ORNITHOLOGY
AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES: John James Audubon. The Birds of
America.
New York: Christies, Manson & Wood., 1987.
Auction catalogue for the sale in New York, September 14 and 15,
1987. Coloured frontispiece and profusely illustrated both in colour and
black & white. 4to, pp.253:[29], softcover; slight chipping and
creasing to top of spine, corners slightly bumped; internally, very
slight chipping to fore-edge of three pages, else very good. This
sale comprised 435 lots; price list loosely inserted.
Quote Item No. 2481
Price: £15.00
BROWN, LESLIE: British Birds of Prey.
A Study of Britain's 24 Diurnal Raptors.
The New Naturalist No. 60.
London: Collins, 1976.
First edition.
Illustrated with black & white photographic plates.
Tall 8vo, pp.400, original cloth in dustwrapper;
binding very good;
dustwrapper spine faded and top edge bumped, now with a
plastic cover which is adhered to the inside edges of the
dustwrapper; internally,
page edges lightly browned otherwise very good.
Quote Item No. 11180
Price: £17.00
CLARK, J.M. and EYRE, J.A. [Editors]:
Birds of Hampshire. Hampshire Ornithological Society, 1993.
First edition. Colour photographic plates. Large
8vo, pp.512, original blue cloth lettered in silver on spine and
upper cover in dustwrapper; edges of dustwrapper very slightly
browned; very faint splash mark on upper cover of dustwrapper
and some very slight dents and edge-bumping; errata sheet
loosely inserted at rear; in all other respects excellent.
Quote Item No. 7372
Price: £16.00
CLEMENTS, JAMES F.: Birds of the World: A Check
List.
New York: Two Continents Pub. Group, 1974.
First edition. 8vo, pp.524, original clothin price-clipped
dustwrapper; binding edge-rubbed especially at headbands;
dustwrapper poor with a long creased tear to side of spine and
another creased tear at bottom front edge, generally edge-rubbed and
creased, spine faded; internally, page edges spotted, upper inner
joint pulled otherwise sound, some listings ticked in pencil.
Quote Item No. 4948
Price: £9.00
FISHER, JAMES
and
LOCKLEY, R.M.: Sea-Birds.
An Introduction to the Natural History of
the Sea-Birds of the North Atlantic.
The New Naturalist No. 28.
London: Collins, 1954.
First edition. With 9
colour photographs, 68 black & white photographs and 66 maps and
diagrams. Tall 8vo,
pp.320, original cloth in dustwrapper;
binding with a slight bump to two top corners otherwise very
good; dustwrapper spine
very slightly faded, a tiny amount of foxing but generally good and
very bright; internally,
very light foxing to endpapers and prelimins otherwise extremely
good.
Quote Item No. 11182
Price: £70.00
FORBUSH, EDWARD HOWE: A Natural History of American Birds
of Eastern and Central North America.
New York: Bramhall House, 1955.
Reprint. 97 colour plates. 4to, pp.xxii:552, original green vinyl,
no dustwrapper; very slight shelf-wear to binding, else very good.
Quote Item No. 1064
Price: £9.00
GRIMES, L.G.: The Birds of Ghana.
An annotated check-list.
B.O.U. Check-list No. 9.
British ornithologists' Union 1987.
First edition. Tall 8vo,
pp.276, softcover; very
slight vertical creasing to cover, else an excellent copy.
Quote Item No. 9949
Price: £25.00
HALL, B.P and MOREAU, R.E: An Atlas of Speciation in
African Passerine Birds.
London: British Museum, 1970.
Large folio, pp.xv;423, original cloth in dustwrapper; binding
slightly and unevenly faded; dustwrapper poor, with a number of
creased and chipped tears along all edges (some loss), extremely
rubbed; internally, page edges foxed, some discolouration to
frontispiece, review pasted in at end.
Quote Item No. 4487
Price: £45.00
HANCOCK,
JAMES and ELLIOTT, HUGH; GILLMOR, ROBERT and HAYMAN, PETER: The
Herons of the World, paintings by Robert Gillmor and Peter Hayman.
London: London Editions, 1978.
First edition. Coloured plates throughout. Folio (14 x 9½
inches), 304-pages. Original cloth; a very nice copy indeed in
partially faded and slightly edge creased dustwrapper. Signed by
James Hancock on the half-title.
Quote Item No. 11708
Price: £25.00
HILL, NORMAN P: The Birds of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
New York: William Morrow, 1965.
First edition. Black & white plates. 8vo, pp.364,
original cloth in dustwrapper; binding very good; dustwrapper with
creased tear (some small loss) to top edge, some other tiny
edge-tears and rubbing; internally, very good.
Quote Item No. 4954
Price: £10.00
KOBAYASHI, KEISUKE: Common Birds of Japan in Colour.
Osaka: Hoikusha, 1967.
First edition. Japanese text. Profusely illustrated. 8vo, pp.173,
original blue cloth gilt in plastic ribbed dustwrapper as issued;
generally, very good.
Quote Item No. 4958
Price: £15.00
MORRIS,
F.O. [FRANCIS ORPEN]: A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs
of British Birds.
London: George Bell, 1875.
Second edition. Three
volumes. 233 coloured plates. Royal 8vo (10¼
x 7¼
inches). Original green cloth, boards blocked in blind with
central gilt blocked nest with eggs, spines elaborately gilt.
Inner gutter between pages viii & 1 cracked but very firm.
Headband of Volume 3 slightly pulled causing very short split.
Lower fore-corners of boards a little rubbed. Some light foxing to
prelims. It would be hard to find a nicer set, the bindings
remarkably fresh and bright, the text and plates free from foxing.
Quote Item No. 11640
Price: £720.00
PARKER, JOHN W.
[Publisher]: The Book of Birds (Class
Aves). The Fourth Edition.
London: John W. Parker, 1839.
Wood engraved frontispiece and illustrations. 12 mo (5½ x 3¾ inches), 160-pages. Original
green blindstamped cloth; spine cocked, generally good. 19th Century
inscription on front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 11416
Price: £25.00
PINTO, OLIVERIO MARIO DE OLIVEIRA: Ornitologia Brasiliense.
Catalogo descritivo e ilustrado das Aves do Brasil. Primeiro volume.
Parte introdutoria e Familias Rheidae a Cuculidae.
Sao Paulo: Departamento de Zoologia da Secretaria da Agricultura,
1964.
25 coloured plates. Folio, pp.182:(1), original cloth backed boards,
no dustwrapper. Spine bumped, creased and rubbed, boards foxed and
browned along edges, and extremely bumped and rubbed at corners
(with loss of surface); internally, joint partly broken following
title-leaf. Numbered "590" on verso of title.
Quote Item No. 4944
Price: £35.00
PRENDERGARST, E.D.V. and BOYS, J. V: The Birds of Dorset.
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1983.
First edition. Black & white plates. 8vo, pp. 256, original
cloth in dustwrapper; binding excellent; dustwrapper slightly
yellowed, spine faded, some bumping to edges, inner edges of
dustwrapper soiled; internally, page edges slightly browned, else
good.
Quote Item No. 3020
Price: £9.00
SCHAUENSEE, RODOLPHE MEYER DE: The Birds of China.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Coloured plates. Large 8vo, pp.602, softcover; short tear to
top corner of spine, corners a little bumped, front leading edge a
little "thumbed", some shelf-wear; internally, page edges slightly
grubby, hand-written notes written on inside of back cover.
Quote Item No. 4479
Price: £9.00
SEVERINGHAUS, SHELDON R. and BLACKSHAW, KENNETH TURNER: A
New Guide to the Birds of Taiwan.
Taipei: Mei Ya Publications, 1976.
8 coloured plates. Small 8vo, pp.222, original pictorial cloth no
dustwrapper; binding generally rubbed; internally, price on corner
of final leaf partly torn away not affecting text, else good.
Quote Item No. 4953
Price: £9.00
SMITH, STUART: The Yellow Wagtail.
A New Naturalist Monograph.
London:
Collins, 1950.
First edition. Colour
plates. 8vo, pp.xiv:178,
original cloth in dustwrapper;
binding very good;
dustwrapper poor with a number of chips, creasing and
tears along edges with some loss and some edge browning;
internally, a 5cm tear to the back endpaper running down from
the top edge along the hinge crease, some light foxing to endpapers
and page edges, in all other respects, very good.
Quote Item No. 9948
Price: £25.00
SMITH, STUART: The Yellow Wagtail.
The New Naturalist Monograph No. 4.
London: Collins, 1950.
First edition. With 26
paintings by Edward Bradbury, 11 black & white photographs taken by
the author, 4 line drawings and 4 maps.
Tall 8vo, pp.178, original cloth in dustwrapper;
binding unevenly faded otherwise very good;
dustwrapper foxed but otherwise very good and bright;
internally, page edges and endpapers lightly foxed, generally
extremely good.
Quote Item No. 11160
Price: £30.00
YARRELL, WILLIAM: A History of British Birds. Illustrated
by 550 wood-engravings. Third edition, with many additions.
London: John van Voorst, 1856.
Three volumes. 8vo, full contemporary polished tan calf,
double gilt rules to sides, spines gilt with raised bands, all edges
gilt; the binding by Bickers, London. Gilt to spines
dulled or a little rubbed; generally a very good copy in a
strong and handsome binding.
Attractive armorial bookplates.
Quote Item No. 3677
Price: £150.00