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19371OLIVER AND BOYD. 1953-61. COMPLETE IN 12 VOLUMES. A NICE VERY CLEAN SET. ORIGINAL OLIVE GREEN CLOTH. GILT TITLES TO SPINES. NO DUSTWRAPPERS. ILLUSTRATED WITH MANY COLOUR PLATES BY GEORGE LODGE. ADDITIONAL POSTAGE REQUIRED. OLIVER AND BOYD. 1953-61 hardcover
32312NEWCASTLE WALKER 1809. THIRD EDITION TWO VOLUMES LAND BIRDS AND WATER BIRDS VERY NICELY BOUND IN HALF LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARDS NEW ENDPAPERS RAISED BANDS GILT TITLES EXCEPTIONALLY CLEAN AND TIDY. NEWCASTLE, WALKER, 1809 hardcover
32016ESSEX ARLEQUIN PRESS 1993. LIMITED TO ONLY 50 SIGNED AND NUMBERED COPIES THIS BEING NUMBER 27. LOVELY BINDING IN HALF GREEN MOROCCO OVER MARBLED BOARDS. SMALL QUARTO. INCLUDES A SEPARATE DRAWING OF SEA OTTERS. COMPLETE WITH MATCHING SLIPCASE. A FINE COPY EXCEPT FOR A FEW MINOR MARKS OF FOXING TO THE PRELIMS. VERY SCARCE. ESSEX, ARLEQUIN PRESS, 1993 hardcover
19601NEW YORK; THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 1932-54. 4 VOLUMES IN GREY CARD COVERS: PART 1 HAS SOME WATER STAINING THROUGHOUT. BULLETIN: VOLUME LXV 1932. PART 2 : VOLUME LXXV 1939.PART 3: VOLUME 75A 1953 PART 4: VOLUME 75B 1954. ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS AND MAPS. FOLDING MAP IN VOLUME 1. NEW YORK; THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1932-54 unknown
32258LONDON THE AUTHOR 1837. FIRST EDITION SMALL OCTAVO 128 PAGES. VERY GOOD IN RED CLOTH LEATHER SPINE GILT 2 FOLDING MAPS AND A FRONTIS. MINOR FOXING TO PRELIMS THEN VERY CLEAN. NAME TO FEP AND BOOKPLATE OF ALDERMAN JOHN BROWN OF HULL TO FRONT PASTEDOWN. DUNN WAS AN 'ANIMAL PRESERVER' FROM HULL. A NICE COPY OF A VERY SCARCE WORK. LONDON, THE AUTHOR, 1837 hardcover
32332LONDON PORTER 1895. FIRST EDITION QUARTO THE LARGE PAPER VERSION WHICH WAS LIMITED TO 100 SUBSCRIBERS. TWO VOLUMES HALF LEATHER T.E.G. ILLUSTRATED BY THORBURN AND LODGE MAP TO THE REAR OF VOLUME 2. A HANSOME SET BUT WITH SEVERE SCUFFING TO THE LEATHER WITH SOME LOSS AT THE CORNERS. TIGHTLY BOUND AND CLEAN. FROM THE LIBRARY OF GERALD LONGLEY PARKER WITH HIS BOOKPLATE. HE WAS A SOLDIER AND SERVED AS THE PRIVATE SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNOR OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA AND WAS THE SON OF THE SIXTH EARL OF MACCLESFIELD. THE BOOKS WEIGH 5.6 Kg. VERY SCARCE. LONDON, PORTER, 1895 hardcover
32250LONDON VAN VOORST 1886. FIRST EDITION LARGE OCTAVO ORIGINAL BLUE BOARDS BEVELLED EDGES FOLDING COLOURED MAP AND TEXT ILLUSTRATIONS SOME COLOURED. 214 PAGES PLUS ADVERTS. SMALL INOFFENSIVE STAMP TO HALF TITLE. VERY MINOR FOXING BUT A VERY NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS SCARCE WORK. LONDON, VAN VOORST, 1886 hardcover
37533EDINBURGH LIZARS 1836. FIRST EDITION VOLUME 6 OF JARDINE'S NATURAL HISTORY. WITH A TOTAL OF 30 HAND-COLOURED PLATES BY LEAR NUMEROUS WOODCUTS. FRONTIS. OF BEWICK WITH A MEMOIR. NICELY BOUND IN HALF RED LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARDS MARBLED ENDPAPERS T.E.G. MINOR WEAR TO TOP AND BOTTOM OF SPINES. FIRMLY BOUND AND VERY CLEAN. A HANDSOME COPY. UNCOMMON. EDINBURGH, LIZARS, 1836 hardcover
39124NORWICH GREYFRIARS BOOKS AND PRINTS 1990. TWELVE COLOUR PLATES IN FINE CONDITION. A FACSIMILE OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION OF 1919 CONTAINED IN A CARDBOARD SLEEVE. MARSH HARRIER MONTAGU`S HARRIER GOLDEN EAGLE GOSHAWK KITE HONEY BUZZARD GYR FALCON HOBBY MERLIN AND KESTREL. LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES THIS BEING NUMBER 199. VERY SCARCE. NORWICH, GREYFRIARS BOOKS AND PRINTS, 1990 unknown
7558JOHN VAN VOORST. LONDON. 1843. FIRST EDITION THREE VOLUMES. FINE MODERN THREE QUARTERS MOROCCO BINDING. GILT. 520 TEXT WOODCUTS. A MOST HANDSOME SET. PREVIOUS OWNER'S BOOKPLATE. EXTRA POSTAGE WILL BE REQUIRED. JOHN VAN VOORST. LONDON. 1843 unknown
Z1-C-040-00354Sweet & Maxwell Ltd. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Sweet & Maxwell Ltd unknown
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
020321London: L. Upcott Gill Third edition not dated - 1887 . Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and 17 colour chromolithograph plates 22 plain plates several text illustrations. small thick octavo pp viii 431 1 advertisement page a little age-toning and very occasional fox spots very slightly used throughout an address and date on the half-title with the name neatly crossed out - "Geo. Bertie Bird Juy 8th 1897 Walton Rectory Loughborough" and a later signature - "H.H. Cousins 3rd ocober 1928" simply bound in plain green cloth of a later date. SCARCE. . Third edition. Cloth. Good. L. Upcott Gill 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
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
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
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
032374London : Caxton Publishing Company A good copy complete with 115 colour-printed plates in new quarter cloth binding with marbled boards. Undated but 1907/8. The plates by Henrik Gronvold and Frederick Frohawk are beautiful. The binding is 'as new' with new endpapers.Top page edges gilt remainder untrimmed. Contents - Vol I: 4 plates of eggs; title page; contents list; introduction; text with 56 plates; 210pp. Vol II: 4 plates of eggs; title page; contents; text with 51 plates; appendix; index 215pp. Text pages with some spotting particularly to top margins and light toning towards edges. Plates with tissue guards some of which are creased or with slight damage. Plates themselves clean and mostly not affected by spotting. Contents slight dusty smell on opening. Caxton Publishing Company hardcover
2013x-0415734517Routledge 2013. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 324 pages. 8.60x5.60x1.10 inches. Routledge hardcover
2008cdb11New York: Rizzoli International Publications Inc. VG : in very good condition with dust jacket and illustrated slipcase. 2008. First edition thus. Green hardback cloth cover. 390mm x 310mm 15" x 12". 670pp. 1008 colour plates. Heavy book extra shipping needed for overseas. . Rizzoli International Publications Inc 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
41011LONDON THRESHOLD/HARRAP1987. LIMITED TO 350 COPIES SIGNED BY PETER OLNEY THIS BEING NUMBER 65. TEXT BY OLNEY AND INTRODUCTION BY SCOTT. WITH 60 VERY FINE TIPPED-IN FULL PAGE PLATES IN COLOUR A BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE ON JONES APPENDIX GLOSSARY INDEX. OBLONG FOLIO BOUND IN HALF BLUE LEATHER OVER BLUE CLOTH. A NEAR FINE COPY - THE GILT TITLE ON THE SPINE HAS FADED THERE ARE A FEW FOXING SPOTS. THE BOOK WEIGHS 5.3 Kg SO POSTAGE AT COST. LONDON, THRESHOLD/HARRAP,1987 hardcover
37534EDINBURGH LIZARS 1837. FIRST EDITION TWO VOLUMES. VOLUMES 7 AND 8 OF JARDINE'S NATURAL HISTORY. WITH A TOTAL OF 64 HAND-COLOURED PLATES NUMEROUS WOODCUTS. FRONTIS. OF BRUCE WITH A MEMOIR. NICELY BOUND IN HALF RED LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARDS MARBLED ENDPAPERS T.E.G. MINOR WEAR TO TOP AND BOTTOM OF SPINES. FIRMLY BOUND AND VERY CLEAN. A HANDSOME COPY. UNCOMMON. EDINBURGH, LIZARS, 1837 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
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