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14554LONDON CHRISTOPHER HELM 1999. FIRST EDITION FINE COPY IN LAMINATED BOARDS. LONDON, CHRISTOPHER HELM, 1999 hardcover
192p. Illustrated. 8vo. Original printed wraps. NH 2
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, and illustrations and tables in the text; red cloth, gilt back, red endpapers, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
1892018663Washington: Government Printing Office 1892. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by George N. Lawrence to George B. Sennett 1840-1900 expert ornithologist of the Lower Rio Grande Texas. According to the DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY Sennett described ten forms of birds new to science and four birds were named in his honor See DAB Vol. XVI pp. 585-6. For more on Lawrence see the DAB Vol. XI p. 49. Very Good condition. NOT a library discard. Spines ends and corners mildly frayed. Volume IV in the Bibliographies of American Naturalists series. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Lawrence. Bound in the original gilt-stamped black cloth. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by George N. Lawrence. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition. 8vo. xi 124pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Government Printing Office Hardcover
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight traces of storage. 144pp. The author tells the extraordinary story of one of nature's unsung heroes, the feral pigeon, tracing its ancestry back to the wild rock dove - from the despatch of pigeons in 1204BC to announce the coronation of Rameses III to their modern adaptation to man's urban life
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 400 pages.
1931245906St. Louis, 1931. M. zahlr. Abb., Tab. u. graph. Darst. 4 Bl., 153 S., 37 Bl. OU. Leicht beschmutzt. (Trans. of The Acad. of Science of St. Louis 27).
1908179424London, Feathered Life, (1908). 90 S., 1 Bl. OBr. Umschl. leicht berieben.
VG no dj. . no inscription. clean blue boards and crisp gilt titling to spine. 428pp. A super copy. Numerous colour plates in the centre of the book illustrate the text.
1881003646<p>London: Longmans Green and Co. 1881. Good/Pictorial boards. 8vo. 220 x 140mm 548 pages. Chromopxylographs maps woodcuts. Book condition: Good clean gilt decorated and titled boards not faded tight binding not inscribed. Overall pretty good copy for it's age! Comments: A comprehensive study of the Arctic and Antarctic polar regions: animals birds marine life Iceland Westman Islands Norwegian coast Spitzbergen Bear Island Jan Meyen Novaya Zemlya The Lapps Siberia Kamtschatka Alaska Hudson's Bay Indian tribes Antarctica Patagonia and much more. Some super illustrations!. Hard Cover. Good/Pictorial Board. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.</p> Longmans, Green and Co. hardcover
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. Price-clipped dust jacket. 493 pages. Many b&w illustrations.
Volumes 1 & 2. Both have tape marks and name to the end papers from previous owner's old cellophane wrappers. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spines. Two very clean very tight copies with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Only Vol 1 has a dust jacket. This has similarly tape marked dust flaps, Total of 509pp. The plays are The Acharnians, The Knights, The Birds, The Peace, The Frogs, The Trial of Euripides, The Clouds and The Wasps. Intro by John P Maine (vol 1) and John Hookham Frere (vol 2).
32550LONDON T. AND A.D. POYSER 1992. 1ST EDITION. NEAR FINE COPY IN NEAR FINE DUSTWRAP. ILUSTRATED BY TOMAS PART. LONDON, T. AND A.D. POYSER, 1992 unknown
582p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition fair
581p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition chipped
Small folio in full red leather, with ornamental stamping & tooling in gilt; 347 pages plates (some color), marbled enepapers; maps 29 cm; bibliographical references (pages 335-339) One of the most handsome bindings we have seen, with exquisite tooling & gilt work. Rare thus. Please refer to photos. Bookseller slip Asprey & Garrard of London laid in. // Birds. Hunting. Pheasants. Faisans. Pheasants. Aves (Sistematica) Phasianidae. Custom leather bindings. Fine bindings. **A large, heavy book; weighs just over 4 lbs; does not fin in a priroity flat rate envelope. Extra shipping charges may apply for international & expedited orders. Please inquire.**
2320SURREY SPUR PUBLICATIONS 1977. 2ND EDITION. QUARTO VERY GOOD COPY IN DUSTWRAP. ILLUSTRATED WITH 32 PLATES BY J.C. HARRISON AND 21 MAPS & DIAGRAMS TOGETHER WITH COLOURED FRONTISPIECE BY R. DAVID DIGBY. SURREY, SPUR PUBLICATIONS, 1977 unknown
195030439Boston: Little Brown & Co 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. Hardbound octavo in dustwrapper. 276 pp. The story of a fight for survival of a game bird a hybrid pheasant. A handsome near fine copy in very good price-intact dustwrapper. Little, Brown & Co hardcover books
374961990 ACADEMIC PRESS LONDON. 1ST EDITION. NEAR FINE HARDBACK COPY. VERY WELL ILLUSTRATED IN BLACK AND WHITE. 1990 ACADEMIC PRESS, LONDON hardcover
1990014599Academic Press 1990. Nice copy. Hardcover. Very Good. Academic Press Hardcover
36906ORNIS 1969. 12 LONG-PLAYING RECORDS EACH IN A SLEEVE THE WHOLE BOXED. VERY GOOD. A SCARCE ITEM. ORNIS, 1969 unknown
Folio in white DJ; 79 p, color and b&w illus, map ; 31 cm. Sketches, accompanied by relevant text from Tunnicliffe's book Shorelands summer diary, selected and introduced by Robert Gillmor, with an essay on the birds by Derek Ratcliffe. || Falcons -- Wales, England.
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, light sunning, no tears. Chapters include The first encounter, The tundra for a home, Peregrine days and nights, Uneasy neighbors Eyasses. With b&w photos, map.
1967j6768cLondon: Collins. VG : in very good condition with dust jacket. Jacket with two inch tear at lower edge of front fold. Minor impact at top edge of fep of a paper clip. 1967. First Edition. Black hardback cloth cover. 210mm x 150mm 8" x 6". 191pp. . Collins hardcover
18969POYSER 1993. SECOND EDITION FINE COPY IN FINE DUSTWRAPPER. THIS IS A DETAILED DEFINITIVE STUDY BY AN INTERNATIONALLY ACKNOWLEDGED AUTHORITY IT IS ALSO A WELL COMPOSED WORK WITH AN EASY FLOW THAT CONCEALS ITS AUTHOR`S SKILLED PRESENTATION. DONALD WALTON HAS CONTRIBUTED THREE COLOUR PLATES AND MANY LINE ILLUSTRATIONS AND THERE ARE MAPS DIGRAMS AND MORE THAN SIXTY PHOTOGRAPHS. POYSER, 1993 unknown
