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8vo., First Edition, with a fine autotype portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and a large folding map, fore-edges very lightly spotted, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original pictorial cloth blocked in gilt and black, gilt back, uncut, backstrip chipped at head and tail else a very good, clean copy. The first dedicated avifauna of the county, edited by Harting after the author's death. Rodd's splendid collection passed to his nephew F R Rodd of Trebartha Hall, Launceston. Scarce in any condition. Mullens & Swann, p.495; Tate, p.217.
364p., illus. Introduction by Roger Tory Peterson. Photographs by Allen H. Morgan, Edwin W. Teale, & the author. Hardcover Very good condition good
Book is very clean, with sharp corners, very little edgewear to covers, absolutely clean text, solid binding, with no marking of any kind, dog ears, or other harm. Dust jacket shows edge wear, scuffing, no tears. "The revised edition of this book includes all bird species known by the writer to occur, or to have occurred, in Canada and its coastal waters within a limit of 320 kim off shore, up to December 1984, a total of 578 species. At least 426 species are known to breed or to have bred in Canada." With location map for every entry, measurement,s, field marks, habitat, nexting, range, or "status in Canada" if "accidental" or extinct. 428pp. Illus. w. b&w drawings and large, full page color plates, endpaper maps.
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 693 pages. An enormous volume, many photos and color illustrations, many color maps with distribution of birds, tables, charts.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Slight edge wear to dust jacket. 636 pages. An enormous volume; many photos and illustrations. 9 1/8"w x 12 1/8"h.
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 636 pages. An enormous volume (Vol. 2 of a three volume set); many photos and illustrations.
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 636 pages. An enormous volume (Vol. 2 of a three volume set); many photos and illustrations.
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 636 pages. An enormous volume (Vol. 2 of a three volume set); many photos and illustrations.
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 636 pages. An enormous volume (Vol. 2 of a three volume set); many photos and illustrations.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Slight edge wear to dust jacket. 694 pages. An enormous volume; many photos and illustrations. 9 1/8"w x 12 1/8"h.
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 636 pages. An enormous volume; many photos and illustrations.
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 636 pages. An enormous volume; many photos and illustrations.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Slight edge wear to dust jacket. 514 pages. An enormous volume; many photos and illustrations. 9 1/8"w x 12 1/8"h.
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 693 pages. An enormous volume; many photos and illustrations.
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 693 pages. An enormous volume; many photos and illustrations.
47 pages. Covers: blue grouse; spruce grouse; franklin grouse; ruffed grouse; willow ptarmigan; rock ptarmigan; white-tailed ptarmigan; sharp-tailed grouse; sage hen; european grey partridge; chukar partridge; bob-white quail; California quail; mountain quail; ring-necked pheasant; band-tailed pigeon; mourning dove. Top corner clipped from title page. Ink stamp atop page 25 else unmarked. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
54 pages including list of references. One in a series of publications written in non-technical terms for the lay reader. Covers the following birds: black oyster catcher, killdeer and semipalmated blovers, black-bellied and golden plovers, surf bird, black and ruddy turnstones, wilson snipe, hudsonian and long-billed curlews, upland plover, spotted sandpiper, wandering tattler, greater and lesser yellow legs, dowitcher and knot, aleutian sandpiper, white-rumped and sharp-tailed sandpipers, sanderling and pectoral sandpipers, re-backed and Baird sandpipers, "Peeps", buff-breasted sandpiper, marbled and hudsonian godwits, avocet and willet, wilson phalarope, read and northern phalaropes. Book
51 pages with references. Top corner of front cover clipped. Dab of liquid paper on title page which has a thin section as if a sticker took some paper when it was removed. Covers the following birds: Flickers, Pileated Woodpecker, Lewis Woodpecker, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Red-breasted Sapsucker, Williamson Sapsucker, Hairy and Downy woodpeckers, White-headed Woodpecker, American and Arctic Three-toed Woodpeckers, Canada Jay, Stellar Jay, Magpie, Raven, Crows, Clark Nutcracker. Amply illustrated with black and white drawings. Book
66 pages including references. One in a series of booklets. Each bird is illustrated by a drawing and some distinctive characteristics in appearance, behaviour, and song are described. Cover the following chickadees: black-capped, chestnut-backed, boreal, mountain, and common bushtit. Covers the following thrushes: american robin, varied thrush, hermit thrush, swainson thrush, gray-cheeked thrush, veery, mountain bluebird, western bluebird, townsend solitaire. Cover the following birds: Golden-Crowned kinglet, ruby crowned kinglet, water pipit, bohemian waxwing, cedar waxwing, northern shrike and loggerhead shrike. Light to moderate wear with touch of yellowing at edges. Book
84 pages with references. Many black and white illustrations. Covers all swans, geese, dabbling ducks, diving ducks and mergansers known to occur in British Columbia. Designed for school-children, novices, amateur bird-watchers, and hunters. Latin terms have not been used except when necessary. Light wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Book
42 pages including references. One of a series designed for the beginner and amateur bird-watcher. Covers the following: Glaucous gull, glaucous-wined gull, western gull, herring gull (including Thayer gull), california gull, ring-billed gull, mew gull, franklin gull, bonaparte gull, heermann gull, ivory gull, pacific kittiwake, sabine guss, common tern, arctic tern, black tern, parasitic jaeger, pomarine jaeger, long-tailed jaeger, skua. Many black and white illustrations. Light wear and some yellowing to edges. Book
58 pages including references. Deals with four families of aerial feeding birds - goatsuckers (Poor-will and Common Nighthawk), swifts (Black, Vaux's, White-throated), hummingbirds (Black-chinned, Anna's, Rufous, Calliope) and swallows (violet-green, tree, barn, cliff, bank, rough-winged, Purple martin). Includes a variety of drawings. Former owner's name written on front cover. Minute tears to top and bottom of cover fold. Very clean inside. Book
Sm. 8vo., Sole Trade (and Best) Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece and a plate, some minor foxing to endpapers, preliminaries and title only, neat signature on front free endpaper; cloth gilt, gilt back, uncut, a most attractive copy of a scarce Central Wales avifauna. The first publicly available avifauna of the county, being a substantially revised and enlarged edition of the author's first, privately printed, list. NOT RECORDED BY TATE
Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with a frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and a plate, some minor foxing to endpapers preliminaries and title only; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. The first publicly available avifauna of the county, representing a substantially revised and enlarged edition of the author's first, privately printed, list of 1882. Not recorded by Tate.
Recueil de 435 reproductions couleurs de planches d'oiseaux d'Amérique légendées, publiées par le peintre naturaliste, dessinateur et ornithologue états-unien John James AUDUBON (1785-1851) de 1827 à 1838 à Londres; "with a foreword and descriptive captions by William VOGT" (1902-1968); fac-similé de la page de titre du recueil original "published by the autor 1827-[18]30" (sic); "transcript of the legends on the original plates with a note concerning them" in fine; index. Exemplaire collationné, bien complet des 435 planches. Anglais