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19002482AB1900. Berlin P.J. Oestergaard about 1900. 8°. 96 pp. With 30 chromolithographed plates with 239 ill. and many ill. in the text by Karl Neunzig. Ill. half-cloth. Binding loose and rubbed. Page 96 with a small tear 10 cms; slightly foxing throughout. hardcover
32325LONDON VAN VOORST 1884. FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD IN GREEN CLOTH GILT FRONTIS. MAP AND 7 PLATES FROM STUFFED BIRDS. SOME FOXING TO PRELIMS. AND PAGE EDGES BUT OTHERWISE VERY CLEAN. A VERY GOOD COPY. LONDON, VAN VOORST, 1884 hardcover
18387LONDON. OLIVER AND BOYD.1966. VOLUME THREE - A HISTORY OF THE BIRDS OF THE AZORES. NEAR FINE COPY WITH A VERY GOOD DUSTWRAP. COLOUR HALF-TONE PLATES WOOD ENGRAVINGS IN TEXT MAPS. ILLUSTRATIONS BY D.M. REID-HENRY GEORGE E. LODGE C.F. TUNNICLIFFE AND OTHERS. EXTRA POSTAGE. LONDON. OLIVER AND BOYD.1966 unknown
2473LONDON OLIVER & BOYD 1953. FIRST EDITION. 2 VOLUMES. VERY GOOD CONDITION IN SLIGHTLY TORN DUSTWRAPPERS. WITH FOUR INTRODUCTORY CHAPTERS COMPRISING A DESCRIPTION OF SCOTLAND SOME FACTORS WHICH INFLUENCE OUR BIRD LIFE THE COMPOSITION OF THE SCOTTISH AVIFAUNA AND MIGRATION AS WELL AS THE HISTORY PRESENT DISTRIBUTION AND MIGRATION OF ALL BIRDS ON THE SCOTTISH LIST. ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS WITH TWO COLOUR FRONTISPIECES BY GEORGE LODGE. LONDON, OLIVER & BOYD, 1953 unknown
18685OXFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998. FINE/FINE COPY. BIRD FAMILIES OF THE WORLD SERIES. ILLUSTRATED BY IAN LEWINGTON AND IAN L. JONES. SIX TO NINE CHAPTERS ON THE BIOLOGY FEEDING ECOLOGY BREEDING BEHAVIOUR EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS AND CONSERVATION OF THE BIRDS IN THE FAMILY. SPECIALLY COMMISSIONED COLOUR PLATES BY A LEADING ARTIST SHOWING ADULTS OF ALL SPECIES AND MANY JUVENILES IMMATURES AND SUBSPECIES. BLACK AND WHITE DRAWINGS ILLUSTRATING SPECIAL FEATURES AND BEHAVIOUR. DESCRIPTIONS OF EACH SPECIES INDIVIDUALLY INCLUDING APPEARANCE WEIGHTS AND MEASUREMENTS; FIELD CHARACTERS; VOICE; HABITAT AND FOOD; BREEDING BEHAVIOUR; LIFE CYCLE; AND RANGE AND STATUS WITH DISTRIBUTION MAP. THESE WILL PROVIDE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE AND UP-TO-DATE SPECIES-LEVEL INFORMATION AVAILABLE. FULL BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX. OXFORD, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1998 unknown
1838r8671bEdinburgh: W H Lizars. G: in good condition. Rebound cover with edge-wear. Spine cracked and scuffed with loss to top end. Outer hinges split. Occasional inner hinge cracking. Sporadic thumbing and marking. Page edge browning. Some tape strengthening to rear corners of portrait gutter of title page and rear corners of plate 33. Missing pages 15 & 16. Plate 34 missing. 1838. First Edition. Patterned hardback board cover with leather spine. 180mm x 110mm 7" x 4". 315pp. B/w frontispiece engraved portrait half-title page vignette b/w engravings and 33 of 34 hand coloured plates by Mr. Stewart. Missing plate 34; Snowy Owl. Includes a memoir of Sir Robert Sibbald. . W H Lizars hardcover
1959000652London: Collins 1959. Collins London. 1959 1st hardback. Very Good/Good 220 x 145mm 208 pages. Colour and b/w photos line drawings. Book condition: Very good clean green buckram boards firm binding dedication on endpaper minor corner bumps. Comments: A classic NN volume on the biology of various species of Bumblebees. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collins Hardcover
34065OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. 1998. FIRST EDITION 2 VOLUMES IN FINE CONDITION IN A SLIPCASE. CONCISE EDITIONS. VOLUME 1: NON-PASSERINES AND VOLUME 2: PASSERINES. BASED ON THE HANDBOOK OF THE BIRDS OF EUROPE THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA. EXTRA POSTAGE. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. 1998 unknown
28312LONDON COUNTRY LIFE 1928. FIRST EDITION. LIMITED TO 950 NUMBERED COPIES THIS BEING NUMBER 847. QUARTO QUARTER VELLUM WITH 16 TISSUE-GUARDED PLATES BY SOUTHGATE AND 48 IN BLACK AND WHITE. PREVIOUS OWNER'S INSCRIPTION. A VERY GOOD COPY. LONDON, COUNTRY LIFE, 1928 hardcover
1837034933Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars 1837. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo. Pp.xvi 263; engraved frontispiece plate of Le Vaillant; engraved title page with a hand-coloured vignette; 34 engraved plates of which 33 are hand-coloured with tissue guards; letterpress title and half-title pages. Original cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine some fading repair to the top and bottom of the spine binding firm. Contents good and tight original green endpapers name to the top of the front endpaper and to the top of the title page plates with tissue guards present. A very good clean complete copy. W. H. Lizars Hardcover
44934PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS 2013. QUARTO A FINE COPY IN A FINE DUSTWRAP. VERY WELL ILLUSTRATED. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2013 unknown
31122LONDON JOHN VAN VOORST 1865. THIRD EDITION THREE VOLUMES. ORIGINAL GREEN CLOTH 550 TEXT WOODCUTS. EACH VOLUME HAS STRENGTHENING TAPE VERY CLEAN INTERNALLY. A VERY GOOD SET. EXTRA POSTAGE WILL BE REQUIRED. LONDON, JOHN VAN VOORST, 1865 hardcover
1845L0482adLondon: John Van Voorst. G : in good condition without dust jackets. Covers rubbed and lightly marked. Heraldic plates to front pastedowns. Previous owner's inscription to head of each title page. Contents clean and tight. 1845. Second Edition. Green cloth hardback cloth cover. 230mm x 150mm 9" x 6". xxxviii 578pp; 655pp; 651pp. Illustrated with 535 wood-engravings throughout. Heavy book extra shipping needed for overseas. Beautifully executed vignette wood engravings of British Birds by Yarrell. . John Van Voorst hardcover
1942biblio1572<p>This copy of what is a wonderful close up look at what was North Carolina's bird world in 1942 is signed by three of its authors and was the birding companion of Nancy B. Eliason Art Instructor at Campbell University. Usually marginal notes are annoying but these serve to add a welcome personal level to the text---there's even a poem!</p><p>Photos on request.</p> NC Department of Agriculture hardcover
182223414London 1822. Very good overall. A handsome hand colored copper engraving of an Australian falcon perched on a branch from Latham's 'General Synopsis of Birds'. <br /> <br /> Dr. John Latham 1740 - 1847 the leading British ornithologist of his time was a founding member of the Linnean Society and through his work with the society became acquainted with the leading naturalists and collectors of the day. Many specimens and drawings of Australian birds were arriving in Britain following expeditions to Australia. Latham gave the first published descriptions and scientific names of Australian birds including the emu lyre bird magpie and white cockatoo. <br /> <br /> A good strong impression on paper with wide margins. Faint smudging in the top margin only not affecting the image. 'Plate XI' upper left corner. Paper 8 1/4 x 10 1/2" unknown
1838045893London: John Van Voorst 1838. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dark green cloth lettered in gilt. Horizontal crease/bend to upper front board with mended separation of cloth along upper front joint otherwise modest shelf wear. Toned endpapers clean interior. vii684 pp. Scarce. John Van Voorst Hardcover
1934062512-ENew York: D. Appleton - Century Co. 1934. Book. Illus. by Various Artist. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd. Revised Edition 1934 Red cloth hardcover with gilded lettering to the cover and spine . End page at front is color map and end page at back has ruler . Illustrated with some color plates and many black & white illustration and drawings . Condition : Very Good. with edge rubs and light fading at the spine and fading of a drinking glass ring on the back board. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. D. Appleton - Century Co. Hardcover
19441067<p>7" x 10". Orange Card Stock Cover with Black Printing has watermark on the upper right corner in front and some water marking along the edge on the back cover. Appears to have a drip from a fountain pen near the hinge on the front cover. Otherwise cover in good condition with little shelf wear. 36 glossy pages with 1 color plate and 12 black and white full-page plates of early work of Wallace Hughes "a promising young artists. Wallace Hughes is now in his early twenties". 13 B&W photographs of birds at OWEN PARK in Tulsa Oklahoma included in an article "by the editor of Parks & Recreation" Will O. Dolittle after the Wallace Hughes text and plates. The twelve plates illustrate the park birds in Owen Park in each of the twelve months of the year. Book has had newspaper clippings stored within the pages as late as 1963 causing some discoloration to some of the pages. Clippings included in the sale. Application for membership in the Tulsa Audubon Society also inserted at the back of the book. Rare and precious find. Our personal family collection. Our book number 1067.</p> Reprinted from Parks and Recreation Official Publications. From the press of Wilson-Hall Company, Rockford, Illinois paperback
19025378New York:: Forest Fish and Game Commision c. 1902. First printing. Fine condition. A Fine original chromolithograph printed on heavy coated stock. Quarto 9 x 12.5 Inches. Published as part of the unbound portfolio of prints. This is one of the finest of the late 19th to early 20th century American chromolithographs: a color-printed lithograph for which a separate stone was used for the application of each color thus requiring meticulous registration to recreate the subtle tones of blended color . Archivally double matted in Forest Green rag board sized to 14 x 18 inches suitable for framing. Forest, Fish and Game Commision, unknown
1936012802New York: American Museum of Natural History 1936. This is the limited first edition #1175 of 1200 numbered copies. The Macmillan/AMNH edition was the trade edition. The plates are interspersed throughout the text rather than all bound together at the end. 1267 pages in two volumes illustrations photos maps 16 color plates. Geographic background hydrology field work family and species accounts include penguins albatrosses petrels storm petrels shearwaters tropic-birds pelicans boobies cormorants man-o-war birds oystercatchers ducks & geese skuas and jaegers gulls terns skimmers. Small rubber stamps inside cover/flyleaf otherwise a clean tight copy. First Edition Limited and Numbered. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Jaques Francis L. ill. 4to. American Museum of Natural History Hardcover
19832308040014National Book Company 1983. Interior is excellent. top back corner is creased lightly soiled National Book Company unknown
1996Q-1564962407Rockport Pub 1996-01-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Rockport Pub paperback
24192LONDON WITHERBY 1920. FIRST EDITION THICK OCTAVO BLUE CLOTH 558 pp. A VERY NICE COPY. PREVIOUS OWNER'S INSCRIPTION ON FRONT PASTEDOWN SOME REFERENCES TICKED IN PENCIL. LONDON, WITHERBY, 1920 hardcover
2005039824Abu Dhabi: Trident Press 2005. VERY HEAVY-additional postage will be requested for orders outside Australia. 428pp index bibliography references hundreds col ills. Or green cloth in jacket. Near new. The most comprehensive book on the entire range of wildlife in the UAE written by 34 different experts in their fields. As well as mammals birds marine life reptiles amphibians and insects the book also covers geology fossils habitats plants and conservation. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Folio. Trident Press Hardcover
1903004353London: Cassell & Company 1903. viii 160; viii 160; viii 156; viii 176pp; index 160 col plates num bw ills in text. Four volumes bound in two contemporary brown buckram with gilt titles. Some pencil drawings on endpaper of vol 3-4 endpapers foxed. Each volume contains 40 beautiful color plates all plates are exceptionally clean. Tape repairs to margins of 4 pages & 2 plates not affecting text or subject of plate. Thorough examination of familiar wild birds of Britain. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus. Illus. by W. Thorburn & Others. 8vo. Cassell & Company Hardcover