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1869VV333681869 Dijon, Manière-Loquin, 1869 : In-8 Carré, Broché. tirage limité à 250 exemplaires, 92 pp., extrait des Mémoires de l'Académie de Dijon, tome XV, 1868, rare avifaune régionale ! Très bon état, Couv. fraîche, Coiffe en pied abîmée, Quelques rousseurs.
188863425New York: George H. Holden 1888. Tall 8vo. 4 309 1 viii pp. including illustrated advertisements one illustrated w/ brass metallic ink. Colour chromolithograph frontisp. 11 colour chromolith plates text illustrations woodcut-engraved plates. Brown pictorial publisher’s cloth cover art illust. of canary in gilt & black gilt illust. of bid on spine black lettering front cover gilt lettering on spine rubbing & edgewear to head & foot of spine minor wear & bumping to corners inner hinges starting ex-lib markings on spine & endpapers still VG- copy w/ former bookplate on endpapers. Second edition of this significantly revised handbook on keeping birds including canaries finches robins nightingales and parrots featuring four additional chromolithograph plates an expanded section on parrots their diseases & breeding and fine illustrated ads. Holden 1848-1914 was a successful breeder and importer of exotic birds for his popular Sixth Avenue store and published several books for the caring and illnesses of birds such as Sparrows White Java Sparrows Cardinals Nightingales Mockingbirds finches parakeets parrots Toucans Canaries and more. Of particular interest in the appended catalogue is the added advertisements for the ornate brass nickel plated and bronze cages with metal bases for birds from Andrew B. Hendryx & Co. of New Haven CT. George H. Holden, hardcover
1853033929London: H. G. BOHN 1853. Book. Illus. by Stewart James Hope; Edward Lear. Selby P. J. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 8vo 19 x 13 cm. "With Considerable Additions On Structure Migration And Economy Compiled From Various Sources By H. G. Adams. Incorporating The Whole Of Sweet's British Warblers"; pp. xvi 500; 38 fine b/w engraved plates after James Hope Stewart Edwear Lear Selby with further full page and in-text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with extensive blind stamped decoration gilt lettering to the spine very good with light wear only spine slightly faded. Contents clean and tight original publisher's catalogue endpapers no inscriptions. A very good copy scarce in this condition. H. G. BOHN Hardcover
1846032769London : The Religious Tract Society 1846 A very good copy in the original decorative cloth binding with hand coloured frontispiece and 23 further hand coloured plates. Anonymous author. The binding has a gilt bird on a branch to the front board and gilt titles to spine. All edges gilted. The binding is bright and clean with light wear to corners. There is the beginning of a split at the front spine joint but the book is sound. Original yellow endpapers present. Contents with frontispiece and guard; title; contents and plate list; text 216pp with 23 guarded plates. Internally in very good clean condition with the occasional light mark or spot. The Religious Tract Society hardcover
1895038446London: Cassel and Company Limited 1895. Book. Very Good. Green Cloth. First Edition. Large 8vo approx. 17 x 24cm. pp. xx 368 b/w photographic frontispiece with tissue guard further b/w plates throughout. Original green cloth binding with gilt stamped vignette of gannet on nest to the front board gilt titling and decoration to the spine. Binding very good with a little general wear and rubbing cloth a little faded. Contents clean and tight just the endpapers a little spotted hinges good and strong text and plates clean. A very good copy. Cassel and Company, Limited Hardcover
1878ZOOL0288Lpz., Bibliograph. Inst. 1878/79. Lex.-8°, XIV, 754 S., mit 140 Abb. im Text u. 17 Taf.; XVI, 699 S., mit 206 Abb. im Text u. 20 Taf.; XVI, 671 S., mit 96 Abb. im Text u. 18 Taf.; OLnbde. m. dekorativer Goldpräg., leicht berieb., alle Spiegel m. Besitzerstemp. Bd.1: Papageien, Leichtschnäbler, Schwirrvögel, Spechte und Raubvögel; Bd. 2: Raubvögel, Sperlingsvögel und Girrvögel; Bd. 3: Scharrvögel, Kruzflügler, Stelzvögel, Zahnschnäbler, Seeflieger, Ruderfüßler, Taucher.
184501111262Concord NH: Rufus Merrill c1845. 16 pp. booklet with original yellow paper wraps with 9 woodcut illustrations. Nine 9 identified illustrations include Lyre Bird swallow Boat Bill Roseate Spoon bill Blue Jay Hoopoe Robin Belted Kingfisher and doves. Accompanied by narrative description and rhyming verse. 2 3/4" x 4 1/2" chapbook. Make-do sewing repair along back strip. <br/><br/> Rufus Merrill paperback books
184501111262Concord NH: Rufus Merrill c1845. 16 pp. booklet with original yellow paper wraps with 9 woodcut illustrations. Nine 9 identified illustrations include Lyre Bird swallow Boat Bill Roseate Spoon bill Blue Jay Hoopoe Robin Belted Kingfisher and doves. Accompanied by narrative description and rhyming verse. 2 3/4" x 4 1/2" chapbook. Make-do sewing repair along back strip. <br/><br/> Rufus Merrill paperback
1892003532London: R. H. Porter 1892. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp 329. "With 174 b/w illustrations whereof 140 are original drawings" Original green cloth binding with gilt lettering a little edge-wear a few marks and general rubbing. Contents clean and tight no inscriptions or foxing. A good to very good copy of this rare Mivart work. R. H. Porter Hardcover
1896011866Chicago IL: Nature Study Publishing Company 1896. Ex-Library. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Deaccessioned from non-circulating museum library nominally marked/stamped little actual wear clear-coated spine panel slightly age-toned with hand-written call number on lower portion. Bound in dark green cloth with gilt lettering on spine panel text block very slightly trimmed. Volumes 1-3 1897-98 complete: Volume I Jan.-June 1897 224 pp. continuously paginated with index; Volume II July-Dec. 1897 240 pp. continuously paginated; Volume III Jan.-June 1898 240 pp. continuously paginated with index. Each issue contains 8 or 9 gorgeous full color plates; also retained here are the full color covers of Vol. I Nos. 1 and 2 unknown whether succeeding issues continued with color covers thus approx. 150 plates total all essentially as issued some with small library stamp on verso only. Text block is clean and otherwise unmarked. This title appears to have ceased publication at the conclusion of Vol. IV so this offering comprises 75% of the total run. Originally from the personal library of Reading Pennsylvania Public Museum director Levi Mengel. Nature Study Publishing Company Hardcover
1886033934London: R. H. Porter 1886. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo 22 x 14 cm. Pasted onto the front paste-down is an autographed letter from the author dated Jan 19. 1987. My dear Sir Many thanks for Y. polite note. I now know what to do - when y have my book please attach the enclosed to leaf opposite 'errata' it is ready gummed. My publisher played pranks! e.g. inserted 'thank' p. 63 line 2. I am truly Ys. Gregory Smart Lytham Preston Jan 19. 87" The referred to original printed leaf is duly pasted onto the last page and is essentially a reply to an adverse review. 'Birds of the British List To the Editor of the. Dear Sir. - Will you kindly admit the following communication to your next issue. A critique having appeared in a London paper stating that I have in my book upon "Birds on the British List" perverted the opinions of our greater authorities upon Birds. I send you an extract from a letter from Mr. Seebohm than whom there is no greater authority on the subject.' Pp. xxiv 148 4 2. Original green cloth with gilt lettering to the spine very goodwith light wear only. Contents good and tight bookplate of the Daltry Library ncorporating the letters NSFC i.e. North Staffs Field Club and also of The Wells Bladen Gift 1917 to the front free end paper a little foxing to the first and last few pages. A very good copy with author's letter. R. H. Porter Hardcover
1874101062Washington, 1874. XI, 791 S. OLwd. Rücken fehlt. Einbd. angestaubt u. gelockert. Sign. a. Vors. (Miscell. publ. US Geolog. Surv. terr. 3).
1872037067London: John Van Voorst 1872. Book. Illus. by Keulemans J. G. frontispiece. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo. pp. xii 231 pages; frontispiece plate"A Flamborough Trophy Fulmar Petrel." by Keulemans. Green cloth boards very good with a little general wear. Contents clean and tight some foxing to the endpapers on the reverse of the front free endpaper are the signatures of Alexander William Clark Kennedy of the Cold Stream guards 1873 and the initials of Rev. F. C. R Joudain 1899. A good book with a significant provenance firstly belonging to A. W. Clark Kennedy and later given to Rev. Francis Jourdain author of books such as A Handbook of British Birds by Kirkman and Joudain Clark-Kennedy Alexander William Maxwell 1851 -1894 Alexander William Maxwell Clark- Kennedy was born at Rochester Kent. He attended school at Aldershot and then at Eton College. He married Hon. Lettice Lucy Hewitt daughter of James 4th Viscount Lifford d. 1939 in Donegal in 1875 with whom he had five sons and two daughters. In 1867 he inherited the family estate of Knockgray in Galloway. While still at Eton at the age of sixteen he wrote The birds of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire: a contribution to the natural history of the two counties Eton 1868 which proved very popular. Following Eton he joined the Coldstream Guards rising to the rank of Captain. He continued his interests in hunting shooting and fishing and was a member of several societies and associations becoming a Fellow of the Linnaean Society and the Antiquarian Society of Scotland. He also penned To the Arctic regions and back in six weeks : being a summer tour to Lapland and Norway : with notes on sport and natural history London 1878 and Robert the Bruce: a poem historical and romantic London 1884. Ref: Ballance p203; Freeman 817; Mullens & Swann p.144. John Van Voorst Hardcover
1872038272London: John Van Voorst 1872. Book. Illus. by Keulemans J. G. frontispiece. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo. pp. xii 231 pages; frontispiece plate"A Flamborough Trophy Fulmar Petrel." by Keulemans. Green cloth boards very good with a little general wear scuffed to the top and bottom of the spine binding is firm. Contents clean and tight the front endpaper is worn along the hinge but does not affect the binding bookplate belonging to Charles Francis Wyatt of Broughton Rectory Oxon a well known collector of the late 19th century two newspaper cuttings dated 1899 1888 tipped onto the front free endpaper. Ref: Ballance p203; Freeman 817; Mullens & Swann p.144. Charles Francis Wyatt 1820-1906 was rector of Broughton Oxfordshire and an antiquary. John Van Voorst Hardcover
1870023368Marlborough & London: Perkins "Times Office"; Simpkin Marshall & Co. 1870. Small octavo pp viii 117 very clean internally original green blind-stamped cloth with gilt central decoration on the front cover the very slightest signs of use but really an exceptionally clean bright copy. From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter with his stamp on the front endpaper. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Perkins, "Times Office"; Simpkin, Marshall & Co. Hardcover
1898036527London: Longmans Green & Co. 1898. Book. Illus. by Bryon Hook Photographs from Nature R. B. Lodge. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Pp. xiv 339 40 ; b/w frontispiece of a crow by Bryon Hook further black and white plates and illustrations all present and correct; int-text illustrations. Original green cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine and a gilt vignette to the front board very goood with a little general wear. Contents clean and tight original black end papers tipped in before the half title is a sheet with a newspaper extract on Hudson's death dated 1922. A very good copy. Longmans, Green & Co. Hardcover
1889033226London: Gurney and Jackson 1889. Book. Illus. by Chapman Abel. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author to Letter. First Edition. 8vo. Pp. xii 286 2 pages adverts; numerous fine pen and ink drawings and in-text illustrations throughout by Abel Loosly inserted into the book is a letter from Abel Chapmen to Canon Farquhar of Queensferry. Original blue cloth titled in gilt on spine. Binding very good and bright no fading to the spine light wear only to the top and bottom of the spine; a few raised bubbles to the cloth on the front board. Content clean and tight original brown endpapers private book plate of C. Antony Norris to the reverse of the front free endpaper no foxing no inscriptions. A very good copy. Gurney and Jackson Hardcover
1889036460London: Gurney and Jackson 1889. Book. Illus. by Chapman Abel. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Pp. xii 286 2 pages adverts; numerous fine pen and ink drawings and in-text illustrations throughout by Abel Chapman. Original blue cloth titled in gilt on spine. Binding very good and bright light wear only to the top and bottom of the spine and corners. Content clean and tight original brown endpapers wear along the hinge unmarked but for the pencil signature of F. S. Chapman no relative but the explorer and author also signed in pencil to the half title to the reverse of the front free endpaper no foxing no inscriptions. A very good copy. BIOG. Frederick Spencer Chapman DSO & Bar ED 1907 - 1971 was a British Army officer and World War II veteran most famous for his exploits behind enemy lines in Japanese occupied Malaya. His medals include the following: the Distinguished Service Order and Bar the Polar Medal Gill Memorial Medal Mungo Park Medal and the Lawrence of Arabia Memorial Medal. He joined many expeditions. Chapman was attached as "ski expert and naturalist" to Gino Watkins' 1930 -31 British Arctic Air Route Expedition. Expedition members included John Rymill and Augustine Courtauld. He also joined Watkins' subsequent fatal Greenland Expedition of 1932-33 which was led by Rymill after Watkins' death. Chapman experienced cold of such intensity that he lost all his finger and toe nails. Gurney and Jackson Hardcover
1853012031London: Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge/C. Cox 1853. Ex-Library. Good. Half-Leather. First Thus. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Two volumes bound as one: Bird-Architecture SPUK 1853 304 pp. Bird Miscellanies Cox 1847 386 pp. Brown pebbled cloth originally 1/2 leather rebacked in black cloth tape with handwritten title leather corners showing exposed tips and surfaces considerably rubbed. Lacking front flyleaf opening on to title page with cloth tape repair to front hinge obscuring approx. 10% along binding edge; rear hinge also repaired. 304386 pp. illus. w/ several reproduced engravings. Beyond the obvious cosmetic flaws shows a clean text block showing just a bit of toning with firm binding. Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge/C. Cox Hardcover
1898101036New York, Daubleday & McClure, 1898. 4°. M. 52 farb. Taf. XII, 234 S. OLwd. Einbd. gelockert.
1899038275London: R. H. Porter 1899. Book. Illus. by Meinertzhagen Dan. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 143 pages and 27 b/w etchings by Meinertzhagen to the rear; frontispiece plate and portrait of Meinertzhagen b/w photographic plates throughout. Original hardback binding very good with a little general wear and some rubbing to the spine. Contents clean and tight slipped in is the obit. paper cutting for Meinertzhagen Feb. 17 1898previous owner's name tot he front free endpaper and very light spotting no inscriptions. A very good complete copy. R. H. Porter Hardcover
1886101278Graz, 1886. (S.-A.a.: Mittheil. d. naturwiss. Ver. Steiermark 1885). M. 2 Textholzschn. 97 S. OBr. Umschl. gebräunt u. teils angerissen sowie m. Widm. d. Verf.
18822236FBBerlin, Louis Gerschel Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1882. 8°. 20 x 14 cm. 3 Blatt, Titelblatt, 5 Blatt, 404 Seiten. Halbelderband auf vier Bünden mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel sowie goldgeprägten Rückenornamenten. Roter Farbschnitt.
1887167452Leiden, Adriani, 1887. 132 S. OBr. Rücken u. hint. Umschl. angerissen u. m. kl. Fehlstellen. Umschl. angeschmutzt. Unaufgeschn.
1893167461(Batavia, Kolff, 1893). (S.-A.a.: Naturk. Tijdschr. voor Nederl.-Indie 52). S. 181-208. Br. Umschl. angestaubt u. m. kl. Knickspuren. Unaufgeschn.
