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Former library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and without marking of any kind. Unpaginated with 39 examples, with Category, Characteristics, Voice, Food, Breeding and Distribution and habitat listed. Book shows very light general wear, color photos. photos.
Bella incisione acquarellata a mano coeva della fine del 1800, inizi 1900 tratta dall'importante opera di ornitologia "A history of British Birds" di Morris. L'opera venne pubblicata in diverse edizioni dal 1851 al 1903. Morris è noto per aver scritto opere di storia naturale e in particolare di ornitologia. L'incisione rappresenta il Cursorius cursor. Testo in lingua inglese. L'incisione è montata su un elegante passepartout In buone condizioni. TECNICA: incisione COLORE: acquarellatura a mano coeva DIMENSIONI PASSEPARTOUT: cm 19x26 DIMENSIONI INCISIONE: cm 11x17 EPOCA: fine XIX secolo, inizi XX secolo. Beautiful print coloured by hand with aquarello of the end of 1800, first years of 1900 taken from the important work of ornythology "A history of British Birds" by Morris. The work was published in different editions from 1851 until 1903. Morris is famous because he wrote different works of natural history in particular of ornythology. The engraving represents the Courser. Text in english language. The engraving is mounted in an elegant passepartout. In good conditions. TECHNIQUE: Engraving COLOUR: coeval colouring with aquarello by hand PASSEPARTOUT SIZE: cm 19x26 PRINT'S SIZE: cm 11x17 PERIOD: end of XIX century, first years of XX century
Bella incisione acquarellata a mano coeva della fine del 1800, inizi 1900 tratta dall'importante opera di ornitologia "A history of British Birds" di Morris. L'opera venne pubblicata in diverse edizioni dal 1851 al 1903. Morris è noto per aver scritto opere di storia naturale e in particolare di ornitologia. L'incisione rappresenta il falco pennacchiolo occidentale. Testo in lingua inglese. L'incisione è montata su un elegante passepartout In buone condizioni. TECNICA: incisione COLORE: acquarellatura a mano coeva DIMENSIONI PASSEPARTOUT: cm 24x31 DIMENSIONI INCISIONE: cm 13,5x21 EPOCA: fine XIX secolo, inizi XX secolo. Beautiful print coloured by hand with aquarello of the end of 1800, first years of 1900 taken from the important work of ornythology "A history of British Birds" by Morris. The work was published in different editions from 1851 until 1903. Morris is famous because he wrote different works of natural history in particular of ornythology. The engraving represents the Honey buzzard. Text in english language. The engraving is mounted in an elegant passepartout. In good conditions. TECHNIQUE: Engraving COLOUR: coeval colouring with aquarello by hand PASSEPARTOUT SIZE: cm 26x19 PRINT'S SIZE: cm 15x9 PERIOD: end of XIX century, first years of XX century
Bella incisione acquarellata a mano coeva della fine del 1800, inizi 1900 tratta dall'importante opera di ornitologia "A history of British Birds" di Morris. L'opera venne pubblicata in diverse edizioni dal 1851 al 1903. Morris è noto per aver scritto opere di storia naturale e in particolare di ornitologia. L'incisione rappresenta la strolaga minore. Testo in lingua inglese. L'incisione è montata su un elegante passepartout In buone condizioni. TECNICA: incisione COLORE: acquarellatura a mano coeva DIMENSIONI PASSEPARTOUT: cm 17x27 DIMENSIONI INCISIONE: cm 11x16,5 EPOCA: fine XIX secolo, inizi XX secolo. Beautiful print coloured by hand with aquarello of the end of 1800, first years of 1900 taken from the important work of ornythology "A history of British Birds" by Morris. The work was published in different editions from 1851 until 1903. Morris is famous because he wrote different works of natural history in particular of ornythology. The engraving represents the red-throated diver. Text in english language. The engraving is mounted in an elegant passepartout. In good conditions. TECHNIQUE: Engraving COLOUR: coeval colouring with aquarello by hand PASSEPARTOUT SIZE: cm 17x27 PRINT'S SIZE: cm 11x16,5 PERIOD: end of XIX century, first years of XX century
Bella incisione acquarellata a mano coeva della fine del 1800, inizi 1900 tratta dall'importante opera di ornitologia "A history of British Birds" di Morris. L'opera venne pubblicata in diverse edizioni dal 1851 al 1903. Morris è noto per aver scritto opere di storia naturale e in particolare di ornitologia. L'incisione rappresenta il picchio tridattilo. Testo in lingua inglese. L'incisione è montata su un elegante passepartout In buone condizioni. TECNICA: incisione COLORE: acquarellatura a mano coeva DIMENSIONI PASSEPARTOUT: cm 20x26 DIMENSIONI INCISIONE: cm 11x17 EPOCA: fine XIX secolo, inizi XX secolo. Beautiful print coloured by hand with aquarello of the end of 1800, first years of 1900 taken from the important work of ornythology "A history of British Birds" by Morris. The work was published in different editions from 1851 until 1903. Morris is famous because he wrote different works of natural history in particular of ornythology. The engraving represents the three-toed woodpecker. Text in english language The engraving is mounted in an elegant passepartout In good conditions. TECHNIQUE: Engraving COLOUR: coeval colouring with aquarello by hand PASSEPARTOUT SIZE: cm 20x26 PRINT'S SIZE: cm 11x17 PERIOD: end of XIX century, first years of XX century
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and diagrams in the text; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with one short closed tear.
Book is in excellent condition, as new, no flaws. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind except for gift inscription inside front cover. 167 pages , heavily illustrated with graphs, charts and how-to instructions; subjects include: Hooking, Transfer Designs, Hook , Flowers, Leaves, Fruit, Animals, Birds, Abstract Designs, Dye , Fabrics, Backgrounds, Spot-Dyeing, Projects, Hex Sign, Floral Trio, Nottingham, Delft Daisies, etc.
Book and jacket in as new unread condition. 188pp. A study of Britain's most common bird although one most often unseen. Illustrated.
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.
P., anc. maison Morizot / Laplace, sans date (environ 1880). Grand in-8 relié demi chagrin rouge, dos à caissons ornés, plats en percaline rouge chagrinée, tranches dorées, IX-367 pages. Rousseurs éparses.
Features: Warships North - On Canada's roof a second year running; Arctic Fuel Cache - 450 Squadron's helicopters are harbingers; Surveillance of Soviet Force - watching Russians emerging as an ocean power; Summer of the Hard Look - Rembrance Day look at the Legion; Expanding roles and more servicewomen; Nursing in Europe; The Queen's Own Rifles - display at the Canadian Regimental Museum in Toronto at Casa Loma; Forces Band Inspiring; Air Show - Snow Birds and more; Whirlybird at Iroquois; This is a cycle - HMCS Yukon returns from 10 weeks in Japanese and Hawaiian waters; Cairns and Maxville - Pipe major's stirring school excursion; back cover features photo of Anne Murray in T-10 canopy harness at the PNE. Sound copy. Book
Features: Fling-Wing Soliders and their Rotary-Wing Birds; New Designs for America's Military; The Mach 2 Aerial Militia; The Rotary - rough on fighter pilots; Freeze or fry at Eglin; The Fabulous FAC's of Vietnam; Mike's Eight Hundred Dollar Warhawk; Military Aircraft 'Round the World; Military Pilot Requirements; United States Navy's First Fighters at Sea; Swing-Wing - the final leap forward?; The great load lifters; Fokker designs on foreign fronts; Leaves from a 'Lead-Sledders' logbook; A.F.'s Secret Electronic War; Recce Drone - The inside story; The RPV's are Coming!; Where did they all go?; Mediterranean Montage; Korean War Three-way ace; Big Eye in the Sky; The Emperor's Famous Phonix Fighters; World's fastest flying command post; Down the Drain?; Want an ancient air force?; Naval aviation's historical HQ; Convoluted quest for fighter engines; Can Kelly's Tigers contain foxbat?; Chopper warfare in Indochina; Marines New VTOL Harrier; Old USAF Planes in New Home; We fly the F-111; Mr. Mac's fantastic, formidible F-4; World Champ Airliner; 'The' Combat aircraft of World War Two; Serene Victor at 600 mph; The 'Spirit' - an individual creation; Destined for Immortality; Aeronautical History Sketchbook; Cutaway drawings of Wright biplane, Bleriot Cross-channel, Curtiss JN-4D Jenny, Ryan N-Y-P 'Spirit of St. Louis", Luftwaffe Messerschmitt 109E; Evolution of the Superfort; Pictorials of the Joint-Effort Jaguar and great planes at Ottawa; Cover photo of Sepecat Jaguar in Aerobatic dress; Sikorsky Grant; Boeing 747; The Guppies; Sorceress, Hot Canary, Shark; North American F-86D; Pitts Special; Stampe SV-4; Thorp T-18; North American B-25; Grumman F3F-2; Spitfire; Grumman Avenger; XB-70; Seadart, Seamaster; CF-105, TSR-2; Designers and pilots speak their minds - Curtis Pitts, Ed Granville and Pete Miller, Jimmy Doolittle, Jimmy Haizlip, Igor Sikorsky; Biplanes 'n' Things - Caudron G.3, Morane Parasol, Fleetwings Seabird, Vultee V-1A; How to build the Fokker D-7; How to make a model old-four monoplane; how to build and detail the magnificent jug; A 'copter goes to school; Model rocketry is serious business; how to build the icarus model rocket; how the airplane flies; fly power - power a model plane with a housefly!; The Hovercraft; Breaking into Balsa; How to build a Star Trek Diorama; How to camouflage and detail the supermarine spitfire Mk-1; How to customize the Lear Jet; How to build a ticket counter special Boeing 707; Monogram/AsM B-52 contest; how to paint camouflage with a brush; how to build and detail the Spad XIII; Hunting down the wolf pack; How to make the Battle of Britain Diorama; How to get an Aluminum finish that looks real; How to give decals that hand-painted look; how to build the Guillow Cessna; How to get the best from the Airbrush; Aerospace Symposium; How to build and display the Messerschmitt Bf 109F; Converting a Mosquito to a Hornet; How to build and detail the Apollo/Saturn; All the new models from the 32nd hobby trade show; 12 ways to better model building; Hunting down those rare birds; How to build a diorama; how to build and detail the confederate air force Mustang; how to draw aircraft, part I; How to simulate battle damage; how to superdetail the Hawker Typhoon; Baron Manfred von Richtoven's Fokker DR-1; How to build and detail the Tora Val type 99 - made in Hollywood!; how to build and superdetail major Lanoe Hawker's De Havilland DH 2; Here come de Judge; how to draw aircraft - part 2; the bombers that blitzed the monogram/AsM B-52 contest; how to build and detail the Black Bolt; how to build and detail the Mitsubishi 1MT in Torpedo Bomber; how to construct a 2$ rocket tracking device; how to detail the OV-1 A/C Mohawk - a Vietnam observer. Moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Book
Features: Vulcan - World's first Delta-winged bomber; Pt. II of the Lockheed P-58 Story - could it have been the best heavy fighter of WW II?; Germany's Slingshot Catapult Birds. Art: XP-58 3 View; Vulcan Mk 1 and Crew; Vulcan Mk II; Vulcan Mk II with Hound Dog Missiles. Water rippling to top portion. Book
Approx. 440 pages. A bi-monthly journal devoted to the birds of the Americas. Unmarked. Moderate to average wear. Book
59 pages. Features: Cover photo of Joe, a Greater Indian Hill Mynah owned by Jean Hawthorne of San Diego; Life with a Greater Indian Hill Mynah, by Jean M. Hawthorne; Hand Feeding Baby Parrots, by Ralph C. Small; Scrutinizing the Characteristic Behavior of Doves; The Survival of a strain and the influence of a hen, by Rodney Russell; Canary Color Breeding for the Beginner; Amazon Husbandry, by Ramon Noegel; Bird Talk from Shady Grove - feeding and cockatiels, by Jo Hall; The Canary Fancy, by Wallace Dean; True Experiences with Birds, by Gino Abbate; Parrots and Other Hook-Bills - update on the African Grey, by Arthur Freud; Life on the Top, by William Stafford; Exotic Cage-Birds, by Dr. Val Clear; Yesteryear's comments on Canaries, by H.P. Macklin. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
51 pages. Features: The Canary Fancy, by Wallace Dean; The Spotted Dove, by Paul Stevens; Bird Talk from Shady Grove - About Cockatiels, by Jo Hall; The Greater Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo - by Arthur Freud; My Visit to Janss Road, by J.R. Greene; The Roller Female, by Haig Sarkisian; Exotic Cage-Birds, by Dr. Val Clear; Showing Budgies - Environment, Population and Strangers - by Jim Duke; Advice to Bird-shop Owners, by Don Thomas; Visits with Australian Birds; Show Winners. Average wear. Unmarked. Small clipping from top edge of front cover. A sound copy. Book
40 pages. Outlines the development of Eskimo carving and shows the variations in form and subject of carving and other Eskimo crafts. Like the figures of animals, men and birds, all Eskimo handicrafts are characterized by simplicity and strength. Although all the work produced cannot be classed as art or sculpture, it never fails to provide a fascinating reflection of Eskimo life. Soiling and wear to illustrated covers. Unmarked. Includes many black and white illustrations. 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
66 pages. Features: Country Kitchen; Saskatchewan Mustard Farm; Pie Birds; Landscape Contest; Average wear. Prior owner's small ink stamp on front cover and table of contents. Sound copy. Book
Features: Remembering Lowell Thomas - patron of exploration; Northern Labrador Expedition - the Torngat Mountain Range; Birds, Bombs and Borders - migrants find refuge in disputed area north of the Sea of Galilee; From Sydney to Darwin - an Australian odyssey by motorcycle - Benjamin H. Shoemaker; In the Footsteps of the Dinosaurs - Peace River Canyon; Norwegian Explorers - their impact on Polar exploration; Obsidian Technology in Mexico - the cutting edge of an ancient culture; Journeys to the Gates of Hell - exploring the effects of nuclear explosions; Of Karyatids and Friezes - where marble was quaried for the age of Pericles. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Birds of Paridise of Papua New Guinea; Quest for an 8,000-meter peak; African Wildlife Conservation - The Eleventh Hour; Rio Azul - Maya City of the Dead; Antarctic Search for Meteorites; Projeto Flora Expedition to Araca, Brazil; On the Desert Trail of Lawrence of Arabia; Natural History Guide to Tropical Isles and Seas. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Carl Hoffman - Archival Notes; Encounters with the Killer Whale - studies of Orcinus orca behavior in the wild; Mosquito Shore (Honduras) Settlement Expedition - haunted by 18th-century colonist; Sending Fungi into Deep Space - aids study of space effect on living cells; Anyemaqen Shan Trek - birds and snow leopard survey; Six Weeks Down Under; First People of the Pacific Northwest - Fraser Canyon's earliest settlers placed at 9.000 years B.P.; China's New Frontier - oil discovered in Karamay, northwest China; Excerts from the Explorer's Journal of January-April 1932. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Fiery Vesuvius; The Peregrine Falcon's Return; Marine Chart Revisions Urged; In the Wake of Typhoon Pamela - survey of the effect on the Guan Reefs; Offshore Migration of Land Birds - Weather Fronts assist long-distance fliights; Meteors; Underwater Archeology - Photogrammetry of artifacts near Bimini; Native Iron in Western Greenland - discovery and interpreation; Semiotics; St. Lucia Expedition - to collect and photograph wildlife. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Hill Tribes of the Golden Triangle; Avalanche Rescue - a new method; The Ancient Silver-Lead Mines of Laurium, Greece; George Schaller's World; Harold Jefferson Coolidge; Oceanography - past, present, future; Cave paintings of Baha, Mexico; Names for the Birds; Jan Mayen; Follow-up on a Paleolithic site in India. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
48 pages. Undated. Circa 1930s. Contents: She was one of the Early Birds; Daddy Wouldn't Buy me a Bow Wow!; Brighton; Skylark!; Varmer Giles; Pansy Faces; The Galloping Major; There's A Girl Wanted There!; In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree; I Wouldn't Leave My Little Wooden Hut; Waiting at the Church; Shall I be an Angel Daddy?; Captain Ginjay, O.T.; The Singer was Irish; Following in Father's Footsteps; Fol-the-rol-lol. Pages yellowing. A worthy working copy. Book