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1898028936Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co. 1898. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp. xiv 256 16 pages of adverts at year; b/w portrait frontispiece of the author; 9 further b/w plates; folding map at end; in-text vingette. Original green buckram cloth binding with gilt lettering good and strong but somewhat worn and rubbed; cloth marked and tanned. Contents good and tight a little spotting and foxing a few pages marked; private bookplate to the front paste-down. A good copy of the first edition. "Journey of the British explorer & ornithologist in 1894 from Kolguev Island up the Pechora River & then west to the White Sea". Archibald Constable & Co. Hardcover
1858033219London: Lovell Reeve 1858 A very good copy of the 1st edition in the original decorative cloth binding with 20 hand coloured plates. Part of Lovell Reeve's Popular Natural History series where a number of authors were chosen to introduce their subjects to young people in a way that would give a good foundation while inspiring them to study further. This copy is in the original binding which is very bright and clean. The gilt decoration on the front board is slightly dulled. Spine ends have light pulling and there is light wear to corners. Contents complete with hand coloured frontispiece and 19 further plates. 1 page ad for the Literary Gazette at the rear. There is an ink inscription at the front free endpaper. Top and side page edges rough with the occasional very small edge tear. Contents are clean with light spotting which occasionally affects plates. Light marking to endpapers. Lovell Reeve hardcover
23877CHARLES TUTTLE 1971. FIRST EDITION QUARTO VERY GOOD IN A WORN AND TORN DUSTWRAPPER. WITH 25 SUPERB FULL-COLOUR PLATES BY HARVEY. CHARLES TUTTLE, 1971 unknown
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
1979027636London: The Publishing Partnership 1979. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Limted Facscimile Edition. Elephant Folio. A finely produced book. Numbered Limited Edition. Number 176 of an edition limited to 250 copies. Half brown morocco over marbled boards; matching bound folio prospectus all housed within original brown morocco-backed cloth solander box. An elephant folio facsimile of the original work published c. 1835. 5 finely printed colour illustrations: - Common Fowl Raven Wood Pigeon Winchat and Blue Titmouse. Books and solander in fine condition. A superbly produced work using finest handmade materials. 3920g. The Publishing Partnership, Hardcover
1502BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY 1961. FIRST EDITION. VERY GOOD IN DUSTWRAP. ALSO COVERS BIRDS OF NEPAL SKKIM BHUTAN AND CEYLON. A LETTER FROM THE AUTHOR IS PASTED ON TO THE FEP. BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY 1961 unknown
34182BEIJING SCIENCE PRESS 1987. FIRST EDITION QUARTO VERY GOOD IN DUSTWRAPPER. NAME TO FEP. 1222 PAGES. BEIJING, SCIENCE PRESS, 1987 unknown
1891023337Edinburgh: David Douglas 1891. Illustrated a double-page coloured map large octavo pp xxiv 314 top edge gilt the fore-edge lightly untrimmed very clean internally a decorated title page a 16-page publisher's catalogue at the rear original green cloth slightly faded a small private shelf number on the spine the spine frayed at the base lacking a small piece at the top a small split to the top of the upper spine. From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter with his stamp on the half-title. First Edition. Cloth. Good. David Douglas Hardcover
1895020567Edinburgh: David Douglas 1895. Two volumes. Illustrated large ocyavo pp xxii ii 306; 309 publisher's catalogue 18 pages a folding map at the rear in good condition slight age-toning to the page margins slight adhesion damage to the front endpapers of the second volume otherwise very good internally green cloth very slightly worn the spines very slightly faded the upper cover of volume two is rather marked and blotched. The Oates Library copy with the bookplate of Robert Washington Oates and his blind-stamp on the front endpapers also the blind-stamp of Durrant House Bournemouth and the small Bibliotheca Oatesiana stamp on the half titles and the last page. The first volume also has the earlier armorial bookplte of R.D. Jackson. First Edition. Cloth. Good. David Douglas Hardcover
1935011966Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd 1935. Ex-Library. VG. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Deaccessioned from non-circulating museum library nominally marked/stamped clear-coated spine panel lightly age-toned with hand-written call number on lower portion. Dark green cloth lettered in gilt with deckled edges top edge in gilt. lv397 pp. illus. with 18 b&w plates foldout color map at rear. Only slight shelf wear. Complimentary publisher's slip laid in. Oliver and Boyd 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
1916070649New York: Gibbs and Van Vleck 1916. Book. Illus. by Robert Bruce Horsfall. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dark green cloth lettered in gold foil. Minor rubbing to corners and spine extremities. Gift inscription inked and small book plate mounted on front flyleaf. 191 pp. illus. w/ 56 color plates. Gibbs and Van Vleck Hardcover
19025377New York:: Forest Fish and Game Commision c. 1902. First printing. Fine condition. . A Fine original chromolithograph printed on heavy coated stock. Quarto 9 x 12.5 Inches. Published as part of the unbound portfolio of prints. This is one of the finest of the late 19th to early 20th century American chromolithographs: a color-printed lithograph for which a separate stone was used for the application of each color thus requiring meticulous registration to recreate the subtle tones of blended color . Archivally double matted in Forest Green rag board sized to 14 x 18 inches suitable for framing. Forest, Fish and Game Commision, unknown
3121<p>4to. Pp. 194. Original cloth leather label on spine gilt titles on spine and top board with a black & white photograph pasted-on. The cloth is showing signs of use and shelfwear. There is some occasional faint spotting to the text pages. With 21 mounted photographs on heavy tinted paper and 65 illustrations in the text all by the author. Nicholl was at the Royal Naval College Osborne House and wrote the work to interest Osborne cadets in the bird life around the Isle of Wight.</p> Newport, 1916 hardcover
1976r4134Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. VG : in very good condition with clipped dust jacket. Wrapper rubbed and edge chipped. Author's signature on rear of frontis plate. Some foxing. 1976. Second Edition. Brown/gilt hardback cloth cover. 260mm x 190mm 10" x 7". 445pp. Colour and b/w plates. Signed by author. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . University of Alabama Press hardcover
2008055028Melbourne: CSIRO 2008. HEAVY. 240pp index further reading glossary 400 col photographs maps pictorial endpapers. Blue cloth in jacket. As new. Featuring over 400 photographs in a breathtaking celebration of the albatross as well as a series of essays by leading experts and a factual natural history section with detailed information on each species including range maps population estimates behavior and distribution. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Folio. CSIRO Hardcover
44829LONDON CHRISTOPHER HELM 2008. FIRST EDITION. A FINE COPY IN A FINE DUSTWRAP. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED. SCARCE. LONDON, CHRISTOPHER HELM, 2008 unknown
1995005316Edmonton AB: Provincial Museum of Alberta 1995. Color photos illustrations maps bibliography index 349 pages. Inscription on front blank flyleaf otherwise like new. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Provincial Museum of Alberta Hardcover
2009__1846611369Jordan Publishing Ltd 2009. Paperback. New. 1467 pages. 9.75x6.25x2.50 inches. Jordan Publishing Ltd paperback
2008cdb11New York: Rizzoli International Publications Inc. VG : in very good condition with dust jacket and illustrated slipcase. 2008. First edition thus. Green hardback cloth cover. 390mm x 310mm 15" x 12". 670pp. 1008 colour plates. Heavy book extra shipping needed for overseas. . Rizzoli International Publications Inc hardcover
41529NEW YORK RIZZOLI 2008. BUFFON'S ILLUSTRATED NATURAL HISTORY GENERAL AND PARTICULAR OF BIRDS. ILLUSTRATED BY FRANCOIS-NICOLAS MARTINET. FOREWORD BY DAVID SIBLEY. FOLIO IN STURDY SLIPCASE. 670 PAGES. A MAGNIFICENT PRODUCTION. A NEAR FINE COPY. THE SLIPCASE IS DAMAGED AT THE BASE. THE BOOK WEIGHS 8.4 Kg SO POSTAGE AT COST. VERY SCARCE. NEW YORK, RIZZOLI, 2008 unknown
33467NEW YORK RIZZOLI 2008. BUFFON'S ILLUSTRATED NATURAL HISTORY GENERAL AND PARTICULAR OF BIRDS. ILLUSTRATED BY FRANCOIS-NICOLAS MARTINET. FOREWORD BY DAVID SIBLEY. FOLIO IN STURDY SLIPCASE. 670 PAGES. A MAGNIFICENT PRODUCTION. A VERY FINE COPY CLEARLY UNUSED WITH BOOKPLATE OF PREVIOUS OWNER. THE BOOK WEIGHS 8.4 Kg SO POSTAGE AT COST. VERY SCARCE. NEW YORK, RIZZOLI, 2008 unknown
83331882. Alnwick: Printed by C. E. Moore. 12mo 11 pp. Stitched and unbound. First and last leaves loose otherwise in fair condition on lightly-aged paper with grubby title. The section of 'Eggs of the Farne Islands' consists of fifteen entries on pp.8-9 from '1. Eider or St. Cuthbert's Duck Somateria mollissima' to '15. Rock Pipit Anthus aquaticus Case of Puffins and Young.' This section is followed by a curious 'Miscellaneous Collection' including 'Ivy Leaves from Thorwaldsen's Grave Copenhagen' 'Cegars from Coomassie Ashantee 1874' and ' "A Duel" made from the claws etc. of Crayfish Astacus fluviatilus at Strasbourg 26th July 1879 and given to exhibitor'. Item 30 is a ' "Knuckle Duster" ' first recorded use of the term. Final section includes oil paintings by T. H. Gibb Percy Forster and F. Melville. The only copy on COPAC at Newcastle. See Image. 1882. Alnwick: Printed by C. E. Moore. unknown
2005051018Mansfield UK: DONA Publishing house/Insignis Publications. 2005. 324pp references col ills maps. Pictorial cloth no jacket issued. As new. All aspects of the 28 species of Amazon parrots with a chapter on extinct species. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/None as Issued. 8vo. DONA Publishing house/Insignis Publications. Hardcover
102425920X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover