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1907007108New York: The Outing Publishing Company 1907. Clean bright spine. Red cloth with gold-stamped title. Previous owners' names in ink on front flyleaf plates and title page blind-stamped. Color frontis by L. A. Fuertes 2 color and 6 b&w plates. A history of the passenger pigeon and its extinction the pigeon industry and old-time hunters and the last efforts at its conservation with essays from the works of Wilson Audubon William Brewster Ruthven Deane Robert Ridgeway etc. 240 pages. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No DJ. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Outing Publishing Company Hardcover
1994027279London: World Working Group on Birds of Prey and Owls 1994. Soft cover. Good. 0x0x0. Good copy with highlighting to a few pages overall shelfwear foxing and a few pages that are slightly larger than the rest from a publishing mistake does not affect text. World Working Group on Birds of Prey and Owls paperback
32313LONDON NICKISSON 1842-50. FIRST OCTAVO EDITION SEVEN VOLUMES COMPLETE VERY NICELY BOUND IN HALF GREEN LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARDS MARBLED ENDPAPERS RAISED BANDS GILT TITLES. WITH 432 PLATES MOSTLY COLOURED 322 OF BIRDS AND 110 OF EGGS. VOLUME 1 HAS BEEN MORE RECENTLY REBOUND THAN THE OTHERS BY MALTBYS OF OXFORD BUT IN THE SAME STYLE. WITH THE BOOKPLATE OF COSMO NEVILL. EXCEPTIONALLY CLEAN AND TIDY. VERY SCARCE. LONDON, NICKISSON, 1842-50 hardcover
1842g9566London: G W Nickisson; George Willis; Willis & Sotheran. G: in good condition. Covers rubbed and scuffed. Ownership label on paste-downs. Plates VG. 1842. First Edition. Green hardback half-leather cover. 230mm x 140mm 9" x 6". 1501pp plates. 432 of 435 plates ciomprising 321 hand-coloured plates of birds 8 plain plates and 103 hand coloured plates of eggs. Volume I published by G W Nickisson in 1842; Volumes II III IV and V published by George Willis and Volumes VI and VII by Willis and Sotheran between 1853 and 1857. Heavy set - extra shipping needed for overseas. . G W Nickisson; George Willis; Willis & Sotheran hardcover
1990000655T & A D Poyser 1990. T & A D Poyser. 1990 1st edition hardback. Very Good/Very Good. 240 x 160mm 246 pages B/w photos line drawings by Dafila Scott maps. Book Condition: Very good clean blue boards tight binding. Jacket Condition: Very good clean bright not faded not creased not clipped. Comments: An excellent monograph for one of the most evocative seabirds of the North Atlantic the Manx Shearwater also including details of other Shearwater and Petrel species. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Dafila Scott. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. T & A D Poyser Hardcover
2002002118London: Collins 2002. Fine. 8vo. 220 x 150mm 310 pages. Colour and b/w photos line drawings. Book condition: Fine clean bright not faded not creased tight binding no inscriptions. Comments: A classic New Naturalist title on Moth species their biology habitats conservation. Moths are the second-largest order of organisms after beetles worldwide!!. First Edition in paperback. Soft Cover. Fine/-. Illus. by -. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collins Paperback
33456LONDON THOMAS NELSON 1876. NEW EDITION REVISED FINELY BOUND IN FULL BURGANDY LEATHER ELABORATE GILT TO THE SPINE AND BOARDS RAISED BANDS ALL EDGES GILT. WITH 210 FINE ILLUS. BY GIACOMELLI. VICTORIAN DEDICATION AND TWO BOOKPLATES. MINOR WEAR TO LEATHER. A VERY ATTRACTIVE COPY. LONDON, THOMAS NELSON, 1876 hardcover
1881j6487Paris: Libraire Hachette. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Minor scuffing to leather at corners and spine. Ribbon marker. Marbled endpapers. Aeg. 1881. Fourteenth Edition. Green hardback half-leather cover. 280mm x 200mm 11" x 8". 424pp. B/w illustrations some full page some within the text. Text in French. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . Libraire Hachette 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
44471LONDON HENRY SOTHERAN AND CO. 1894. SECOND EDITION. A VERY GOOD COPY IN LIGHT BROWN DECORATED BOARDS. IT HAS BEEN RE-SPINED. ILLUSTRATING THE HABITS MODES OF CAPTURE STAGES OF PLUMAGE AND THE HYBRIDS AND VARIETIES WHICH OCCUR AMONGST THEM. LONDON, HENRY SOTHERAN AND CO., 1894 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
1967045550New York: Random House 1967 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st US Edition. "In the fall of 1958 the author and her husband Kenneth Millar better known as author Ross Macdonald moved into a house in a wooded canyon just outside Santa Barbara California. The place was alive with birds and in the ensuing years of observtion and study Mrs. Millar tabulated 112 species. This book tells the story of her adventures with the birds and the other wild things that live in the canyon." Name of previous owner inside front cover else fine. Random House hardcover
57412965-20Used - Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. unknown
8470222-6Used - Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. unknown
1892036071London: Gurney & Jackson 1892. Book. Illus. by G.E Lodge Victor Prout. Near Fine. Hardcover. Second Edition Revised. 8vo. Pp. 2 xxvi 271 4; large fold out map in text and plate illustrations throughout by Lodge and others. Green cloth binding very good and bright light rubbing to joints. Contents clean and tight no foxing original yellow end papers. Freddie Spencer Chapman's copy with his pencil initials and date to the front free end paper. A clean near fine copy. F. S. Chapman needs little introduction - war time hero and ornithologisht with an extraordinary story: for over three years during the second world war he "blew up trains bridges and enemy soldiers in the jungles of Malaya all the while studying birdlife and sending home seeds". Gurney & Jackson Hardcover
1892003532London: R. H. Porter 1892. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp 329. "With 174 b/w illustrations whereof 140 are original drawings" Original green cloth binding with gilt lettering a little edge-wear a few marks and general rubbing. Contents clean and tight no inscriptions or foxing. A good to very good copy of this rare Mivart work. R. H. Porter Hardcover
1993LL-b864-08New Haven: Yale University Press 1993 8vo. Soft cover. 393 p. Index of genera and English names. Monroe and Sibley provide a checklist of 9702 species of birds including subspecies. Edgewear. Very good. Yale University Press paperback
1089LONDON ACADEMIC PRESS 1972. FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD COPY WITH DUSTWRAP. ILLUSTRATED WITH BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS AND TABLES. LONDON, ACADEMIC PRESS, 1972 unknown
1966002611New York: Academic Press 1966. Photos illls. many maps 1 folding including endpapers biblio 424pp. Owner's signature. "An eco-geographical discusion". First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Academic Press Hardcover
1975051347New York: Dept. of Ornithology American Museum of Natural History 1975. Book. Near Fine. Pamphlet Binder. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Copied typescript in pamphlet binder. x2072 pp. Light wear to binder. Contents clean and unmarked. Dept. of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History Paperback
1867fom05acLondon: Groombridge and Sons. G : in good condition. Covers rubbed. Spines faded. Blank labels to front paste-downs. Staining to eps of volume II. Occasional light foxing. 1867. Reprint. Grey-blue gilt decorated hardback cloth cover. 260mm x 180mm 10" x 7". iv 156pp; iv 148pp; iv 140pp plates. 225 colour plates. Heavy set extra shipping needed for overseas. . Groombridge and Sons hardcover
1893023361Huddersfeild & London: Various publishers 1893. Four volumes of this publication - rare as are all of Seth Lister Mosley's works. FIRST VOLUME. comprises Vol II number 13 July 1983 to number 24 June 1884; bound with Volume III number 24 July 1894 to Number 30 December 1894. Possibly lacking part 26 but the months are consecutive so almost certainly a printing error. SECOND VOLUME Vol IV number 31 January 1895 to Volume IV number 53 November 1896. Added at the rear is Swanton's paper on British Puff-Balls 6pp and Mosley's 'Catalogue of British Birds Nests and Eggs' 46pp. Signature again of Albert John Barnes contemporary cloth but hinges completely broken so the text block is sound but detached. THIRD VOLUME Volume VII number 67 January 1898 to number 80 February 1899 plus extra 57 pp of articles including Swanton's Monograph of British Boleti 13pp. Includes 6 colour plates of moths one of fungi and two of beetles. FOURTH VOLUME Volume X number 103 January 1901 to number 114 December 1901 text block completely detached from the contemporary cloth. Includes 5 colour plates two botanical two of lichens and one of moths. Some of the plates are certainly hand-coloured though fairly simple whilst others may be colour printed. There are other engraved illustrations within the text. Extremely scarce. First Edition. Cloth. Fair. Various publishers 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
1957nmn15London: Collins. VG: in very good condition with dust jacket. Slight fade to jacket. 1957. First Edition. Green hardback cloth cover. 210mm x 140mm 8" x 6". 176pp. Jacket complete and not clipped. . Collins hardcover
1835h0116caLondon: Whittaker & Co. G : in Good condition. Cover rubbed with corner wear. Spine rubbed with wear ar joints. Title page stained. 1835. Second Edition. Black hardback half-leather cover. 190mm x 120mm 7" x 5". 391pp ads. B/w in-text illustrations plus colour frontispiece title-page vignette and 8 pages of illustrations all hand coloured. . Whittaker & Co hardcover