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World of Birds: The Illustrated Encyclopedia Volume 2

46 pages, illustrated. eng

World Bird Species Checklist: With Alternative English and Scientific Names

Contains a full checklist of world species -- around 18,000 alternative scientific and over 27,000 alternative English names wheich are used in modern fieldguides and literature to describe 9941 bird species. Changes in relationships between species in the last 30 years are shown and a status column is used to indicate general conservation state. 671 pages. A major reference tool.

Woodpeckers: A Guide to the Woodpeckers of the World

A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Light wear to dust jacket. 406 pages.

WOLFGAND DE GRAHL. PAPAGAYOS. ESTUMBRES, ESPECIES, CRIA.

WISCONSIN ARBOR AND BIRD DAY ANNUAL, 1909. With "Birds of Wisconsin" by Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Mitchell.

120p. Illustrated with full color page plates. 4to. Original printed wraps. Slight loss on spine. Scarce. NH 2

Wing to Wing. Bird-Watching Adventures at Home and Abroad with the R.A.F.

With 30 original photographs by the author and 26 line drawings by Roland Green. Faded blue cloth covers and spine, with marks on the back, and light wear to corners.

Willie was differenct : The Tale of an Ugly Thrushling

42p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good Card signed by Norman Rockwell pasted to front flyleaf

Wildlife After Gravel: Twenty Years of Practical Research by the Game Conservancy and ARC

No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 135pp. This book is a record of twenty years of research into land reclamation funded by ARC, a company who carry out surface mineral extraction. It shows what can be done by the evidence of the ex-company restored gravel pit near Great Linford in Buckinghamshire which became a valuable and diverse wetland conservation site. Very well illustrated.

Wildfowl. An Identification Guide to the Ducks, Geese and Swans of the World

Christopher Helm, 1988. In-8 reliure toile éditeur sous jaquette illustrée. 298 pages. Planches en noir et en couleurs, cartes. Petit scotch sur le haut de la jaquette sinon Bon état

Wildfowl of the British Isles.

8vo., First Edition, with 15 coloured plates by Scott; original red pictorial cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter frayed and creased at edges. A very good copy of Scott's standard reference. Tate, p.198.

Wildfowl of Europe. Foreword by Sir Peter Scott. Colour Plates by Hilary Burn. [Line Drawings by Joe Blossom. Maps by Brian Crosby.] NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, numerous fine full-page coloured illustrations, and many smaller line illustrations in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.

Wildfowl 35

No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 184pp. Published annually, this series of worldwide reports is a service to the conservation of and research on the birds of the world's wetlands

Wild Wings over the Marshes

93p. Hardcover Very good condition good

Wild Geese. Illustrations by Carol Ogilvie. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, coloured plates, illustrations and maps in the text and pictorial endpapers; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing . . . adapted by Asa Don Dickinson

270 p., 48 col. illus. Hardcover Very good condition, cover lettering faded

Wild Chorus. Written and illustrated by Peter Scott. [Fifth Impression]. CLEAN COPY

Roy., 8vo., Fifth Impression, with coloured frontispiece, title-vignette, 19 fine coloured plates and numerous plates in monochrome; green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, upper board unevenly sunned, backstrip sunned (but all gilt wholly legible), a very good, clean copy. First published in a limited edition in 1938.

Wild Chorus. LIMITED SIGNED EDITION

4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 23 coloured plates, 64 plates in monochrome and several illustrations in the text, fore-edges lightly spotted; original cloth, gilt back, covers very lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy in lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 1250 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Scarce in this condition.

Wild Chorus. FIRST TRADE EDITION IN DUSTWRAPPER

4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 23 coloured plates, 64 plates in monochrome and several illustrations in the text, fore-edges lightly spotted; original cloth, gilt back, covers very lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy in lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. First Trade Edition, and scarce in this condition

Wild Birds of Canada

Ex-library copy with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind . 150 pages, loaded with color photos.

Wild Birds and the Land : Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Bulletin No. 140

No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 75pp. A review of birds following their recovery from the harsh winter of 1946-47. Illustrated.

White of Selborne. [Foreword by June Chatfield].

8vo., with a portrait frontispiece and plates; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter sunned at backstrip. Much-needed re-issue, with foreword by the curator of the Gilbert White museum, of a classic biography first published in 1950

While Flocks Last: An Armchair Birdwatcher Goes in Search of Britain's Most Endangered Species

Book is in excellent condition, as new in every respect. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind.

Where to Find Birds in Australia

Nice, clean copy, 539 pages, with maps, b&w and color photos, nblemished text, book shows light use.

Where Have All the Birds Gone? Essays on the Biology and Conservation of Birds That Migrate to the American Tropics

No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very faint indenting to front and no bumping to corners. 207pp. A study of what is happening with our environment from the aspect of birds and their biology and what we can do about it.