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17703928Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale 1770. Hardcover. Good. Eight volumes of birds; incomplete but a nice run. Quartos. Contemporary leather bindings worn. A profusion of wonderful plates. Uncollated and sold as is. <br/><br/> De L'Imprimerie Royale hardcover
001920Audubon Society Vol. #1 1899 to vol. #42 1942. A complete run of this cornerstone of any ornithological library. Uniformly bound in green cloth with gilt lettering. Volumes 1-20 have a paper library call number label on the spine that looks like it can easily be soaked or peeled off. All have the name of a major institution in gilt lettering on bottom of spine. Inside just a bookplate in front library rules on a bookplate in the rear. No pockets. Bound with the covers. All the great bird artists are represented in its pages including G.M. Sutton R.T. Peterson Bruce Horsfall Allan Brooks L. A. Fuertes etc. Hard Cover. Very Good. Ex-Library. Audubon Society Hardcover
035990Painting. Illus. by Clifford Cyril Webb. Near Fine. Unframed. Signed by THE ARTIST. Limited. 53cm By 35cm. Clifford Cyril Webb British 1895-1972 'Eider Duck' limited edition colour linocut print numbered 4/20 signed and inscribed by the the artist unframed. The printed area is 53cm x 35cm sheet size is 59cm x 43cm. Printed on fine Japan paper laid on heavy weight woven paper. A few gentle creases to top right hand corner please see image that appear to have been present prior to being laid or as a result of being laid mininimal toning. A superb example of Clifford Webb's work. We have only been able to locate one other example of this work and that was limitation no. 3; it is clearly a scarce linocut and it is not unlikely that the full complement of 20 prints was ever produced. Clifford Webb prolific and renowned illustrator of books and magazines possibly most famous for designing the dust jackets and illustrating the Swallows and Amazon series of books by Arthur Ransome. A contemporary of Cyril Power and Sybil Andrews. Please contact us if you would like to view any of our artwork in person. 0. unknown
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
190658Peotone IL: Poultry Publishing Co. Fine with no dust jacket. 1906. First Edition. Cloth. Bound in two volumes. A total of 48 issues.; Ex-Library; 9x12; Was 1200 . Poultry Publishing Co. hardcover
1913mll03aLondon: Longmans Green & Co. G: in good condition without dust jackets. Covers marked and partially faded. Edge-wear. Browning to spines. Loss to top end of spine on volume I. Inner hinge cracking. Sporadic foxing to content and plates. Occasional thumbing and marking. Teg. 1913. Limited Edition 319/450. Maroon hardback cloth covers. 410mm x 320mm 16" x 13". xv 141pp; xii 164pp. Volume I: 32 plates 22 of which are coloured; Volume II: 42 plates 17 of which are coloured by Archibald Thorburn O Murray Dixon H Grönvold and the author. Very heavy set extra shipping needed for overseas. . Longmans, Green & Co hardcover
33301CALIFORNIA SOUTH MOULTON COMPANY 1923. FORMAT DE LUX ONE OF 539 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. COMPLETE IN FOUR OCTAVO VOLS. GREEN BUCKRAM A FINE SET. WITH 260 COLOUR HALFTONE OR PHOTOGRAVURE PLATES WITH CAPTIONED TISSUE-GUARDS HALFTONE ILLUS. THROUGHOUT THE TEXT. A TYPESCRIPT SLIP TIPPED IN VOLUME 1 READING ' ALL MISSING PLATES INSERTED AFTER BINDING' SUPERSEDING THE PUBLISHER'S SMALL STAMPED NOTICE 'THIS VOLUME IS LACKING A FEW OF THE EXTRA INSERTED PLATES AND IS SOLD AS IS'. THE COLOUR PLATES ARE BY MAJOR ALLAN BROOKS. PLEASE NOTE THAT EACH VOLUME WEIGHS NEARLY 4.5 Kg SO POSTAGE AT COST. CALIFORNIA, SOUTH MOULTON COMPANY, 1923 hardcover
26656MELBOURNE HILL HOUSE 1988. THE AUTHENTIC FACSIMILIE OF THE ORIGINAL PRODUCED UNDER LICENCE FROM THE BRITISH MUSEUM. IMPERIAL FOLIO 22 BY 15 INCHES ORIGINAL JAPANESE SAIFU RED CLOTH HAND-BOUND STAMP OF BRITISH MUSEUM TO FRONT BOARD IN GILT 56 FINE FULL-COLOUR PLATES A FINE COPY - NUMBERED 0334. POSTAGE WILL BE AT COST. MELBOURNE, HILL HOUSE, 1988 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
24160LONDON. LONGMANS GREEN AND CO. 1902. FIRST EDITION - LIMITED TO 600 COPIES OF WHICH THIS IS NUMBER 18. SMALL FOLIO BEAUTIFULLY REBOUND IN HALF GREEN MOROCCO MARBLED ENDPAPERS TEG WITH 6 PHOTOGRAVURES. 41 TISSUE-GUARDED COLOURED PLATES SOME BY THORBURN AND 25 OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS. SOME FOXING TO THE EDGES OF A FEW PLATES BUT A VERY NICE CLEAN AND FIRM COPY IN A LOVELY BINDING. A VERY HEAVY BOOK - EXTRA POSTAGE WILL BE REQUIRED FOR OVERSEAS. LONDON. LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO., 1902 unknown
28675MELBOURNE HILL HOUSE 1988. THE AUTHENTIC FACSIMILIE OF THE ORIGINAL PRODUCED UNDER LICENCE FROM THE BRITISH MUSEUM. IMPERIAL FOLIO 22 BY 15 INCHES ORIGINAL JAPANESE SAIFU RED CLOTH HAND-BOUND STAMP OF BRITISH MUSEUM TO FRONT BOARD IN GILT 56 FINE FULL-COLOUR PLATES A VERY GOOD COPY MINOR WEAR TO THE CLOTH AT ONE CORNER AND THE FOOT OF THE SPINE - NUMBERED 0160. POSTAGE WILL BE AT COST. MELBOURNE, HILL HOUSE, 1988 hardcover
1934034843London: The Foreign Bird League 1934. Book. Illus. by Cayley Neville; Rickman Philip; Vowles R. A.; Upson W. A.; Vane N. T.; Norris K. A.; Lawrence A. J.; Kinchington A. J.; Restall Robin L.; Orford Anthony; Heinzel H. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. An inclusive 65-year run from February 1934 to 1998 bound in 26 volumes. Volumes for 1934-1961 bound in original cloth the remainder in attractive half dark-green morocco. Most volumes have the original wrappers bound in but excluding the first few years. Dozens of colour plates of exotic birds many of which commissioned specialy for Foreign Birds and by well-known artists including Neville Cayley R. A. Vowles Lawrence and Heinzel but it is Vowells who has made the greatest contribution many of his plates outstanding. Generally in very good condition some of the earlier cloth bindings are slightly worn but remain strong contents clean and tight no inscriptions. An impressive and attractively bound run of this important avicultural magazine only missing the 1933 issues: runs as comprehensive as this are rarely offered. Please note this is a heavy set and a postal surcharge is likely to apply. The Foreign Bird League Hardcover
2022__0414098528Sweet & Maxwell 2022. Hardcover. New. 15 edition. 1618 pages. 9.45x6.46x2.52 inches. Sweet & Maxwell hardcover
1923d3600London: Longmans Green & Co. G: in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed with some fading anf marks. Foxing to page edges and sporadically to content. Browning to page edges. 1923. First Edition. Red hardback cloth cover. 390mm x 290mm 15" x 11". vii 79pp plates. Illustrated with 30 tissue guarded colour plates. Heavy book extra shipping needed for overseas. . Longmans Green & Co hardcover
1997d3728Ponteland: James Alder. VG: in very good condition with brown cloth covered slipcase with gilt motif. 1997. Signed limited edition 94/1200. Quarter-leather cover. 570mm x 395mm 22" x 16". 126pp. Illustrated with full page colour plates. Signed by author on limitations page. Heavy volume - extra shipping needed for overseas. . James Alder hardcover
1903c3929London: R H Porter. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Rubbed at joints and edges. Slight spine fade. 1903. First Edition. Red hardback cloth cover. 260mm x 180mm 10" x 7". xviii 281pp. Colour plates. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . R H Porter 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
2018__0414067495Sweet & Maxwell 2018. Hardcover. New. 14th edition edition. 1550 pages. Portuguese language. 9.57x6.50x2.20 inches. Sweet & Maxwell 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
1980018695London: Quartet Books 1980. VERY HEAVY. 309pp index bibliography appendices maps 120 full page col plates tipped in numbered signed print of Sooty Falcon loosely inserted. Tipped in foreword from the Sultan of Oman. Or full green Moroccan goatskin leather blocked in 24 carat gold. Edition limited to 500 copies of which this is #90 signed print has matching number signed by both author and artist on the limitation page. Included is the original prospectus issued by the publisher. Superbly produced and lavishly illustrated this was the first major work on Arabian birds for over 25 years and the first comprehensive book on the birds of any Arabian country. 120 superb full page plates plus a full page frontispiece adorn the text which covers over 380 species in detail. Introductory chapters cover the country its climate and physical geography the birds history of discovery habitats and more. A complete systematic list of families and appendices which include a checklist of 372 species and details of ringed birds recovered in Oman. A comprehensive bibliography and detailed scientific index. This magnificent volume retains its original publisher's shipping box. Signed by Author & Illustrator. First Edition Numbered & Signed. Hard Cover. Fine. Illus. by Woodcock Martin W. Elephant Folio. Quartet Books Hardcover
176620596Florence Italy: Giuseppe Vanni 1766. Print. Very good condition. Contemporary hand colored copper engraving. From the Natural History of the Birds Treated Systematically and Adorned with Copperplate Engraving Illustrations in Miniature and Life-Size 1766-1777. <br /> <br /> The work carries some interesting historical importance according to Peter Dance: "The production of its five massive folio volumes must have been one of the most remarkable publishing ventures ever undertaken in Florence. Begun in 1767 and based on birds taken from the collection of Giovanni Gerini it was completed ten years later. It was larger better engraved and more vividly coloured than any previous work on birds but these are not its only claim to fame. The attitudes of the birds themselves give this book its unique character. Strutting parading posturing and occasionally flying.are birds whose real-life counterparts would surely disown them and not without reason for Manetti seems in these pictures to be depicting the human comedy the habits and mannerisms of contemporary Italian society. His book may still be rated among the very greatest bird books if only for its magnificent comicality" S. Peter Dance The Art of Natural History: Animal Illustrators and their Work. London 1978.<br /> <br /> Approx. 10 5/8 x 13 1/2" platemark on watermarked paper measuring 14 1/2 x 18". The original images were drawn by Lorenzo Lorenzi Violante Vanni or Manetti himself. Giuseppe Vanni unknown
1886403147-11-1Local Birds. Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Local Birds unknown
32310LONDON PORTER 1895-6. FIRST EDITION QUARTO REBOUND IN HALF LEATHER NEW ENDPAPERS. THIS WORK WAS ISSUED IN FOUR PARTS FROM OCTOBER 1895 TO JULY 1896. IT COVERS THE LIMICOLAE PLOVERS SANDPIPERS. WITH 54 COLOURED PLATES LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS AND AN INDEX OF THE AUTHORS QUOTED. A HANDSOME BOOK CLEAN AND TIGHTLY BOUND. VERY SCARCE. LONDON, PORTER, 1895-6 hardcover
134921895-6 R.H. PORTER LONDON. FIRST EDITION. QUARTO. THIS WORK WAS ISSUED IN FOUR PARTS FROM OCTOBER 1895 TO JULY 1896. IT COVERS THE LIMICOLAE PLOVERS SANDPIPERS. IN THIS VOLUME THE PARTS HAVE BEEN BOUND TOGETHER IN RED HALF- LEATHER OVER MARBLE BOARDS. MARBLED END PAPERS AND TEG. FRONT END PAPER HAS BECOME DETACHED BUT IS COMPLETE. SOME FOXING THROUGHOUT. 54 COLOURED PLATES IN TOTAL. WITH LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS AND AN INDEX OF THE AUTHORS QUOTED. THE ORIGINAL COVERS OF THE PARTS HAVE BEEN BOUND IN. A HANDSOME AND UNUSUAL BOOK FROM THE LIBRARY OF SEPTIMUS HEDGES. VERY SCARCE. 1895-6 R.H. PORTER, LONDON hardcover
2025__0414127390Sweet & Maxwell Ltd 2025. Hardcover. New. 16 ed edition. Sweet & Maxwell Ltd hardcover