ORNITHOLOGY
ALDERTON, DR. DAVID: The Atlas of Parrots. Drawings
by Graeme Stevenson.
T.F.H. Publications, 1991.
Coloured plates throughout. Large folio, pp.544, original
coloured laminated boards. Fine.
Quote Item No. 3961
Price: £40.00
ALDERTON, DAVID: The Complete Book of Finches and Softbills.
N.J., USA: T.F.H. Publications, n.d.
Profusely illustrated in colour. 4to, pp.192, original glazed
paper-covered boards in dustwrapper; an excellent copy.
Quote Item No. 6002
Price: £12.00
AUCTION CATALOGUE: John James Audubon. The Birds of
America. New York, September 14 and 15, 1987.
New York: Christie's, 1987.
Coloured frontispiece and profusely illustrated both in colour and
b&w. 4to, pp.253:[29], original pictorial wrappers; very
slight chipping to fore-edge of three pages.
This sale comprised 435 lots; price list loosely inserted.
Quote Item No. 2481
Price: £15.00
BAKER, E.C. STUART: The Game-Birds of India, Burma and
Ceylon. Volume 1: Ducks and their allies ( Swans, Geese and
Ducks). Volume 2: Snipe, Bustards & Sand-Grouse. Volume
3: Pheasants & Bustard-Quail. The Bombay Natural History
Society.
London: John Bale, 1921 - 1930.
Three volumes. Volume 1 with 30 coloured plates by Gronvold, Lodge
and Keulemans. Volume 2 with 10 coloured plates by Gronvold.
Volume 3 with 11 coloured plates. Volume 1 a second edition.
Three volumes 4to, Volumes 1 & 2 contemporary half green
morocco (Volume 2 faded to brown), Volume 3 three quarter green
cloth. Each volume with additional pictorial title.
Quote Item No. 6698
Price: £325.00
BROWN, DANNY: A Guide to Pigeons, Doves & Quail. Their
Management, Care & Breeding.
South Tweed Heads, N.S.W.: Australian Birdkeeper, 1995.
First edition. Illustrated in colour. 8vo, pp.184,
original glazed paper covers; slightly bumped edges, else an
excellent copy.
Quote Item No. 6005
Price: £20.00
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: £30.00
CLEMENTS, JAMES F: Birds of the World: A Check
List.
New York: Two Continents Pub. Group, 1974.
First edition. 8vo, pp.524, original cloth; upper inner
joint pulled otherwise sound in rubbed and torn d.w. S ome listings
ticked in pencil.
Quote Item No. 4948
Price: £10.00
COLLAR, N.J. and STUART, S.N: Threatened Birds of Africa
and Related Islands. The ICBP/IUCN Red Data Book, Part 1,
Third Edition.
Cambridge: ICBP, 1985.
Coloured plates. Large 8vo, pp.xxiv:761, original cloth;
very good in like d.w.
Quote Item No. 4481.
Price:£10.00
CUSA, NOEL: Tunnicliffe's
Birdlife.
With a Foreword by Sir Peter Scott.
London: Clive Holloway
Books, 1985.
First edition.
Illustrated in colour.
Large 4to, pp.150, original cloth in dustwrapper;
binding very good;
dustwrapper spine slightly faded else generally good;
internally excellent.
Quote Item No. 9281
Price: £40.00
FORBUSH, EDWARD HOWE: A Natural History of American Birds
of Eastern and Central North America.
New York: Bramhall House, 1955.
97 colour plates. 4to, pp.xxii:552. Original cloth;
slightly worn.
Quote Item No. 1064
Price: £21.00
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: £38.00
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; binding slightly and
unevenly faded, some discolouration to frontispiece, review pasted
in at end, the d.w. rubbed and torn
Quote Item No. 4487
Price: £55.00
HILL, NORMAN P: The Birds of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
New York: William Morrow, 1965.
First edition. Plates. 8vo, pp.364, original cloth; very
good in slightly edge rubbed d.w.
Quote Item No. 4954
Price: £12.00
KOBAYYASHI, KEISUKE: Common Birds of Japan in Colour.
Osaka: Hoikusha, 1967.
First edition. Profusely illustrated. 8vo, pp.173,
original blue cloth gilt in plastic ribbed d.w. as issued.
Very good. Japanese text.
Quote Item No. 4958
Price: £15.00
KOEPCKE, MARIA: The Birds of the Department of Lima, Peru.
Revised and enlarged.
Wynnewood, Penn.: Livingstone Pub. Co., 1970.
Illustrations in the text. 8vo, pp.144, original cloth; good in
price clipped d.w.
Quote Item No. 4959
Price: £12.00
LEKAGUL, BOONSONG, and CRONIN, EDWARD W: Bird Guide of
Thailand.
Bangkok: Association for the Conservation of Wildlife, 1974.
Numerous coloured plates. 8vo, ppxiv:316, original laminated boards;
tiny edge nick to one leaf, boards a trifle marked.
Quote Item No. 4468
Price: £15.00
MACKWORTH-PRAED, C.W. and GRANT, CAPTAIN C.H.B.: African Handbook of
Birds Series III.
Birds of West Central and Western Africa.
Two Volumes.
London: Longman, 1970.
First editions (Volume II published 1973).
Colour plates.
Two volumes, tall 8vo, pp.xxvii:671 and pp.vi:818, original cloth,
no dustwrappers; Volume
I with some slight shelf-wear to binding, with one leaf of text with
a number of creases vertically, some cracking to the joints but
stitching firm, generally very good;
Volume II, binding slightly soiled and corners slightly
frayed, internally joints cracked at last leaf of text and hinges
slightly loose, some staining to page edges, with an ink inscription
on front free-endpaper.
Quote Item No. 9955
Price: £30.00
MOREL, GERARD J. and MARIE-YVONNE: Les Oiseaux de Senegamble.
Paris: Orstom, 1990.
General map and numerous small distribution maps throughout.
8vo, pp.178, softback; very good. Inscribed and signed by both
authors.
Quote Item No. 10033
Price: £25.00
PALMER, STEPHEN (Editor): Wiltshire Birds.
Trowbridge: Wiltshire Ornithological Society, 1991.
Illustrations. 8vo, pp.84, original coloured wrappers.
Quote Item No. 4937
Price: £10.00
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.
Spine creased and rubbed, boards foxed and rubbed at corners. 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. Plates. 8vo, pp.256, original cloth;
very good in slightly yellowed d.w.
Quote Item No. 3020
Price: £25.00
SCHAUENSEE, RODOLPHE MEYER DE: The Birds of China.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Coloured plates. Large 8vo, pp.602, original laminated
wrappers; corners a little bumped, hand-written notes written
on inside of back cover else good.
Quote Item No. 4479
Price: £20.00
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;
binding rubbed; price on corner of final leaf partly torn away
not affecting text.
Quote Item No. 4953
Price: £12.00
SMITH, STUART: A New Naturalist Monograph.
The Yellow Wagtail.
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: £40.00
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