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1996017540Staten Island New York: Maurizio Martino 1996. 2 volumes bound as 1 complete. Brand New in perfect condition. Bright clean square and tight. Sharp corners. NO rubbing. NO fading. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. NOT a library discard. Fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. n. d. but 1996. Reprint of Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History Zoological Series Publications 239 and 240. Illustrated with a few old prints and title page facsimiles. George Watson Cole called this the "greatest bird bibliography in the world." Buchanan/Fisher in Sitwell's FINE BIRD BOOKS p. 68 says this is a "wonderful" catalogue that "has never been excelled. It goes into immense detail over the dating of text and plates. Zimmer's researches.are of the utmost importance to collectors." There are 2000 annotated entries with collations. An indispensable reference. Bound in the original maroon cloth stamped in bright white. DAB 448. Cannon 131. Besterman 4364. 1996 reprint of the 1926 editions. Hardcover. New/No jacket as issued. 2 vols in 1: x 364; 365-706pp. [Maurizio Martino] Hardcover
196129975HBDJ PICTORIAL COLOR BOARDS 1961 STATED 1ST EDITION Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good with Tiny Extremities chips wear & TEARS This old book with dust jacket is clean solid and in great shape! This hardcover children's book has lots of awesome color illustrations. The binding is strong with all pages firmly attached. The pages are clean with no soiling writing or tears. The copyright page shows 1961 as the published date. This is definitely NOT a former library book. The dust jacket with very light chipping on the spine edges and there is a short 1/2 inch closed tear on the top and bottom of the front. I have placed the DJ in a fresh mylar jacket and this old book looks and feels great!. OVERSIZED IN COLOR DUSTJACKET.Once Upon a time a Small Striped Tiger & a Little Spotted Leopard searched For Dinner Deep in the Heart Of The Tangled Green Jungle. A WORLD OF STRIPES & SPOTS Of Brilliant Tropical Birds & CROCS PEACOCKS AS THEIR JUNGLE ADVENTURE UNFOLDS With The en tle Lullaby Quality that Youngest Children Especially Love. <br /> DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY , NY GARDEN CITY hardcover
1936biblio8959<p>xxiii 317 p. incl. facsim. front. plates. Includes: Illustrations Plates Facsimiles.</p><p>Nature</p> The MacMillan Company hardcover
1980035346London: Collins 1980. Book. Illus. by Woodcock Martin W. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. inscription from the author to Eric Hosking; pp. 176; illustrated in colour. Hardback binding near fine not faded unmarked. Contents clean and tight author's inscription to the reverse of the front free endpaper no other marks. A very good association copy. Eric Hosking OBE Hon FRPS FBIPP 1909-1991 was widely acknowledged as one of the world's most eminent natural history photographers "Perhaps the most famous bird photographer ever to have lived" Gemma Padley. He was pioneering and developed new techniques especially the use of flash photography and automatic shutter release technology which enabled him to photograph birds at night and freeze birds in flight for the first time. Famously when just 28 he lost an eye to a tawny owl while climbing up to a hide in rural Wales the event which inspired the ingeneous title of his autobiography "An Eye for a Bird" 1970. Over his exceptionally long career he photographed over 1800 species and his pictures have appeared in some 1000 books including the popular New Naturalist series of which he was photographic editor. Hosking was not only a photographer of birds but also a highly knowledgeable ornithologist. Collins Hardcover
1941035848London: H.F. & G. Witherby Ltd 1941. Book. Very Good. Paperback. Revised Edition. 8vo. This copy belonged to Eric Hosking and bears his bookplate to the front pastedown. 78 pages. Covers very good with light general wear. Contents clean and tight no inscriptions. A very good copy. Eric Hosking OBE Hon FRPS FBIPP 1909-1991 was widely acknowledged as one of the world's most eminent natural history photographers "Perhaps the most famous bird photographer ever to have lived" Gemma Padley. He was pioneering and developed new techniques especially the use of flash photography and automatic shutter release technology which enabled him to photograph birds at night and freeze birds in flight for the first time. Famously when just 28 he lost an eye to a tawny owl while climbing up to a hide in rural Wales the event which inspired the ingeneous title of his autobiography "An Eye for a Bird" 1970. Over his exceptionally long career he photographed over 1800 species and his pictures have appeared in some 1000 books including the popular New Naturalist series of which he was photographic editor. Hosking was not only a photographer of birds but also a highly knowledgeable ornithologist. H.F. & G. Witherby Ltd Paperback
19465269acLondon: H F & G Witherby Ltd. VG : in very good condition without dust jackets. Covers rubbed. Slight foxing. 1946. Fourth impression. Blue hardback cloth cover. 230mm x 160mm 9" x 6". xl 326pp; xiii 352pp; x 387pp; xiv 461pp; xii 381pp plates. 147 plates 126 in colour. Heavy book extra shipping needed for overseas. . H F & G Witherby Ltd hardcover
1999056232Canberra: Canberra Ornithologists Group. 1999. viii91pp index references appendices bw ills map. Pictorial card. Light edge wear to cover. The first update on Canberra's avifauna since 1963. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to. Canberra Ornithologists Group. Paperback
1972wil52London: Macdonald & Co Ltd. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket as issued. Slight marks to eps. 1972. Limited Edition 102/250. Blue hardback leather cover. 220mm x 140mm 9" x 6". 152pp. Signed by author on limitation page. . Macdonald & Co Ltd hardcover
1964724734PN. New. 1964. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
1970B441Yama-To-Keikoku Sha Co 1970. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Hardcover in very good condition with dust jacket. Text in Japanese. Species names in Latin and English. Color plates. Yama-To-Keikoku Sha Co hardcover
1970B440Yama-To-Keikoku Sha Co 1970. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Hardcover in very good condition with dust jacket. Text in Japanese. Species names in Latin and English. Color plates. Yama-To-Keikoku Sha Co hardcover
1907009571St. Louis MO: Privately Printed 1907. Presentation copy from Widman to the ornithologist Dr. Jonathan Dwight Jr. This is the scarce original edition not a reprint. Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Very Good. Privately Printed Hardcover
1954000725Mansfield CT: Maurizio Martino Publisher 1954. 800pp. ills. Reprint limited to 100 copies. Originally published in Perth 1954. Part I: History of Australian orntihology 1618-1850; Part II: Bibliography of Australian ornithology 1618-1950 with biographies of authors collectors and others. Index. Limited. Cloth. Very Good. Large 8vo. Maurizio Martino Publisher Hardcover
1937014667The Rumford Press 1937. Index fold-out map 126 pages. Erratta slip laid in. Very scarce. Follow up to the "Preliminary List" issued in 1924. Soft Cover. Very Good. The Rumford Press Paperback
1981021310Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Instition Press 1981. VERY HEAVY. Four volumes complete. vii483; v605; iv 631; vi 670 pages; indices bw ills maps. Or green cloth in jackets. Prev owners name in each volume all jackets covered in clear plastic 'contact' moderate foxing to page edges some pages and jacket of V4. All except Volume 1 are first editions- volume one is a second printing. Volume 1:Tinamidae Tinamous to Rynchopidae Skimmers 1981 ISBN 0874740630. Volume 2: Columbidae Pigeons to Pictidae Woodpeckers 1968 . Volume 3: Passeriformes: Dendrocolaptidae Woodcreepers to Oxyruncidae Sharpbills 1972 ISBN 087474122x . Volume 4: Passeriformes: Hirundinidae Swallows to Frngillidae Finches 1984 ISBN 087474122x . Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections Volume150 Parts I-IV. Compelte set of an important and massive work on the avifauna of Panama. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Smithsonian Instition Press Hardcover
1999007615Princeton University Press 1999. Color plates maps index 648 pages. Hard Cover. New/New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Princeton University Press Hardcover
1910010344Charleston Museum 1910. Handsome bookplate of the American ornithologistt Jonathan Dwight Jr. Errata and map present. Corners bumped some spine tip wear. NOT ex-library. Contributions from The Charleston Museum I 1910. Hardcover. Good. Charleston Museum Hardcover
1910011044Charleston SC: The Charleston Museum 1910. Ex-Library. VG. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Deaccessioned from non-circulating museum research library nominally marked/stamped clear-coated spine panel slightly toned. Light shelf wear. Neatly rebound in brown cloth lettered in gilt. Originally issued in wraps no longer present. xxi254 pp. double-page map at front bibliography index. Firm binding exceptionally clean text block. Scarce. The Charleston Museum Hardcover
1991002891Sydney Australia: Angus & Robertson 1991. Part of The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Some foxing to minor title page. 429 pages with colour illustrations. Covers 70 species of honeyeaters and several other groups of arboreal birds. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Angus & Robertson Hardcover
1990014599Academic Press 1990. Nice copy. Hardcover. Very Good. Academic Press Hardcover
1914038914London: Witherby & Co. 1914. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp. ix 3 305 3. Original dust jacket very good some wear and rubbing to the spine and spine ends. Green cloth hardback binding very good unmarked. Contents good and tight significant foxing/spotting to first and last few page and page edges. Bookplate belonging to Eric Hosking on the front pastedown. Eric Hosking OBE Hon FRPS FBIPP 1909-1991 was widely acknowledged as one of the world's most eminent natural history photographers "Perhaps the most famous bird photographer ever to have lived" Gemma Padley. He was pioneering and developed new techniques especially the use of flash photography and automatic shutter release technology which enabled him to photograph birds at night and freeze birds in flight for the first time. Famously when just 28 he lost an eye to a tawny owl while climbing up to a hide in rural Wales the event which inspired the ingeneous title of his autobiography "An Eye for a Bird" 1970. Over his exceptionally long career he photographed over 1800 species and his pictures have appeared in some 1000 books including the popular New Naturalist series of which he was photographic editor. Hosking was not only a photographer of birds but also a highly knowledgeable ornithologist. Witherby & Co. Hardcover
198675405<p>Ottawa: National Museums of Canada 1986. CAD No markingsNear Fine in Very Good dust jacket iwith minor scuffing to back panel; DJ is n mylar sleeve. This the revised eiditon of 1986. Pebby blue boards with silver titles map end papers 525pp index. Colour illus. by John A. Crosby. Line drawings by S.D. MacDonald. This boook appeared in 1966 and covers all 519 bird species known to occur in Canada or to have occurred within historic times. Over 420 species are illustrated in colour. There are distribution maps flight sihouettes and information on voice nesting habitat preferences distribution summaries peripheral localities food habits English French and scientific names. A heavy book. 6.0 JM LVR 200/b0. 2nd. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by CROSBY John; MacDonald S.D. 4to - over 9¾" - 12".</p> National Museums of Canada hardcover
1989006492Cambridge MA: Mit Press 1989. 320pp. ills. color plates. 47 northern owl species with detailed descriptions each illustrated with a beautiful full-page color plate and a page of b&w sketches. Distribution maps List of common and scientific names bibliography index. First American Edition. Cloth. As New/As New. Illus. by Cameron A. illustrator. 4to. Mit Press Hardcover
1907011994Sao Paulo Brazil: Museu Paulista/Typographia do Diario Official 1907. Ex-Library. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Deaccessioned from non-circulating museum library nominally marked/stamped little actual wear clear-coated spine panel slightly age-toned with handwritten call number on lower portion. Dark red cloth lettered in gilt not original to issue. Lightly rubbed at corners and spine extremities. xxxviii485 pp. color map at rear labeled Est. II one of 2 originally accompanying maps the other now lacking. Museu Paulista/Typographia do Diario Official Hardcover
197916013Kent UK: Volair Ltd. Fine. 1979. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 0931480396 . Folio 13" - 23" tall; 291 pages . Volair Ltd hardcover