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34175OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. 1998. 2 VOLUMES IN FINE CONDITION. NO SLIPCASE. CONCISE EDITIONS. VOLUME 1: NON-PASSERINES AND VOLUME 2: PASSERINES. BASED ON THE HANDBOOK OF THE BIRDS OF EUROPE THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA. EXTRA POSTAGE WILL BE REQUIRED. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. 1998 unknown
28633LONDON BRITISH MUSEUM & OUP 1982. FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD HARDBACK WITH DUST WRAP. BOOK PRESENTS A COMPREHENSIVE AND WELL ILLUSTRATED ACCOUNT OF COTINGAS. TEXT DESCRIBES ORIGIN SOCIOBIOLOGY AND ANNUAL CYCLES. AN OUTSTANDING FEATURE ARE THE 22 COLOUR PLATES FROM PAINTING BY MARTIN WOODCOCK. LONDON BRITISH MUSEUM & OUP, 1982 hardcover
17973LONDON BRITISH MUSEUM & OUP 1982. VERY GOOD HARDBACK WITH DUST WRAP WHICH HAS FADING DOWN THE RIGHT HAND SIDE. BOOK PRESENTS A COMPREHENSIVE AND WELL ILLUSTRATED ACCOUNT OF COTINGAS. TEXT DESCRIBES ORIGIN SOCIOBIOLOGY AND ANNUAL CYCLES. AN OUTSTANDING FEATURE ARE THE 22 COLOUR PLATES FROM PAINTING BY MARTIN WOODCOCK. LONDON BRITISH MUSEUM & OUP, 1982 hardcover
1981001098Kuala Lampur: The Sabah Society /Malayan Nature Society 1981. 490pp. ills. Third edition revised by the Earl of Cranbrook. Species accounts with range status description habits.Glossary guide to place-names bibliography Malay and Iban names of birds index. With 47 color plates and 4 in monochrome. Fold-out map. Third Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Illus. by Hughes A.M. ill. 8vo. The Sabah Society /Malayan Nature Society Hardcover
15049R.P. SINGH FOR INTERNATIONAL BOOK DISTRIBUTORS. INDIA. 1984. FACSIMILE OF THE FIRST EDITION. VERY GOOD HARDBACK IN BLUE CLOTH - GILT TITLE ON SPINE AND FRONT BOARD DUSTWRAP COMPLETE BUT CRUMPLED. PLATES FROM PAINTINGS BY LIEUT. COMMANDER A.M. HUGHES RN. R.P. SINGH FOR INTERNATIONAL BOOK DISTRIBUTORS. INDIA. 1984 hardcover
24162LONDON OLIVER & BOYD 1953. SECOND EDITION. NEAR FINE COPY IN FINE PROTECTED DUSTWRAP. 31 COLOUR PLATES BY COMMANDER A.M.HUGHES. AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY. LONDON, OLIVER & BOYD, 1953 unknown
135331981 THE SABAH SOCIETY SABAH. NEAR FINE HARDBACK LAMINATED PICTORIAL COVERS. 3RD EDITION. REVISED BY THE EARL OF CRANBROOK. WITH 47 PLATES IN COLOUR AND 4 IN MONOCHROME BY COMMANDER A.M. HUGHES. 1981 THE SABAH SOCIETY, SABAH hardcover
286411953 OLIVER & BOYD LONDON. SECOND EDITION SOME SPOTTING TO THE SPINE HINGE A LITTLE WEAK BUT VERY GOOD. TEAR AT TOP OF SPINE OF DUSTWRAP. 31 COLOUR PLATES BY COMMANDER A.M.HUGHES. 1953 OLIVER & BOYD LONDON unknown
28850HANTS NIMROD PRESS 1986. THIRD EDITION VERY GOOD COPY IN VERY GOOD DUSTWRAP. THIRTY TWO COLOUR PLATES BY COMMANDER A.M. HUGHES. A HEAVY BOOK WHICH WILL INCUR EXTRA POSTAGE. HANTS, NIMROD PRESS, 1986 unknown
16941953 OLIVER & BOYD LONDON. SECOND EDITION VERY GOOD COPY - SMALL TEAR AT TOP OF SPINE. NO DUSTWRAP. 31 COLOUR PLATES BY COMMANDER A.M.HUGHES. 1953 OLIVER & BOYD LONDON unknown
29829LONDON OLIVER & BOYD 1953. SECOND EDITION. VERY GOOD COPY IN COMPLETE DUSTWRAP. 31 COLOUR PLATES BY COMMANDER A.M.HUGHES. A NICE COPY. LONDON, OLIVER & BOYD, 1953 unknown
1946036466London: Collins 1946. Book. Illus. by Edward Bradbury And Ellis dust jacket. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. Second Impression. 8vo. 192 pages. Dust jacket by the Ellis' good some loss to spine and corners price clipped and now presented in an archival sleeve. Red cloth binding very good. Contents clean and tight signed by the author to the title page endpapers unmarked. A very good signed copy. Collins Hardcover
1869036613London: John Van Voorst 1869. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo 19 x 13 cm. pp x 643; some pages remain uncut. Green cloth hardback binding very good and bright gilt bright contents clean and tight no inscriptions attractive bookplate belonging to Robert Washington Oates no foxing. A near fine first edition copy. Robert Washington Oates a relative of Frank and Lawrence Oates was an extremely wealthy man and like Frank Robert Washington Oates was a fan of natural history; so when he heard in 1954 that there were plans to turn Gilbert White's home into a museum but the project was struggling financially; Oates stepped in purchased The Wakes and helped to fund the Museum and donating his natural history library and the Oates family collection. John Van Voorst Hardcover
32235LONDON VAN VOORST 1869. FIRST EDITION ORIGINAL GREEN CLOTH A VERY GOOD FIRM COPY. LONDON, VAN VOORST, 1869 hardcover
32289LONDON PORTER 1879. FIRST EDITION ORIGINAL GREEN CLOTH SLIGHT FOXING TO PRELIMS ONLY THEN VERY CLEAN. A VERY BRIGHT COPY OF A SCARCE ITEM. LONDON, PORTER, 1879 hardcover
1886033934London: R. H. Porter 1886. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo 22 x 14 cm. Pasted onto the front paste-down is an autographed letter from the author dated Jan 19. 1987. My dear Sir Many thanks for Y. polite note. I now know what to do - when y have my book please attach the enclosed to leaf opposite 'errata' it is ready gummed. My publisher played pranks! e.g. inserted 'thank' p. 63 line 2. I am truly Ys. Gregory Smart Lytham Preston Jan 19. 87" The referred to original printed leaf is duly pasted onto the last page and is essentially a reply to an adverse review. 'Birds of the British List To the Editor of the. Dear Sir. - Will you kindly admit the following communication to your next issue. A critique having appeared in a London paper stating that I have in my book upon "Birds on the British List" perverted the opinions of our greater authorities upon Birds. I send you an extract from a letter from Mr. Seebohm than whom there is no greater authority on the subject.' Pp. xxiv 148 4 2. Original green cloth with gilt lettering to the spine very goodwith light wear only. Contents good and tight bookplate of the Daltry Library ncorporating the letters NSFC i.e. North Staffs Field Club and also of The Wells Bladen Gift 1917 to the front free end paper a little foxing to the first and last few pages. A very good copy with author's letter. R. H. Porter Hardcover
19797128Sydney: Methuen 1979. 12mo xx 202 pp full colour illustrations. llustrated card covers with good clear spine titles. Extremely scarce. The most elusive of this collectable series. Includes 150 different species and covers all families of Australian birds. First edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Methuen Paperback
1979034388Sydney: Methuen 1979. 202pp index num col ills. Or pictorial card with colour photo of bird. Spine slightly faded and creased. Some toning to page edges and light edge wear. Observer book #A2. The only book in the Australian Observer's series to be published in soft cover this is also the key to that set. A better than usual example. Includes over 150 species and covers all families. A brief description of each bird together with common Latin and family names details of habitat and information on eating and breeding habits; all entries are illustrated mostly with color photographs. The introduction includes advice on selection of bird-watching equipment. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Very Good. 24mo. Methuen Paperback
1901028939Edinburgh: David Douglas 1901. Book. Illus. by J. W. Frohawk. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp xxiii 150 2-adverts; b/w frontispiece plate by J. W. Frohawk; 2 further b/w plates after photographs folding colour map. Original dark green ribbed cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spinebright and unfaded near fine with minimal wear slight rubbing to head of the spine very small mark to rear board. Contents clean and tight unmarked no inscriptions very slight spotting to page edges. A near fine tight copy. David Douglas Hardcover
38289YORK RUSSELL SLACK 2009. A FINE HARDBACK COPY IN A FINE DUSTWRAP. VOLUME 1: SANDGROUSE TO NEW WORLD ORIOLES. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES BY IAN WALLACE. YORK, RUSSELL SLACK, 2009 hardcover
1971020444Gainesville: University of Florida Press 1971. Illustrated large octavo pp x 378 extremely clean internally green cloth with just the slightest of marks in a slightly worn and chipped dustwrapper. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Slightly worn. University of Florida Press Hardcover
1971002505Gainesville: University of Florida Press 1971. Photos ills. 378pp. Dust jacket chipped soiled small hole but basically all present. Book clean crisp appears unread. The scarce hardcover edition. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. University of Florida Press Hardcover
Bo Ekberg and Lennart NilJacket not in perfect condition but book is in pristine condiion. unknown
1953sts28aLondon and New York: Collins and Van Nostrand. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Some off-setting and light foxing to endpapers. 1953. Limited Edition 2000. Orange hardback half cloth cover on marble papered boards. 500mm x 340mm 20" x 13". viii 120pp. 16 colour and 23 b/w plates including Audubon Gould and de Buffon. Of 2000 copies printed on Gelderland mill paper. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . Collins and Van Nostrand hardcover
1834033090<p>EDINBURGH: W H LIZARS 1834 A good to very good copy of the 1st edition of Volume I of Gallinaceous Birds covering varieties of domestic and wild fowl eg turkeys pheasants in the publisher's brown cloth binding. Copy previously in the ownership of Francis Hemming the entomologist and with his book plate at the front pastedown. Contents with half title; black and white frontispiece portrait of Aristotle; hand coloured vignette title page with a picture of a cockerel; 2 further title pages; contents listing; Memoir of Aristotle; and text with black and white illustrations and 30 hand coloured plates 29 plates are listed in the contents index but there are 2 versions of plate 18. 32pp of advertisements and a 4 page yellow geographical works advert at the rear. The cloth binding has been rebacked relaying the original spine and is sound and tight. There is some slightly paler marking to the boards and the corners have light wear. The original green endpapers are present - the free endpaper is watermarked - and have professional repair at the joints. Contents are clean with toning to the margins including to the plate paper. Pages 169-172 have been roughly opened at the top edge and there is a small ink spot at the top edge of p 205. The plates are generally clean and very well coloured. Tissue guards tend to have some spotting or offsetting - Plate 1 has general toning and a very browned guard and the guard to plate 24 has a small area of paint from the bird on it.</p> W H LIZARS hardcover