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190 pages. "Specially selected and expertly reproduced, the (colour) engravings in this book are taken from one of only five complete folios of Audubon's work left in Canada... Celebrates the birds found in Canada, particularly those he painted while actually travelling here (in 1833)." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An exceptional copy. Book
603 pages. Illustrated with black and white photos and diagrams. A wonderful overview of Nova Scotia over 100 years ago. The forty-one chapters include: History; Geology; County Histories; Mines; Indians; Tourism; Fisheries; Apple Culture; Agriculture; Institutions of Learning; Timber and Lumber Resources; Paper Pulp Resources; Quarries; Game Law; Birds; Manufacturing Concerns; Institutions for the Blind and the Deaf and Dumb; Governance; The Common School System. Prior owner's details neatly written atop front free endpaper otherwise unmarked. Blue cloth attractively adorned with black decoration upon front board and bright gilt lettering upon backstrip. Binding intact with minor spine slant. Moderate wear. A quality copy of this informative work. Book
178 pages. Gilt lettering upon forest green textured boards. Printed on glossy stock. Many black and white photos. "...My reason for writing this book is... simply because many friends have requested me to put into book form at least a portion of my interesting experiences." - from Introduction. Tissue-protected photographic portrait of author/subject. Usual library markings. Average wear. A sound copy of this wonderful piece of vintage Canadiana. Book
52 pages. Features: Lovely full page black and white photographic portrait of Miss Fiona Myddelton; Birds of a Desert Island - Desnoeufs Island in the colony of the Seychelles; From scythe to mowing machine; Dogs that Cannot Bark - Basenjis of the "Of Syngefield" Strain; Some problems of tree growth - interesting photos; The Father of Shooting - Colonel Peter Hawker (1786-1853), one of the greatest wild-fowlers of all time; Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire; Admiral Keppel's Column; Problems of Wintering Sheep; Britain's Painted Cave - the Gower Cliffs in South Wales, where Bacon Hole is situated; Many interesting real estate advertisements. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: In Search of the "Hairy Frog" - an expedition into the British Cameroons collecting specimens of wild animals and birds for zoos, with photos; The Navy Pay-Roll Robbery - an audacious hold-up of a large Navy payroll in Malta, G.C.; Luck of the Game - a story from an original prospector in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast; Ozark Excursion - hunting with the hillmen, including one who uses a crossbow and another who 'catches fish with his teeth'; The Lost Mine (Part 2) - Somewhere in Panama lies Tisingal, reported to be one of the richest gold-mines ever worked by the Spaniards; The Cowrie Shell - White men in Africa usually scoff at the native's faith in charms and amulets; My Friend Bull; House-to-House; Japanese Net Balls (Glass Floats); Brown's Donkey - a strange incident from the North African desert; The Rest-House - a tale from the Eastern Himialayas; and more. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
Features: Two against the ocean, including a polio victim; White Man Fire-Walker - Methodist Missionary The Rev. Eric. L. Robinson; Pilot's 300 Crashes into Balloon Cables - continuing 'The Sky's No Limit," the first authentic story of the test pilots; The Mongoose - killer of Cobras; I Joined the Rush for Uranium - The Colorado Plateau; Rendezvous with Maneaters - Adventurer's Paradise Continued; Captured by Chinese Pirates - the steamer Ningpo; Below Zero Road - The Alaska Highway; The Trail of Crab Oonaka; Search for the Whooping Crane - trailing two wild birds for over 2,000 miles; We found unknown mountains - Nepalese adventures; The Beads of Assa - Somali adventure; Up-Helly-A - Norse Festival; and more. Backstrip missing; Covers partially loose. Still a worthy copy. Book
18 pages. Features: Old Vienna ad inside front cover features photo of trophy grizzly and discussion of their location in B.C.; Mailbag; Last Day Luck - a moose hunting tale; Ice Fishing - it's solid water fishing; Sportsman's Corner - includes photo of Reg. Carver; The .22 Sporting Rifle; Some Uncommon Birds; Photo of Mrs. Betty Crossley with young Gary Cleven; Photo of Fred Langeler, Sr.; Photo of "Joe" Whitmore who is retiring; Home Game Management; Off Season Shooting Practice; Boats; Back cover ad by the Department of Recreation and Conseration explains that 1960 Angling licenses are now required; Many additional nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
Pages 119- 152 plus sixteen pages of nice vintage ads. Features: Saskatchewan's Oil and Gas - major article with many excellent photos including Tommy Douglas on the podium; Some Birds of Canada; The Canals of England; The Craft School of Fundy; Voyages of Discovery - British Columbia; Canadair one-page ad with illustration of their Sparrow II guided missile; and more. Faint date stamp atop front cover, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features/Photos: Special section on Kenya and Zanzibar; sad fate of the Royal Arsenal; Excavations at Aphrodisias in Caria in southwest Turkey; Centerfold - 'zillions' of guano birds, cormorants and boobies in Peru; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Quality copy. Magazine
38 pages. Features: King Hussein's First State Visit to Britain; Need Parents Fear Comprehensive Schools? Hardwick Hall - first in a series on the great houses of England"; Birds and Beasts of the Greek Coinage; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
1908RO40138573Rosoor-Delattre - Revue Colombophile. 1908. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Tâchée, Dos fané, Intérieur acceptable. 192 pages. Illustré de nombreuses photo-gravures en noir et blanc dans le texte. Etiquette blanche en coiffe de pied.. . . . Classification Dewey : 636.6-Oiseaux de cage et de volière
Rosoor-Delattre - Revue Colombophile. 1908. In-12 Carré. Broché. Etat d'usage. Tâchée. Dos fané. Intérieur acceptable. 192 pages. Illustré de nombreuses photo-gravures en noir et blanc dans le texte. Etiquette blanche en coiffe de pied. Calendrier. Les Colombophiles français. M. Maurice Lecaron, Paris. M. Auguste Pierman, Denain. M. F.L. Griveaud, Nemours. Les Distinctions de 1907. Le Code de l'Amateur colombophile. M. Ernest Deshayes. M. J. Lebel, Levallois-Perret. Petit Traité de Colombiculture pratique...
1904038288London: Brumby & Clarke Limited 1904. Book. Illus. by Frohawk F. W. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to 22 x 29cm. "With 24 Coloured plates illustrating 475 specimens"; pp. 105. The 254 chromolithographic plates are all very good and with the original tissue guards a few marked; half-title & title pages. Original two-tone green cloth binding with gilt lettering very good with a little general wear and rubbing only. Contents clean and tight inscription in ink to the top of the half title dated 1904 original end-papers toned and a little brittle around the edges slight spotting to title page and the odd page edge some rusting to staples running down the spine of the first few gathers plates clean. A very good copy. The plates used in different editions of this work are not standard and vary in quality this particular edition includes plates printed to a high standard and importantly the eggs are illustrated with shadows giving a particularly 3-dimensional look: they are in our opinion superior to some earlier editions. Brumby & Clarke Limited Hardcover
10027LONDON. BRITISH MUSEUM NATURAL HISTORY. 1970. FOREWORD BY ERNST MAYR. THIS IS THE FIRST ATTEMPT TO SHOW THE CONTINUING PROCESS OF EVOLUTION BY MEANS OF PLOTTING ON ONE MAP THE DISTRIBUTION OF SPECIES BELIEVED TO BE IMMEDIATELY DESCENDED FROM A COMMON ANCESTOR. THE BOOK CONTAINS 439 MAPS AND COVERS 900 SPECIES OF AFRICAN PASSERINES. LARGE FORMAT FINE COPY IN FINE DUSTWRAP. PRICE CLIPPED. SMALL NEAT INSCRIPTION. LONDON. BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). 1970. unknown
24344MELBOUNE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1990. FIRST EDITION QUARTO FINE COPY IN FINE DUSTWRAP.WITH SLIGHT FADING TO SPINE. AUSTRALIAN PELICAN TO DUCKS. COLOUR PLATES PAINTED BY J.N. DAVIES. MELBOUNE, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1990 unknown
1834033165<p>Edinburgh: W H Lizars 1834 A very good copy of the 1st edition in the original publisher's cloth binding with 30 hand coloured plates. Contents with: black and white frontispiece portrait of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles; hand coloured vignette title page with red grouse; 2 further title pages; advert; contents listing; Memoir of Raffles; text with 30 hand coloured plates; and publisher's catalogues bound at the rear. The binding has been rebacked relaying the original spine and is sound and tight. The spine and the board edges are slightly sunned. The bottom corners of both boards have small bumps; top corners lightly turned. The original green endpapers are present with professional repair at the joints. The text is largely unopened and the text paper is toned towards the margins. The plates are very well coloured and have some toning to top page edges. The tissue guards to plates 6 and 26 are present but detached. Plate 17 has very toned paper particularly at the edges and there is professional paper repair to the side edge. The tissue guard to the frontispiece has been replaced.</p> W H Lizars hardcover
1842033183<p>EDINBURGH: W H LIZARS 1842 A good to very good copy of the 1st edition in the original publisher's cloth binding with 34 hand coloured plates. With volume listing; frontispiece portrait of Rev Dr Walker; hand coloured vignette title page showing a spaniel and a heron; 2 further title pages; publisher's advert; contents listing; Memoir of Dr Walker; and text with black and white illustrations and 34 hand coloured plates bound at the rear. The binding has been rebacked relaying the original spine and the end papers repaired and retained. The binding has fading to spine and board edges and light wear to corners. The end papers have some marking at the joints where repaired. The text pages are generally clean with light toning and occasional marking and spotting mainly at the edges. All the plates are tissue-guarded and are very well coloured. There is some offsetting to the guards and the occasional nibble to the guard edge. There is an old crease to plate 29 and its tissue guard not affecting the image.</p> W H LIZARS hardcover
1839033179<p>EDINBURGH: W H LIZARS 1839 A very good copy of the 1st edition of Part II of Birds of Great Britain and Ireland in the original publisher's cloth binding. This volume covers a range of familiar birds from bullfinches to wrens. Contents: volume listing; half title; black and white frontispiece portrait of William Smellie with tissue guard; hand coloured vignette title page showing a robin; 2 further title pages; publisher's advert; contents listing; Memoir of William Smellie; text with black and white illustrations and 30 hand coloured plates bound at the rear. The original binding has been rebacked relaying the original spine and is sound and tight. There is slight scuffing to the boards which have light wear to corners and edges. There is fading to the spine and to the board edges. The original green endpapers are present with professional repair at the inner joints. Text and plate pages have light toning at the margins. The plates are clean and well coloured. The paint has splashed however in a couple of places eg at plate 16 where there is a small blue splot at the bottom of the plate and a blue splash at the back of the previous plate affecting the plate edge. Plates are without tissue guards and there is some offsetting to the backs of previous plates.</p> W H LIZARS hardcover
32229LONDON VAN VOORST 1866-70. TWO VOLUMES. FIRST EDITION ORIGINAL GREEN BLIND-STAMPED CLOTH SOME FOXING TO PRELIMS OF VOLUME 1 BUT A CLEAN AND VERY GOOD SET. BOOKPLATE AND CATALOGUE ADVERT TO FRONT PASTEDOWN OF VOLUME 1. LONDON, VAN VOORST, 1866-70 hardcover
1969018171Wynnewood: Livingston Publishing Company 1969. HEAVY. xiv 306pp illustrated throughout by tipped-in full-page colour photographs with five paintings by American bird illustrator John C Yrizarry line drawings distribution maps monochrome photographs bibliography gazetteer index. There is an erasure mark prev person's name at the centre of the front flyleaf. Original green cloth boards in dust-jacket. In this Joseph M Forshaw's definitive study of Australian parrots a detailed description of every species is provided together with information on classification and nomenclature flight call habitat distribution habits and movements. Details of the care and housing of parrots in captivity are also given. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Folio. Livingston Publishing Company Hardcover
002080Ithaca: Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology A complete run of this annual with it's scholarly essays and artwork by the best contemporary bird artists. Individual issues available inquire. Soft Cover. Very Good. Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology Paperback
1886013815New York: American Ornithologists' Union 1886. Ex-library edgewear hinges repaired with linen tape 392 pages. Binding is tight insides clean. Original binding. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Ex-Library. American Ornithologists' Union Hardcover
1979003784Kent: Volair Books 1979. 5 Volume Set. 655 color plates 4664pp. Published for the National Audubon Society as 75th Anniversary Edition. Two spines have vertical creases due to the thickness of the books and binding method otherwise in fine condition. Very heavy. Hard Cover. Very Good. Volair Books Hardcover
201265162Villegas Editores. Fine. 2012. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 9588306760 . Stiff square unmarked book in clean orange slipcase with the barest hint of shelflife. About new. A stunning bird book. ; 0 X 0 X 0 inches; 552 pages; The core of the book is a breathtaking visual journey through Colombia's birds organized thematically rather than as a strict field guide. It explores habitats like cloud forests páramos mangroves and llanos showcasing representative species through Cooper's masterful photographs. Highlights include: Iconic Families: Hummingbirds colibríes in hovering flight their jewel-like throats flashing; colorful tanagers parrots and toucans amid foliage; elusive antpittas and antbirds in understory shadows. Ecological Insights: Discussions on behaviors such as foraging mating displays and migration illustrated with dynamic shots of flocks in formation or solitary raptors soaring. Biodiversity Spotlight: Close-ups reveal plumage intricacies from the emerald sheen of quetzals to the crimson of cock-of-the-rock emphasizing how climate and geography drive speciation. Expert texts provide concise yet engaging facts: evolutionary adaptations vocalizations and conservation status drawing on ornithological research without overwhelming the lay reader. The designclean layouts full-bleed images and subtle bilingual captionsmakes it replayable like flipping through a gallery of living art. . Villegas Editores hardcover
19770008484Boston: David R. Godine 1977. First Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio 406 pages half red morocco cloth raised bands of spine scuffed in matching publisher's slipcase in near-fine condition. <br/><br/>Copy no. 378 of only 400 in the Collector's Edition each with an original lithograph by Lansdowne signed commissioned only for this issue. Printed by Martino Mardersteig on Magnani of Pescia for this edition. Colophon signed by Ripley and Lansdowne. David R. Godine hardcover
