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Octavo in green and white cloth; 192 pages; illustrations, portraits 20 cm The Abercrombie & Fitch Library / Hunting, Birds, Ducks, Fowl. Shooting.†
Large octavo in illus black and beige jacket; 300 pages ; 22 cm Includes bibliographical references. "An award-winning best-seller from the UK recounts how the author, an experienced falconer grieving the sudden death of her father, endeavored to train for the first time a dangerous goshawk predator as part of her personal recovery. "As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White's struggle to train a hawk as a spiritual contest. When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She buys Mabel ... on a Scottish quayside and takes her home to Cambridge. Then she fills the freezer with hawk food and unplugs the phone, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals." || Contents: Patience -- Lost -- Small worlds -- Mr White -- Holding tight -- The box of stars -- Invisibility -- The Rembrandt interior -- The rite of passage -- Darkness -- Leaving home -- Outlaws -- Alice, falling -- The line -- For whom the bell -- Rain -- Heat -- Flying free -- Extinction -- Hiding -- Fear -- Apple day -- Memorial -- Drugs -- Magical places -- The flight of time -- The new world -- Winter histories -- Enter spring -- The moving earth. || Hawks. Grief. Spirituality. Grief. Hawks. Spirituality. Hawks. Falconry. Goshawks. Grief. Spiritual life. Macdonald, Helen, 1970- White, T. H. (Terence Hanbury), 1906-1964. Nature. Ornithology. Spirituality. Autobiography. Autobiographies. Note(s): Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2014./ Includes bibliographical references.
303p., illus. With this is bound his Bird Miscellanies ... London, 1847. 386p. Hardcover Good condition, 3/4 leather, spine chipped, hinges weak
Excellent condition throughout: straight spine, sharp corners to the covers, text/illustrations unmarked in any way, bright, clean perfect dust jackets. Large 8vo. Vol. 1, The Oscine Passerines, jays & swallows, wrens, thrushes & allies, vireos and wood-warblers, tanagers, icterids and finches ovenbirds and woodcreepers, antbirds, gnateaters, tapaculos, tyrant flycatchers, manakins & cotingas. 1997, ISBN 0292707568, 516 pp. including index, color illustrations, maps & line drawings. Vol. 2 The Subsocine Passerines, ovenbirds and woodcreepers, antbirds, gnateaters, tapaculos, tyrant flycatchers, manakins & cotingas, illustrated as the former volume. ISBN 0292770634, this is the first edition, published in 1994; 814 pp.
Quarto in rustic red cloth with gilt titles to front and spine; 135 pages ; 20 cm; photo illus. throughout. Heavy stock. Author's first attributed book. American Women Authors of the 19th Century. Birds -- Fiction. Cardinals
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece (original captioned tissue guard present), 15 coloured plates (all original captioned tissue guards present) and 8 plates in monochrome (all original captioned tisue guards present), endpapers very lightly spotted; dark green cloth, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. 'Lodge (1860-1953) was an outstanding artist, rivalling Wolf and bettering Thorburn in his ability to paint birds of prey. Some of his best work was reproduced in the twelve volumes of Bannerman's 'Birds of the British Isles'. With this work he achieved his life's ambition to draw all our native birds' (Jackson). VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Volumes published in 1976 and 1980 respectively. Volume 1: 176 pages. Contains 52 colour plates, including four fold-out pages, and 52 drawings, reproduced in duotone. Few finger smudges to top and bottom of front board as well as some wear to large gilt title. Light wear. Spine leans slightly to right. Contents unmarked. Many pages have a barely noticeable undulation indicating past exposure to moisture, however we found no related stains. Dust jacket with 2" tear to top of front panel and average wear. Volume 2: 167 pages. Contains 48 colour plates and 48 drawings, reproduced in duotone. Bright gilt upon spine and front board. Very light wear. Spine leans slightly to the right. Unmarked. All pages have a minor undulation at the top left corner from past moisture exposure. We found no related stains. Dust jacket has moderate wear to top edge and 3" tear to bottom of back panel. Along this stain there is faint water staining. Slight evidence of moisture exposure to top right corner of front panel. Overall, these remain two attractive volumes which capture the beauty and detail of the Birds of the West Coast. Book
12mo (178 x 102mm), [2], 24, [2, adverts]pp., presentation inscription at head of title page, 8 coloured illustrations on 4 plates, some light spotting, orig. printed wrappers, spine lightly chiped.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 11 3/4"w x 12"h. 144 pages. Inscribed by Art Wolfe on title page. 4 page article from Columns: Five pages from the University of Washington Alumni Magazine on Art Wolfe laid in.
1 p. l., illus., 50 pl. 37 cm. Unbound Ex-library, Good condition, in restored paper portfolio In portfolio; title from cover
Large 8vo. Pp. 727,[9], 61 figs. on 27 pls. New cloth. - Contains six papers on the astragalian perforation in fossil mammals. The remaining six papers include "Paleontologia Argentina: Relaciones filogenéticas y geográficas (pp. 5-93); Nuevas especies de Mamíferos cretácicos y terciarios de la República Argentina (pp. 93-219); Enumeración de los Impennes fófiles de la Patafonia y de la Isla Seymour (pp. 509-576); Les Edentés fossiles de France et d'Allemagne (pp. 577-686).
PARIS , Librairie des Champs-Elysées,07/09/1941 - Edition originale numérotée - Livre V ème - In-4° - 4 Planches HT - Nombreuses illustrations en texte - 141-(2) pages - Très bon état. Ouvrage publié sous le haut patronnage du Saint-Hubert Club de France.
Volume I xxiv, 379 pages. Volume II 391 pages. With alphabetical list of British Birds giving English and systematic name. Modern calf-backed boards. Light wear/scuffing.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with a frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and a plate, some minor foxing to endpapers preliminaries and title only; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. The first publicly available avifauna of the county, representing a substantially revised and enlarged edition of the author's first, privately printed, list of 1882. Not recorded by Tate.
Three volumes. Volume I: Water Birds, Marsh Birds and Shore Birds. Volume II: Land Birds - From Bob-Whites to Grackles. Volume III: Land Birds - From Sparrows to Thrushes. 1408 p. + Maps; + Plus numerous color plates (93) on glossy paper, from paintings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874-1927), and others by Allan Brooks. Each plate with multiple birds; + Plus over 45 glossy black and white photos with two birds each; and over 175 figures in the text. Large 8vo. Original full cloth bindings, faded. "This book is the first comprehensive work on the birds of this state. It marks notable advances in our knowledge of the local distribution of species." **PRICE JUST REDUCED! NH8
Four Volumes bound in two. Illustrated with Eighty-Five full page copperplates. Early manuscript ownership of Sarah B. Roger, 1847 on title pages of Volume One and Volume Three. Light age stain in volumes one and two. Mild damp stain on bottom corner margins of volume three and four. 230 mm. Original full leather bindings, worn. Spines very worn with loss. Front board of volume one detached, other boards very fragile. Hardbound. Fair. Text good. Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel 'The Vicar of Wakefield' (1766), his pastoral poem 'The Deserted Village' (1770), and his plays 'The Good-Natur'd Man' (1768) and 'She Stoops to Conquer' (1771). He is thought to have also written the classic children's tale 'The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes' (1765). First published in 1774 'A History of the Earth and Animated Nature' was also extremely popular. This Philadelphia 1845 edition is scarce and complete examples are rarely offered for sale. PAIMP20
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 255 pages. Previous owner's name. The study of the overwintering process can offer an insight into the development of insects, as well as predict the patterns of disease epidemic and crop destruction caused by some species.
334p. Illustrated with 330 text engravings. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Spine has some loss. Printed label of Dr. W. L. Hays advertising his office hours in Philadelphia. Given to A. Cameron fro m Dr. Hays, 1867. Charming illustrations of birds, beasts and animals. Very scarce and important Phrenological study. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PHREN 1
337 p. 8vo. Original printed wraps. XLib. Limited Edition. "A compendium with which there is no work to compare for any other state, nor for any other country" = The Auk. Also issued as: Pennsylvania German Society. Volume LII.
pp. 226 + 11 Color chromolithograph plates of birds, drawn by Robert & John L. Ridgway; and Giles Lithograph & Liberty Printing Co., New York. The great bird plates have some damp stain, but could be easily washed. + Plus 15 line drawn plates of fish. Folio. Most of the original full leather binding remains, but it is best to consider this as disbound. Arctic Series of Publications issued in Connection with the Signal Service, U.S. Army, No. II. The bird illustrators deserve special note. Robert Ridgway (1850-1929) was one America's leading ornithologists. At the age of 17, he was appointed zoologist on a geological survey of the 40th parallel. From 1874 until his death, he served as ornithologist and curator of the Smithsonian Institute. Ridgway established a system of color standards and nomenclature that is still used today. Robert's younger brother John was chief illustrator for United States Geological Survey and an artist for the California Institute of Technology and Carnegie Institution of Washington. Check References: Nissen, ZBI, 4184 and 2962; Bennett, p. 107; Wickersham 7836; Ricks p. 222; Arctic Bibliography 18091 & 18092; Ayer Zimmer, pages. 463 & 643 644. W155
4to., First Edition, with illustrated title-spread and numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations ( a number full-page) by the author in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE. SCARCE.
Tervuren, Annales du Musée du Congo Belge 1948 - 1949. 2 volumes in-folio en feuillets et sous étui. Contenant : les parties C - Zoologie, Série IV . Volume II. Fascicule 1 et 2 en pagination continue, de 416 pages. 422 figures ou photos dans le texte. I : Struthioniformes, Colymbiformes, Procellariiformes, Pelecaniformes, Ciconiformes, Phocnicopteriformes, Ansériformes, Falconiformes. II : Galliformes, Turniciformes, Ralliformes, Gruiformes, Charadriiformes, Lariformes. Les couvertures des fascicules sont déchirées avec manque. L'intérieur est très frais
H. Dupuy 1948, fort In-8 broché, couverture rempliée, 523 pages. Ouvrage orné de 125 gravures d'après nature par Emile THIVIER, Maurice MOISAND, et par l'auteur.
Samen 5 publicaties ingebonden in 2 fysieke banden, 116 + 140 + 256 + 329 + 362pp., met illustraties in tekst, 25cm., 2 uniforme moderne blauwlinnen banden, stempeltje, goede staat, gewicht: 2.2kg., B99770
2 volumes In-4, XXI-766-870p. Edition française par Z. Gerbe. Illustré de 39 planches hors texte et d'environ 750 figures dans le texte. Texte sur 2 colonnes. Exemplaires en parfaite condition.