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1891e3201aLondon: R H Porter. VG: in very good condition. Spines faded. Occasional slight foxing. 1891. Second Edition. Green hardback half-leather cover. 260mm x 170mm 10" x 7". xxxv 969pp. 421 chromolithographed colour plates mounted on linen guards. Illustrated by Archibald Thorburn and J G Keulemans. Text and plates neatly paginated in pencil. Index in Volume VII. Note that the work was issued in two editions. The first commenced in October 1885 and the second in April 1891. Both editions ended simultaneously. Heavy set extra shipping needed for overseas. . R H Porter hardcover
1886013815New York: American Ornithologists' Union 1886. Ex-library edgewear hinges repaired with linen tape 392 pages. Binding is tight insides clean. Original binding. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Ex-Library. American Ornithologists' Union Hardcover
1881012044Morrisville NY: Greene Smith Museum Printed at the Madison Observer Office 1881. Ex-Library. VG. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Brown cloth lettered in gilt on front panel. Deaccessioned from non-circulating museum library nominally marked/stamped clear-coated spine panel slightly age-toned with handwritten call number on lower portion. Modest shelf wear lightly rubbed corners and spine extremities. 162 pp. Clean interior firm binding. Very scarce. Greene Smith Museum [Printed at the Madison Observer Office] Hardcover
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
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
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
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
1891023337Edinburgh: David Douglas 1891. Illustrated a double-page coloured map large octavo pp xxiv 314 top edge gilt the fore-edge lightly untrimmed very clean internally a decorated title page a 16-page publisher's catalogue at the rear original green cloth slightly faded a small private shelf number on the spine the spine frayed at the base lacking a small piece at the top a small split to the top of the upper spine. From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter with his stamp on the half-title. First Edition. Cloth. Good. David Douglas Hardcover
1895020567Edinburgh: David Douglas 1895. Two volumes. Illustrated large ocyavo pp xxii ii 306; 309 publisher's catalogue 18 pages a folding map at the rear in good condition slight age-toning to the page margins slight adhesion damage to the front endpapers of the second volume otherwise very good internally green cloth very slightly worn the spines very slightly faded the upper cover of volume two is rather marked and blotched. The Oates Library copy with the bookplate of Robert Washington Oates and his blind-stamp on the front endpapers also the blind-stamp of Durrant House Bournemouth and the small Bibliotheca Oatesiana stamp on the half titles and the last page. The first volume also has the earlier armorial bookplte of R.D. Jackson. First Edition. Cloth. Good. David Douglas Hardcover
1858033219London: Lovell Reeve 1858 A very good copy of the 1st edition in the original decorative cloth binding with 20 hand coloured plates. Part of Lovell Reeve's Popular Natural History series where a number of authors were chosen to introduce their subjects to young people in a way that would give a good foundation while inspiring them to study further. This copy is in the original binding which is very bright and clean. The gilt decoration on the front board is slightly dulled. Spine ends have light pulling and there is light wear to corners. Contents complete with hand coloured frontispiece and 19 further plates. 1 page ad for the Literary Gazette at the rear. There is an ink inscription at the front free endpaper. Top and side page edges rough with the occasional very small edge tear. Contents are clean with light spotting which occasionally affects plates. Light marking to endpapers. Lovell Reeve hardcover
1898028936Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co. 1898. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp. xiv 256 16 pages of adverts at year; b/w portrait frontispiece of the author; 9 further b/w plates; folding map at end; in-text vingette. Original green buckram cloth binding with gilt lettering good and strong but somewhat worn and rubbed; cloth marked and tanned. Contents good and tight a little spotting and foxing a few pages marked; private bookplate to the front paste-down. A good copy of the first edition. "Journey of the British explorer & ornithologist in 1894 from Kolguev Island up the Pechora River & then west to the White Sea". Archibald Constable & Co. Hardcover
1867fom05acLondon: Groombridge and Sons. G : in good condition. Covers rubbed. Spines faded. Blank labels to front paste-downs. Staining to eps of volume II. Occasional light foxing. 1867. Reprint. Grey-blue gilt decorated hardback cloth cover. 260mm x 180mm 10" x 7". iv 156pp; iv 148pp; iv 140pp plates. 225 colour plates. Heavy set extra shipping needed for overseas. . Groombridge and Sons hardcover
1870030898LONDON: George Bell & Sons 1870 A nice set of the second edition of Morris's History of British Birds. In 6 volumes with original decorative cloth bindings and 365 hand coloured plates as called for. The bindings are all clean with bright gilt pictures of birds to each front board and gilt titles and decoration to spine. There is some wear: volume I has some cloth splitting at the hinges and splitting at the rear endpaper with rubbing to corners; volumes II III and IV have very slight pulling to top and bottom of spine and a little rubbing at corners; volume V has very small splits at the top and bottom of the spine; and volume VI has a 1 inch tear at the top of the spine with no loss and scuffing at the corners. Internally all have the original endpapers; the first section including the frontispiece is becoming loose on volumes I II and III; volume IV is sound but the stitching is looser than on the others. There is a little spotting to some plates and text pages but in general the contents are very clean looking unread and the plates are bright and well coloured. A few plates in volume III lack tissue guards and the plate of the Whitethroat is present but detached. Volume 5 has 4 plates present but detached: the Little Stint Schinz's Sandpiper Pochard and Polish Swan - and pages 131-134 the same. A few pages have been roughly opened and a few have darkening to edges. Overall the set is complete with bright bindings and well coloured plates. George Bell & Sons hardcover
