library pocket in back both hinges reinforced. First Edition. Hard Cover. John van Voorst Hardcover
1877023076London: John Murray 1877. Second edition twelfh thousand revised and corrected. Small thick octavo pp xvi 693 publisher's catalogue dated May 1878 various text illustrations becoming a little weak internally this means that several signatures are becoming slightly proud at the fore-edge the title page and the subsequent thirty pages are lightly bruised at the upper corner otherwise very good internally with the book label of Jas. Lodge Jnr. Green cloth a little rubbed and very slightly marked the spine just slightly pulled at head and tail. Freeman 948 - "The final definitive text". Second edition. Cloth. Good. John Murray Hardcover
1883036528London: Taylor and Francis 1883. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed to a Slip. First Edition. 8vo. Volume 1 only Pp. 185; Extracted from the "Journal of the Northamptonshire Natural History Society" and printed for private circulation. Original green pebbled cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine very good. Contents clean and tight some foxing to endpapers tipped into the front free endpaper an inscription from Lord Lilford to Lady Lyveden "from hers affectionately and ornithiologically The Author Lilford 1883". A very good copy. Taylor and Francis Hardcover
1838045726London: John Van Voorst 1838. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dark green cloth lettered in gilt. Ex-library copy from non-circulating institutional library spine and joints clear-coated with handwritten call label on lower spine two book plates mounted on front fixed endpaper. vii684 pp. Cloth split and neatly mended along upper front joint. Front flyleaf slightly chipped along fore-edge and with minor loss to top corner. John Van Voorst Hardcover
1885038904Edinburgh: Thomas C. Jack 1885. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Royal 8vo 23 x 15 cm. Pp. x 58; folding colour map to the rear 9 plates complete as called for including two coloured plates of the Auk egg. Original cloth binding worn but conservatively repaired please see images. Contents clean and tight spotting to the first and last few pages some spotting internally but mainly confined to the margins bookplate belonging to Eric Hosking tipped onto the front pastedown no inscriptions. A good copy 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 ingenious 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. Thomas C. Jack Hardcover
1824022652Paris: Audot et Corbie 1824. First edition. Illustrated with 25 colour plates and one plain engraved plate of equipment small octavo pp viii 240 the text pages are very clean but the book is becoming very weak with badly cracked hinges the front hinge in particularly is badly sprung and the endpaper is protruding. Whilst most of the plates are good a couple are suffering from light foxing but a few others have suffered at the hands of a careless original colourist with the odd small splashmar and in one case a smeared image. Contemporary full calf rubbed and worn with the rear cover rather scuffed. From the library of Alan Roger of Dundonnell House in the Highlands; Roger had a notable garden there with many caged birds. On aviary and dovecote pigeons. Corbie was the birdkeeper to the Duchess of Berry who had been breeding purebred pigeons for 45 years. First Edition. Full-Leather. Fair. Audot et Corbie Hardcover
1842022833Paris: L. Curmer 1842. 1842 - 1843. Two volumes large thick octavo very well illustrated with many fine engraved portraits plans and plates including 32 coloured plates of a very fine quality pp xxiv416; 462 ii one plate is foxed otherwise very clean internally apart from the endpapers which are a little marked becoming a little weak internally; the fore-edge uneven contemporary publisher's green pebble cloth gilt decorated spines very slightly worn. With the book label of the Sussex historian Lindsay Fleming Aldwick Grange. . Cloth. Good. L. Curmer Hardcover
1868007926Boston: Nichols and Noyes 1868. 596 pages. Red leather binding with gold-stamped title "The Birds of New England" on spine 28 color plates including 4 plates of birds' eggs. with tissue overlays one tissue missing. Small tear at top of pages 473-478. Small half of a .25 coin very light water stain hidden at top of gutter affecting pages 179-330 barely visible with no rippling or sticking. Light foxing on some pages opposite color plates. Former owner's stamp on front and rear end sheets. Tight binding. " This edition has the indentical text of the editio principes of 1867 but has a tall paper format an appendix and superior all-colored lithographed plates." - Wood 550. The best edition with the most color plates. Full-Leather. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Nichols and Noyes Hardcover
1893036996London: Bemrose & Sons Limited 1893. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Authors. First Edition. 8vo. pp. vi 239 frontispiece plate and fold out map five further plates fine. Cloth binding very good with light rubbing this appears to be a slightly later binding. Contents clean and tight patterned endpapers original endpaper tipped in with James Fisher's signature and an inscription " from F. B. Whitlock Beeston Notts england 11 Dec. 1893" otherwise unmarked. A clean very good first edition. The Author Whitlock was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to 11 years in prison. Loosely inserted is a facsimile of the £100 reward poster. Bemrose & Sons, Limited Hardcover
1893037264London: Bemrose & Sons Limited 1893. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Authors. First Edition. 8vo. Inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper "The Editor 'Natural Sciences' With the Author's compliments Beeston Hall 11 April '93" pp. vi 239 frontispiece plate and fold out map five further plates very good corrigenda slip tipped in. Publisher's textured green cloth binding with gilt lettering very good with a little light wear. Contents clean and tight original patterned endpapers. A very good clean copy inscribed by the author. The Author Whitlock was convicted of embezzlement a wanted poster was published and eventually he was sentenced to 11 years in prison. Bemrose & Sons, Limited Hardcover
1872038272London: John Van Voorst 1872. Book. Illus. by Keulemans J. G. frontispiece. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo. pp. xii 231 pages; frontispiece plate"A Flamborough Trophy Fulmar Petrel." by Keulemans. Green cloth boards very good with a little general wear scuffed to the top and bottom of the spine binding is firm. Contents clean and tight the front endpaper is worn along the hinge but does not affect the binding bookplate belonging to Charles Francis Wyatt of Broughton Rectory Oxon a well known collector of the late 19th century two newspaper cuttings dated 1899 1888 tipped onto the front free endpaper. Ref: Ballance p203; Freeman 817; Mullens & Swann p.144. Charles Francis Wyatt 1820-1906 was rector of Broughton Oxfordshire and an antiquary. John Van Voorst Hardcover
1837033014London: Printed by Richard Tayor for the Author 1837 A good copy of the 1st edition in the original cloth binding with 2 folding maps at the rear. Robert Dunn titles himself as an 'animal-preserver' - which sadly does not mean that he was a conservationist. The book is a full account of his travels and the various species that he encountered and then shot and presumably stuffed when he was back home. The binding is complete and sound with pulling to spine ends bumped corners and some staining to the front board. There are the remains of a paper title label to the spine. Internally the original endpapers are present with 2 old signatures at the fep which has some light marking at the bottom. Contents with half title; frontispiece; title page; dedication; introduction; notice to subscribers announcing the addition of maps for those who wanted them; text 128pp; and folding maps of Orkney and Shetland. Contents are generally clean with light toning particularly to page edges and with the odd spot or mark. Pages 45-48 are badly opened with some loss to the side margin. The maps have some creasing at the side edges. Printed by Richard Tayor for the Author hardcover
1881030045London: Tweeddale Printed By Taylor and Francis 1881. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Edited and Revised. 8vo. pp 4 lxix 760. b/w etchings within text to the rear. Original dark pebbled cloth binding near fine with a little general wear to corners bright gilt to the spine. Contents clean and tight first and last few pages effected by toning and spotting otherwise internally clean text pages unmarked no inscriptions. A very good copy. Bibliographic note; copies bound up for the family included a frontisepiece map and 11 colour plates this copy is without. It was edited and revised by Tweeddale's nephew at the instruction of his widow in memory of her husband The book covers mainly Southeast Asia. Tweeddale, Printed By Taylor and Francis Hardcover
1872037067London: John Van Voorst 1872. Book. Illus. by Keulemans J. G. frontispiece. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo. pp. xii 231 pages; frontispiece plate"A Flamborough Trophy Fulmar Petrel." by Keulemans. Green cloth boards very good with a little general wear. Contents clean and tight some foxing to the endpapers on the reverse of the front free endpaper are the signatures of Alexander William Clark Kennedy of the Cold Stream guards 1873 and the initials of Rev. F. C. R Joudain 1899. A good book with a significant provenance firstly belonging to A. W. Clark Kennedy and later given to Rev. Francis Jourdain author of books such as A Handbook of British Birds by Kirkman and Joudain Clark-Kennedy Alexander William Maxwell 1851 -1894 Alexander William Maxwell Clark- Kennedy was born at Rochester Kent. He attended school at Aldershot and then at Eton College. He married Hon. Lettice Lucy Hewitt daughter of James 4th Viscount Lifford d. 1939 in Donegal in 1875 with whom he had five sons and two daughters. In 1867 he inherited the family estate of Knockgray in Galloway. While still at Eton at the age of sixteen he wrote The birds of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire: a contribution to the natural history of the two counties Eton 1868 which proved very popular. Following Eton he joined the Coldstream Guards rising to the rank of Captain. He continued his interests in hunting shooting and fishing and was a member of several societies and associations becoming a Fellow of the Linnaean Society and the Antiquarian Society of Scotland. He also penned To the Arctic regions and back in six weeks : being a summer tour to Lapland and Norway : with notes on sport and natural history London 1878 and Robert the Bruce: a poem historical and romantic London 1884. Ref: Ballance p203; Freeman 817; Mullens & Swann p.144. John Van Voorst Hardcover
1867fom05acLondon: Groombridge and Sons. G : in good condition. Covers rubbed. Spines faded. Blank labels to front paste-downs. Staining to eps of volume II. Occasional light foxing. 1867. Reprint. Grey-blue gilt decorated hardback cloth cover. 260mm x 180mm 10" x 7". iv 156pp; iv 148pp; iv 140pp plates. 225 colour plates. Heavy set extra shipping needed for overseas. . Groombridge and Sons hardcover
1834032478<p>EDINBURGH: W H LIZARS 1834 1st edition second printing of humming birds in the original publisher's cloth bindings with 64 hand coloured plates. The bindings are sound and clean. Both have been rebacked preserving the original spine. Vol I has slight bubbling to the cloth; a bump to the rear bottom corner; a small lighter spot on the front board and fading to edges and spine. Vol II has some wear and bumping to corners; the front board has mottling and some fading to edges. The original green endpapers are present in both volumes with repair. Vol I: frontispiece black and white portrait of 'Linnaeus in his Lapland Dress'; hand coloured vignette title page; 2 further title pages dated 1834 a year after the first printing; publisher's advert; contents listing; Memoir of Linnaeus; and text with black and white illustrations and 34 hand coloured plates bound at the rear; 23pp publisher's catalogue. Vol.II: half title; black and white frontispiece portrait of Pennant; hand coloured vignette title page; 2 further title pages dated 1833 together with an additional title page for Vol I; contents listing; advert; Memoir of Pennant; text with 30 hand coloured plates; synopsis; index; and a range of publisher's adverts - 166 pages in all. Vol I has foxing particularly to the early pages and to the page edges. The plates have light brown toning but Plate I is very browned. There is the odd spot to plates but this is mostly to the verso. 5 plates lack tissue guards. Vol II is brighter and although with occasional spotting eg initial text gutter to pp 30-35; the plates are generally bright and clean. Plates 1 and 2 have a couple of spots with more spots to verso and tissue guards; plates 27 and 28 have a couple of small spots. Please enquire if you would like to see additional images. As usual with editions bound in the publisher's cloth page edges are untrimmed.</p> W H LIZARS hardcover
1854035433London: Thomas Bosworth 1854. Book. Illus. by Joseph Wolf. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. Pp. 54 12 colour plates with tissue guards and decorative mounts. Original cloth binding spine poor and text block separate from the binding ornate gilt detail to front board. Contents complete the original end-papers name and date 1857 to the front pastedownall edges gilt the gutta percha has deteriorated to leave the pages loose the plates with tissue guards are clean and bright. A fair copy in need of a repair to the binding. Thomas Bosworth Hardcover
1844004129Albany: Carroll and Cook 1844. 380 pages of text & 141 hand-colored plates. Most plates contain two birds. They are by John William Hill lithographed by Endicott. Only 300 copies were issued with the plates colored. - Zimmer 165 Bennett 90.Thick 4to. Binding tight but spine is missing heavy corner and edge wear corners bumped. Scattered foxing in text occasional light offsetting on plates but mostly nice and clean. Two different rubber stamps inside cover one library. No other library markings. This is part of the Natural History of New York 20 volume series. Hard Cover. 4to. Carroll and Cook Hardcover
18463282bLondon: John van Voorst. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed. Some off-setting but content including illustrations in ovaerall VG condition. 1846. First Edition. Brown hardback half-leather cover with marbled boards. 220mm x 140mm 9" x 6". xvi 223pp; 247pp plates. 131 hand coloured plates. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . John van Voorst hardcover
18765825Montreal: Dawson Bros. Good with no dust jacket. 1876. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Decorated green cloth with a gilt owl on the front. The books looks "very good" but some splitting at the top of the spine and the inner hinges are cracking although the book is tight. Lacks plates 22 & 23 but with an extra plates #28 & 29. I understand this is common problem with this book if we can use the term for such an uncommon book as these were evidently assembled by hand and mistakes were made. Plate 18 is placed as a frontis.; 8x10 1/2" . Dawson Bros. hardcover
1870030898LONDON: George Bell & Sons 1870 A nice set of the second edition of Morris's History of British Birds. In 6 volumes with original decorative cloth bindings and 365 hand coloured plates as called for. The bindings are all clean with bright gilt pictures of birds to each front board and gilt titles and decoration to spine. There is some wear: volume I has some cloth splitting at the hinges and splitting at the rear endpaper with rubbing to corners; volumes II III and IV have very slight pulling to top and bottom of spine and a little rubbing at corners; volume V has very small splits at the top and bottom of the spine; and volume VI has a 1 inch tear at the top of the spine with no loss and scuffing at the corners. Internally all have the original endpapers; the first section including the frontispiece is becoming loose on volumes I II and III; volume IV is sound but the stitching is looser than on the others. There is a little spotting to some plates and text pages but in general the contents are very clean looking unread and the plates are bright and well coloured. A few plates in volume III lack tissue guards and the plate of the Whitethroat is present but detached. Volume 5 has 4 plates present but detached: the Little Stint Schinz's Sandpiper Pochard and Polish Swan - and pages 131-134 the same. A few pages have been roughly opened and a few have darkening to edges. Overall the set is complete with bright bindings and well coloured plates. George Bell & Sons hardcover
1815033188<p>Bungay: Printed and published by Brightly & Childs. Published also by T Kinnersley 1815 A good 2 volume set in new half calf and marbled board bindings with 148 of 152 hand-coloured plates. This work is extremely rare and as is usual with the Bungay publications the paper quality is poor tending to attract dirt and staining. The collation of this work is generally haphazard and the plates are not numbered. The bindings are in fine condition with leather title labels and gilt lines to spines. Contents: Vol I: title; introduction i - xxxv; text pp 1-586 with 67 of 71 plates. Vol II: title dated 1820; text pp 1-700 with 81 plates Finis. The paper in both volumes is toned to varying degrees with some areas of offsetting marking or staining. Some page corners have been turned over. There is the occasional side edge tear and there is professional paper repair to the title page of Vol I and initial pages where there has been some worming. There is slight worming in the margin of xiii-xvi. The plates in these volumes are cleaner with better and more detailed colouring than usual and the plate paper is in better condition than the text paper. The plate of the Spoonbill in Vol II has some black ink splots on it - as does the opposing text page no 333. Please enquire if you would like to see additional images to better assess condition.</p> Printed and published by Brightly & Childs. Published also by T Kinnersley hardcover
188634839Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son Printers 1886. First Edition with the original advertising leaf for the work tipped into the inner cover of the holding box and one of a small number of copies uncut untrimmed and unbound. Illustrated with 25 Full Sized Lithographic plates depicting 323 eggs of the birds coloured true to nature generally with 15 eggs per folio plate sometimes with less when depicting the eggs of the largest birds. Folio 37.5 x 26.5 cm an original unbound set of the folio leaves all laid into a holding box of black cloth the spine lettered in gilt. 116 textual plates and 25 lithographic plates on toned paper. A fine copy of this rare work. FIRST EDITION AND ONE OF A VERY FEW COPIES ISSUED UNBOUND UNCUT AND UNTRIMMED. The author's chief aim has been to render this work as useful and true to nature as possible.endeavored to confine myself strictly to the eggs nests and breeding habits." A superb work on the eggs and breeding habits of the birds of New England the text and illustrations augmenting one another. Alfred Mudge & Son, Printers hardcover
1857032907London: Willis and Sotheran 1857 A good set in contemporary rebacked cloth bindings with 322 colour plates of birds 102 colour plates of eggs and 8 black and white plates. The original cloth was probably a shade of green but it has sunned. It has been rebacked in a dark green relaying the original gilt-decorated spines which are mostly complete. The bindings are therefore sound and tight but there is a lot of wear to corners with varying degrees of bumping corner turning fraying and loss of cloth. Newer marbled endpapers have been added and each volume has an armorial bookplate of K I Beynon to the front pastedown with the motto 'Gwell Dysg Na Golud' the original motto of Llandovery College. Internally the volumes are complete and the plates are well-coloured. All the title pages have a small ink signature of Spencer Nicholl to the top. There is sporadic light marking which is mostly to margins particularly the side margin and occasional foxing to text. The top margin has dark toning at the top edge. Vol I: title; contents; preface; text pp 3-320 with 45 bird and 14 egg plates in colour and 6 black and white plates. There is a small top edge tear to plate 22; small loss from the side edge of p 119; and the text pp vary from white to toned with some spotting. Vol II: title; contents; text 233pp with 46 bird and 12 egg colour plates. Plate at p 45 lacks guard; plate at 86 has a creased guard; plate at 107 has a loose guard and there is a small paint run to plate at p214. Vol III: title; contents; text 240pp with 45 bird and 13 egg colour plates. Some spotty text and odd marks to guards or verso of plates. Vol IV: title; contents; text 215pp with 45 bird and 15 egg colour plates. Some marking to plate 160. Vol V: title; contents; text 192pp with 45 bird and 15 egg colour plates. Small repaired paper hole at p49. Vol VI: title; contents; text 185pp with 44 bird and 15 egg colour plates and 1 black and white plate. Light foxing. Vol VII: title; contents; text 198pp with 52 bird and 18 egg colour plates and 1 black and white plate; index pp 199-206. Paper repair to top edge p 49; offsetting to guards. Willis and Sotheran hardcover
