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1838034906Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars 1838. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo. Pp.x 256; engraved frontispiece plate of Haller; engraved title page with a hand-coloured vignette; 33 engraved plates of which 32 are hand-coloured with tissue guards; letterpress title and half-title pages. Original cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine some fading top and bottom of spine a little creased binding firm. Contents good and tight original green endpapers bookplate belonging to John L Sinclair and further to Leonard Cowcill the first few pages have some toning but the main body is clean plates with tissue guards present tissue guards have some offsetting. A very good complete copy. W. H. Lizars Hardcover
1838033322<p>EDINBURGH: W H LIZARS 1838 A good to very good copy of the 1st edition in the original publisher's cloth binding with 31 hand coloured plates and a hand coloured vignette title page. The binding is clean and sound with light fading to the spine and the board edges. The spine ends have some chipping and there is a small cloth split developing at the top end of the front spine joint. The corners are turned inwards. The original green endpapers are present and are bright and unmarked. Contents: volume listing; half title; black and white frontispiece portrait of Haller; hand coloured vignette title page with picture of Green Tody; 2 further title pages; advert; contents listing; Memoir of Baron Haller; text; and 31 hand coloured plates bound at the rear. This is an unusual copy in that all of the text remains unopened - in the state in which it came from the publishers. The text paper looks quite brown toned. The plates at the rear are all very clean. There is offsetting to the tissue guards. The tissue guard to the frontispiece has been torn out.</p> W H LIZARS hardcover
1892011964Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution/GPO 1892. Ex-Library. VG. Buckram. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Deaccessioned from non-circulating museum library nominally marked/stamped little actual wear clear-coated spine panel lightly age-toned with hand-written call number on lower portion. Bound in orange buckram not retaining original wraps. ii253-383 pp. illus. w/ 46 b&w plates additional figures in text. Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum. From the Report of the National Museum for 1890 to which this pagination refers. A very durable functional copy. Smithsonian Institution/GPO Hardcover
1893VV008901893 210 p., 26 col. lithographed plates, original cloth. A few plates with some slight foxing, library stamp on title-page. Plates by J.L. and R. Ridgway. U.S. Department of Agriculture. Division of Ornithology and Mammalogy. Bulletin No. 3.
1893033264<p>Washington: U S Department of Agriculture 1893 A good copy of the 1st edition in the original cloth binding with 26 coloured plates. The binding is sound and bright with gilt titles to spine and textured cloth boards. There is some pulling to spine ends and light wear to corners. The back board has 4 tiny spot marks and a slightly paler area at the top close to the spine. The contents are complete with 26 coloured plates as per the plate listing which places plate 26 before plates 24 and 25. The text paper and endpapers are lightly toned and there is some spotting to the foredge which is occasionally visible internally at the page edge - including plate pages. The plates are tissue-guarded - the guard to plate 9 has small loss from a side edge. There is small stain at the bottom gutter edge which is visible at the rear endpapers and on plates 1 24 and 25. This does not affect the images. A sliver of text surface from p 96 has attached itself to the back of plate 14 - this affects some words but it is possible to work out what they are from what remains. Please enquire if you would like to see additional images.</p> U S Department of Agriculture hardcover
1885038904Edinburgh: Thomas C. Jack 1885. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Royal 8vo 23 x 15 cm. Pp. x 58; folding colour map to the rear 9 plates complete as called for including two coloured plates of the Auk egg. Original cloth binding worn but conservatively repaired please see images. Contents clean and tight spotting to the first and last few pages some spotting internally but mainly confined to the margins bookplate belonging to Eric Hosking tipped onto the front pastedown no inscriptions. A good copy with an interesting provenance. Eric Hosking OBE Hon FRPS FBIPP 1909-1991 was widely acknowledged as one of the world's most eminent natural history photographers "Perhaps the most famous bird photographer ever to have lived" Gemma Padley. He was pioneering and developed new techniques especially the use of flash photography and automatic shutter release technology which enabled him to photograph birds at night and freeze birds in flight for the first time. Famously when just 28 he lost an eye to a tawny owl while climbing up to a hide in rural Wales the event which inspired the ingenious title of his autobiography "An Eye for a Bird" 1970. Over his exceptionally long career he photographed over 1800 species and his pictures have appeared in some 1000 books including the popular New Naturalist series of which he was photographic editor. Hosking was not only a photographer of birds but also a highly knowledgeable ornithologist. Thomas C. Jack Hardcover
1835h0116caLondon: Whittaker & Co. G : in Good condition. Cover rubbed with corner wear. Spine rubbed with wear ar joints. Title page stained. 1835. Second Edition. Black hardback half-leather cover. 190mm x 120mm 7" x 5". 391pp ads. B/w in-text illustrations plus colour frontispiece title-page vignette and 8 pages of illustrations all hand coloured. . Whittaker & Co hardcover
1877023076London: John Murray 1877. Second edition twelfh thousand revised and corrected. Small thick octavo pp xvi 693 publisher's catalogue dated May 1878 various text illustrations becoming a little weak internally this means that several signatures are becoming slightly proud at the fore-edge the title page and the subsequent thirty pages are lightly bruised at the upper corner otherwise very good internally with the book label of Jas. Lodge Jnr. Green cloth a little rubbed and very slightly marked the spine just slightly pulled at head and tail. Freeman 948 - "The final definitive text". Second edition. Cloth. Good. John Murray Hardcover
1895166794Washington, 1895. (S.-A.a.: Yearbook of the U.S. Dep. of Agric. 1894). S. 233-248. OBr. Umschl. angeschmutzt.
1854240007Rufus Merrill 1854. 24 pp. Illustrated Wrap. Chapbook with black and white in-text imagery. Cover title Museum of Natural History: History of Birds. Hand sewing repair. Includes the partridge an the belted king-fisher. Measures 3 7/8" x 6". <br/><br/> Rufus Merrill unknown books
1890179055Edinburgh, Douglas, 1890. M. zahlr. Ill. XV, 276 S., 2 Bl. OLwd. m. goldgepr. Rtit. Unbeschnitten.
1890VV112981890 viii, 302, [5] p., 162 figs (woodcuts), 2 plans, frontispiece, contemporary publisher's cloth (outer edges spine somewhat worn). With handwritten dedication (from Rev. Young to Lizzie) on blank end-paper.
1900VV305591900 Novitates Zoologicae, 7(1), 1900 : in-4°, broché extrait, pp. 12-24,
1889021772Oxford at The Clarendon Press 1889. With a charming hand-coloured frontispiece of an Alpine Chough by Seth Lister Mosley octavo pp viii 217 publisher's catalogue 16 pages a folding map at the rear in very good condition very clean internally blue cloth the slightest of bruising to the corners otherwise in extremely bright condition; apart from a slight wrinkling at the head of the frontispiece and slight blotching to the endpapers it would be difficult to find a better copy. From the library of Robert Washington Oates with his bookplate. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Oxford at The Clarendon Press Hardcover
1889021775Oxford at The Clarendon Press 1889. With a charming hand-coloured frontispiece of an Alpine Chough by Seth Lister Mosley octavo pp viii 217 a folding map at the rear with one neat repair at a fold otherwise in very good condition slightly age-toned internally blue cloth a little dull marked and rubbed the spinefrayed at head and tail. From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter with his stamp on the front endpaper. . First Edition. Cloth. Good. Oxford at The Clarendon Press Hardcover
1870004071Saint Petersburg: S. E. Cassino 1870. 2 volumes bound in 3/4 green leather marbled endpapers TEG raised bands gilt lettering. 100 hand-colored plates with tissue guards 1005pp. Small quarter-moon water stain on edge of preliminary pages in vol.1. Wear on the corners but not much on spine ends. No fraying. Evidence of sticker removal on spines but no ex-lib markings inside. Scan available on request. Three-Quarter Leather. 4to. S. E. Cassino Hardcover
1890033859Chelmsford: Edmund Durrant et al 1890. Book. Illus. by Whymper Charles. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Inscribed by the author to a slip tipped on to the front free end paper "A. M. McAldowie Esq.re M.D. KC with the Author's compts July 1984" Very large bookplate stamped Ex. Libris A. M. McAldowie to the front paste-down. Alexander Morison McAldowie - Scottish physician folklore expert and ornithologist author of The Birds of Staffordshire 1893 engraved bookplate of F. C. S. N. The Daltry Library to the verso of the front free end-paper; pp. viii 302 6 - adverts; lithographic frontispiece plate with original tissue guard after Charles Whymper 2 b/w plates of plans of decoys with hand colouring in outline further full-page engravings of decoys; each bird species illustrated with a woodcut after those in Yarrell a few specially drawn by G. E. Lodge and several from other sources; list of subscribers. Original red cloth hardback binding with black lettering very good with a little light wear spine a little faded. Contents clean and tight no inscriptions. A very good copy. Much more than the usual avifauna with an excellent collection of biographies of the principal Essex ornithologists a chapter on wild-fowl decoys and wild-fowling in Essex plus chapter on Hawks and Hawking in Essex. Essex Field Club Special Memoirs - vol. II. Edmund Durrant et al Hardcover
1890013092Chelmsford Buckhurst Hill and London: Edmund Durrant & Co; The Essex Field Club & Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co. 1890. Illustrated octavo pp viii 302 one gathering slightly sprung cloth faded and slightly marked. From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter with his stamp on the front endpaper. First Edition. Cloth. Good. Edmund Durrant & Co; The Essex Field Club, & Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co. Hardcover
1847002426London: John van Voorst 1847. Errata slip tipped-in 447pp. Very small white library number on spine spine ends worn corners bumped and worn. Flyleaf has a rubber stamp bookplate and elegant owner's inscription from 1860. 1 1/2" tear along gutter at top of spine with no loss. Neat library pocket in back both hinges reinforced. First Edition. Hard Cover. John van Voorst Hardcover
1806037175London & Edinburgh: Longman Hurst Rees and Orme and William Blackwood 1806. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo. Pp. 248. Bound in later pebbled plum cloth with title label to spine taken from original binding very good. Contents good no inscriptions a little foxing along the gutter edge of the title page top edge dust marked. A very good copy. Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme and William Blackwood Hardcover
1806016790Edinburgh: James Ballantyne & Co. 1806. Small octavo pp 7 5 248 top edge gilt other edges untrimmed some pages slightly dusty internally but generally in very good condition bound in a late nineteenth century quarter morocco and pebbled cloth gilt decorated spine with raised bands. An excellent copy. The Oates-Selborne copy with the bookplate of Robert Washington Oates; the library was later gifted to the Gilbert White Museum in 1955. Rev. James Grahame 1765 - 1811 was a Scottish poet whose poems are full of quiet observation of country sights expressed in graceful verse. The Birds of Scotland exemplifys both ornithological knowledge and descriptive ingenuity and ease. First Edition. Quarter leather. Very Good. James Ballantyne & Co. Hardcover
1871022964Glasgow: Thomas Murray & Son 1871. Illustrated with 15 tinted lithographs all of which are rather age-toned and a bit foxed large thick octavo ppm xii 520 a little used throughout a few corners slightly turned the hinge at the title page is cracked but only slightly weak original green beveled cloth with a gilt decoration on the front cover rather rubbed and slightly marked the spine is frayed and worn at top and bottom and lacking a narrow strip at the top. Tipped-in at the front is a five-page offprint biograohy of Robert Gray. This has the stamp and signature of the Scottish geologist and palaeontologist John Hunter so it seems possible that the book was his also. First Edition. Cloth. Fair. Thomas Murray & Son Hardcover
1866036070London: John Van Voorst 1866. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp. xvi 284 tinted frontispiece plate with tissue guard. Green cloth binding near fine gilt bright bright gilt vignette to the front board. Contents clean and tight brown endpapers unmarked a few spots to edge of frontispiece margin otherwise unmarked. A very clean near fine first edition. John Van Voorst Hardcover
1890032681Edinburgh: David Douglas 1890 A good to very good copy illustrated with numerous drawings by the author. In the original green cloth binding with gilt titles to spine. Top page edges gilt. The spine is faded with pulling and some fraying to the top and bottom. Both boards have slight marking with the back board having a small cloth scuff. Corners lightly bumped and with wear. Internally there is some early splitting at the front endpaper joint. Contents: title with signature to top decorative title with crease to tissue guard prefaces contents and illustration list pp xv; half title Memoir text pp 3-34; half title letters; text pp 37-186; half title extracts from diaries; text pp 189-276; index 277-279; and publisher's catalogue dated October 1890 at the rear. Memoir and diary extracts profusely illustrated with Graham's drawings. Original page marker present - detached. Contents generally in very good clean condition. David Douglas hardcover
1900061224London: R.H.Porter 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Type: Book Tapemarks to endpapers bookplate address stamp.Map complete at rear. R.H.Porter hardcover
