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2 vols., 4to., First Edition thus, with titles in green, orange and black, many hundreds of coloured and monochrome illustrations and maps, and coloured endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper, the whole housed publisher's illustrated board slip-case. Based on the nine-volume Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. The set comprises: Vol. I: Non-Passerines; Vol. II: Passerines. Nice copy of a standard reference.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, numerous coloured and monochrome plates by EME Glenister, and photographs by the author, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. 'A useful guide in a convenient form to the birds of a large region' (Tate p.69). SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Tate, p.202.
Oxford Univesity press, 1983. In-8 broché de 291 pages. Planches en noir et en couleurs, cartes. Bon état
8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations, maps and diagrams in the text; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Issued in the publisher's 'County Avifauna' series
Sm. 4to., Third Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 176 coloured illustrations of birds and eggs by Thorburn, 65 monochrome photographs by Kearton and pictorial endpapers, contemporary inscription on front free endpaper verso; original series binding of publisher's maroon leather-effect cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt and black, gilt back, radial corners, red sprinkled edges, a very good, bright, clean, firm copy.
New York 1932/1939/1953/1954, 4 forts volumes grands In-8 brochés. Tome I : x + 756 pages. frontispice, 10 planches en hors texte, 208 illustrations et carte dépliante du CONGO BELGE en fin de volume ---Tome II : vii + 632 pages.frontispice en couleur, 21 planches en hors texte dont 2 en couleurs, 38 illustrations ---Tome III : 821 pages. 14 planches en hors texte et 36 figures. ---Tome IV : ix + 846 pages. 27 planches en hors texte et 46 figures.Index en fin de chaque volume. Bel ensemble, bien complet et en bon état. Rare complet. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with fine chromo-lithographed frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 5 fine chromo-lihtographed plates (all original tissue guards present) and folding map coloured in outline; original blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, chocolate endpapers, uncut, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, crisp copy. With List of Subscribers and 8pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. THE FIRST COMPLETE SUSSEX AVIFAUNA. Very scarce in this condition. Freeman 408; Tate, p.207.
Excellent condition throughout: straight spine, sharp corners to the covers, text/illustrations unmarked in any way, bright, clean perfect dust jackets. Large 8vo. Vol. 1, The Oscine Passerines, jays & swallows, wrens, thrushes & allies, vireos and wood-warblers, tanagers, icterids and finches ovenbirds and woodcreepers, antbirds, gnateaters, tapaculos, tyrant flycatchers, manakins & cotingas. 1997, ISBN 0292707568, 516 pp. including index, color illustrations, maps & line drawings. Vol. 2 The Subsocine Passerines, ovenbirds and woodcreepers, antbirds, gnateaters, tapaculos, tyrant flycatchers, manakins & cotingas, illustrated as the former volume. ISBN 0292770634, this is the first edition, published in 1994; 814 pp.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, All Published, with a double-page coloured map; strongly and attractively bound in dark green buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy. The sole text volume of a stupendous work truncated by the outbreak of WWI and the ensuing death of Brabourne. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
Roy. 8vo., Second Edition, with 12 fine engraved plates in monochrome by Keulemans, one or two short marginal tears in blank margins of a few leaves; attractively bound in navy blue cloth, navy blue calf back lettered and ruled in gilt, uncut AND PARTIALLY UNOPENED, beige endpapers (original yellow free endpapers preserved), a very good, bright, clean copy. Wanting (blank) pages 856-866 as usual. The first edition of Layard's standard monograph was first published in Cape Town in 1867. This second and best edition was prepared by Sharpe and dedicated by him to Layard. The superb plates by Keulemans (sometimes coloured by hand; uncoloured in the present copy) appear here for the first time. A lovely copy of a scarce and standard reference. Mendelssohn I, p.872; Tate p.203.
8vo., xxxiv,463pp., 46 coloured plates, some foxing. Good+, cloth marked and spine sunned with rubbing and some loss to ends. extensive pencil entries to feps about birds and an inscription - but nothing to text itself.
8vo., First Edition, with plates, faint tape marks on free endpapers; cloth, a very good copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. With a bookplate. The first comprehensive county avifauna since Smith in 1869. Tate praises it as ' a full and detailed systematic list'.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured plates and endpaper maps, small initial on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. With personal bookplate on half-title verso.
Small quarto in dark green clot -backed, gilt-titled boards; 111 pages : frontispiece, 5 plates ; 24 cm; bibliographical references (pages 91-101). Supplement has same dimensions in brown printed wraps; 24p. Presumably quite scarce thus, in such fine condion. / Birds -- Rhode Island. U.S.A. Ornithology, Natural History New England.
793 p. Text illustrations. Eges uncut. 8vo. Original printed wraps. Bookplate of Samuel Hull Dyke. First Edition. Part XI. A Descriptive catalog of birds, including: The American Vulture; Hawks; Eagles; Kites; Harriers; Old World Vultures; Ospreys; Falcons; and Caracaras. Full descriptions and synonymics. This carries on a series started by Robert Ridgway covering all the birds of North America. NH9
Revised and enlarged posthumous edition. 623 pages. Index. Twenty-eight figures. Three colour plates. Contents include: Galli; Turnices; Limicolae; Alectorides; The Birds of the Island of Bonin and Micronesia; Order Psittaci. "(The author's) very important work is unusually complete and thorough. I feel grateful that it has been made available to the world." - Jean Delacour. Book clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear - possibly unread. Plain craft dust jacket bears light wear and several short openings. Average soiling and wear to slipcase. An excellent copy. Please note: This book weighs over 5lb/2kg. Extra shipping may be required. Book
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and plates; terracotta pictorial cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in white and black, backstrip lettered in black, uncut, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, firm, clean copy. With 16pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Charming account of bird life and behaviour at the turn of the nineteenth century in the parish of Hainford, Norfolk. VERY SCARCE.
pp. 598 + Color plates. Tall 8vo. Nice faux leather cloth binding. A very tight and clean copy. A really excellent and still useful study. W147
Large light blue octavo; 598 p, [8] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm. Birds -- Louisiana.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and 2 full-page maps in the text; original dark green ribbed cloth, gilt back, green top, uncut, a near fine copy. Tate, p.215.
2 vols., roy. 4to., First Edition, First Issue, with 2 coloured frontispieces, 36 coloured plates, 76 monochrome plates on 42, a full-page map in the text, and a double-page map in red and blue with a full-page graph, some light marginal spotting to first leaves on each volume, fore-edges mildly spotted; original dark blue buckram, gilt back, blue tops, a very good, clean set in dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned and spotted at fold-ins. One of the finest of all modern county avifaunas, the set comprises vol I: Black-Throated Diver to Puffin; vol. II: Pallas's Sand-Grouse to Snow-Finch. The frontispieces and coloured plates are from paintings by the author. 'In 1953 Dr. James Harrison published 'The Birds of Kent', a comprehensive historical work in two volumes which goes into great detail on the occurrence of sub-species as well as full species. This book is illustrated with many photographs mostly of mounted specimens and coloured paintings by the author'. (Tate). This is the first issue binding of dark blue buckram (rather than the later cloth). The dustwrappers are cream printed in red and black. Tate (1985), p.94.
New English Paperback. Pbo. Mint. 4to. (32 x 24 cm). 210 p. In Turkish and English. B/w photos. The birds of Istanbul.= Istanbul'un kuslari. Translator: Amy Spangler; Edited by Ali Berktay. PHOTOGRAPHY TUrkish art of photography Photographic art Photographer Istanbul Bird.
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, and numerous illustrations and maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published for the Dorset Bird Club.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper