‎Ornithology‎

‎OLIVER, W.R.B.‎

‎New Zealand Birds. Second Edition. Revised and enlarged.‎

‎Wellington, A.H. & A.W. Reed, (1955). Small 4to. Orig. full cloth. 661 pp., richly textillustrated and 12 photographic colourplates. Bookplate of Lorenz Ferdinand.‎

Bookseller reference : 43188

‎OLIVER, W.R.B.‎

‎New Zealand Birds. Second Edition. Revised and enlarged.‎

‎Wellington, A.H. & A.W. Reed, (1955). Small 4to. Orig. full cloth. 661 pp., richly textillustrated and 12 photographic colourplates. Bookplate of Lorenz Ferdinand.‎

‎OLIVIER (G.-N.) et LEBAILLIF (R.).-‎

‎L'élevage du Col-Vert.‎

‎Noyelles-sur-Mer, Association Nationale des Chasseurs de Gibier d'Eau, 1967, in 8° broché, 46 pages ; nombreuses illustrations ; couverture illustrée.‎

‎...................... Photos sur demande ..........................‎

Bookseller reference : 47921

‎Olsen, Penny (Verfasserin)‎

‎Adler und Geier‎

‎Hamburg, Jahr-Verlag, (1991?). fester Pappband, mit farbigem Deckelphoto, etwas gr. DinA 4, 68 Seiten, viele Farbphotos und Farbabbildungen, Einband mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren, beschabt, berieben und bestoßen, leicht fleckig, M-Stempel auf hinterem Innendeckel, insgesamt gut erhalten / insgesamt guter Zustand‎

‎Reihe: Großtiere dieser Welt; Inhalt: Was sind Greifvögel ?; Echte Adler; Seeadler; Der gewaltige Affenfresser; Schlangenadler; Neuweltgeier; Altweltgeier; Vogelbeobachtung; Der Sekretär; Glossar; Liste der wissenschaftlichen Namen; Index‎

Bookseller reference : 16363ti

‎Ormond, Jacques F‎

‎Vols d'oiseaux. instantanés.‎

‎Genève:, Roto-Sadag, 1941. Lex.-8°. 84 S., Engl. broschiert (Ex Libris auf Innendeckel; Besitzervermerk auf Titelblatt; Umschlag angebräunt und befleckt)‎

Bookseller reference : 85642BB

‎ORNITHOLOGY: THE WILLUGHBY SOCIETY‎

‎A Group of Six Pubications.‎

‎London: Willughby Society 1880-1884. Newton A. DESFONTAINES'S MEMOIRE SUR QUELQUES NOUVELLES ESPE D'OISEAUX DES COTES DE BARBARIE iv 10 pages of text 7 plates 1880. Salvin O. LEACH'S SYSTEMATIC CATALOGUE OF THE SPECIMENS OF THE INDIGINEOUS MAMMALIA AND BIRDS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM 42 pages light foxing throughout 1882. Godman F. Du Cane LICHTENSTEIN'S CATALOGUS RERUM NATURALIUM RARISSIMARUM 60 pages foxing throughout 1882. Newton A. SCOPOLI'S ORNITHOLOGICAL PAPERS FROM HIS DELICIAE FLORAE ET FAUNAE INSUBRICAE 20 pages spine split and holding at the ties 1882. Salvin O. BARTON'S FRAGMENTS OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA 23 pages foxing on preliminary pages front board detached 1883. Saunders H. VIEILOT'S ANALYSE D'UNE NOUVELLE ORNITHOLOGIE ELEMENTAIRE 70 pages 1883. All unopened in the original red stiff wrappers. Some rubbing but very good. Francis Willughby sometimes spelt Willoughby 1635 �1672 was an English ornithologist and ichthyologist and an early student of linguistics and games. He was born and raised at Middleton Hall Warwickshire the only son of an affluent country family. He was a student at Trinity College Cambridge where he was tutored by the mathematician and naturalist John Ray who became a lifetime friend and colleague and lived with Willughby after 1662 when he lost his livelihood through his refusal to sign the Act of Uniformity. Willughby was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1661 then aged 27. He died of pleurisy in July 1672 aged 36. Willughby Society unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 74213

‎Ornithology Cornell Lab of‎

‎ALL ABOUT BACKYARD BIRDS: EASTERN & CENT tr�� Cornell Lab Publishing Cornell Lab of Ornithology‎

‎Princeton University Press/The Cornell Lab Publishing Group. PAPERBACK. 1943645043 Remainder mark . Fine. Princeton University Press/The Cornell Lab Publishing Group paperback‎

Bookseller reference : Z1943645043Z1 ISBN : 1943645043 9781943645046

‎Ornithology Cornell Lab of‎

‎ALL ABOUT BACKYARD BIRDS: EASTERN & CENT tr�� Cornell Lab Publishing Cornell Lab of Ornithology‎

‎Princeton University Press/The Cornell Lab Publishing Group. PAPERBACK. 1943645043 . New. Princeton University Press/The Cornell Lab Publishing Group paperback‎

Bookseller reference : Z1943645043ZN ISBN : 1943645043 9781943645046

‎Ornithology Cornell Lab of‎

‎ALL ABOUT BACKYARD BIRDS: WESTERN NORTH� tr Cornell Lab Publishing Cornell Lab of Ornithology‎

‎Princeton University Press/The Cornell Lab Publishing Group. PAPERBACK. 194364506X . New. Princeton University Press/The Cornell Lab Publishing Group paperback‎

Bookseller reference : Z194364506XZN ISBN : 194364506X 9781943645060

‎Ornithology Cornell Lab of‎

‎ALL ABOUT BACKYARD BIRDS: EASTERN & CENT tr�� Cornell Lab Publishing Cornell Lab of Ornithology‎

‎Princeton University Press/The Cornell Lab Publishing Group. PAPERBACK. 1943645043 Brand NewVCF . New. Princeton University Press/The Cornell Lab Publishing Group paperback‎

Bookseller reference : OTF-S-9781943645046 ISBN : 1943645043 9781943645046

‎ORNITHOLOGY. COLOR PLATE BOOKS. WILSON ALEXANDER and GEORGE ORD‎

‎AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY; OR THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BIRDS OF THE UNITED STATES‎

‎Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep; Samuel F. Bradford 1808-14; 1824. FIRST EDITION of volumes I-VI and IX with Sabin's First Issue points for volume I; volumes VII-VIII from the reissue of 1824. 353 x 270 mm. 14 x 10 5/8". Nine volumes. FIRST EDITION of volumes I-VI and IX with Sabin's First Issue points for volume I; volumes VII-VIII from the reissue of 1824. 19th century red straight-grain morocco gilt and blind-tooled borders raised bands compartments tooled and lettered in gilt gilt dentelles. WITH 76 FINE HAND-COLORED PLATES AFTER ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR. Title page and a few other leaves with small embossed stamp of the Pavlovsk Museum in Cyrillic; volume I with the bookplate of Herbert McLean Evans on pastedown; some evidence of removed bookplates or labels in a few volumes. Fine Bird Books pp. 155-57; Anker 533; Zimmer pp. 679-81; Bennett p. 114; Reese 3; Sabin 104596 & 104597. Edges and corners a bit rubbed spines slightly sunned some faint scratches and a few minor stains on the boards but THE ORIGINAL UNRESTORED BINDINGS REMARKABLY WELL PRESERVED AND ALTOGETHER ATTRACTIVE. Some minor offsetting from the plates a touch of soiling to title page of volume I and plates 23 and 24 in volume III about half the pages in volume VI noticeably foxed and toned as in all copies we could trace because of different paper stock used but the other volumes IN UNUSUALLY FINE BRIGHT CLEAN CONDITION INTERNALLY AND ALL OF THE PLATES even those in the sixth volume CLEAN SMOOTH AND PLEASING. This is an unusually attractive contemporary copy of a foundational work in the study of birds the first scientific work with color plates published in America and the inspiration for Audubon's epoch-making work on the subject. Although a few books on American ornithology were published in Europe prior to the present work this set was far superior both in artistry and in the quality of the scientific information it contained. It was also enormously influential to generations of ornithologists that came after Wilson. Serendipitously as DNB tells us Wilson 1766-1813 actually met Audubon on a trip in 1810 during which the author gathered sketches of new birds and advertised the volumes he had already published. Although Audubon lacked the funds to purchase a set "seeing what Wilson was achieving inspired him to publish his own illustrations after Wilson's death." We may hardly wonder at the young Audubon's amazement; according to Bennett this was "the first truly outstanding American color plate book of any type" and is "absolutely basic as a collectors' item while being somewhat unjustly overshadowed by the enormous and more beautiful Audubon giant folios actually printed in Great Britain." Volumes I-VII were all published during the author's lifetime while Volumes VIII-IX were issued after his death by his friend and editor George Ord who wrote the text for the final volume though using Wilson's original plates. Ord 1781-1866 later reissued Volumes VII-VIII in 1824 with revised nomenclature and other changes to the text. Our copy contains these two reissued volumes along with the first editions of the others. Apparently this make-up is not uncommon--Zimmer notes the same composition in the Newberry's copy. Our set has a distinguished provenance containing the stamp of the Pavlovsk Museum once a great palace constructed by Catherine the Great for her eldest son. The more recent bookplate belongs to the noted embryologist Herbert McLean Evans 1882-1971 whose vast collection of books related to science and medicine went mainly to the Harry Ransom Center. This work is almost always found with significant browning and foxing; in our set only Volume VI contains such condition issues as is virtually always the case while the remaining volumes are remarkably well preserved. Bradford and Inskeep; Samuel F. Bradford unknown‎

Bookseller reference : ST13994

‎Ornithology Cornell Lab of‎

‎Bird a Day 2020 Interactive Daily Calendar Eastern & Central North America Cornell Lab of Ornithology‎

‎Princeton University Press/The Cornell Lab Publishing Group. CALENDAR. 0691197407 Brand NewVCF . New. Princeton University Press/The Cornell Lab Publishing Group unknown‎

Bookseller reference : DTH-S-9780691197401 ISBN : 0691197407 9780691197401

‎Ornithology Cornell Lab of‎

‎BIRD-A-DAY 2019 DAILY CALENDAR: WESTERN� cal�� Cornell Lab Publishing Cornell Lab of Ornithology‎

‎Princeton University Press/The Cornell Lab Publishing Group. CALENDAR. 1943645264 Brand NewVCF . New. Princeton University Press/The Cornell Lab Publishing Group unknown‎

Bookseller reference : DTH-S-9781943645268 ISBN : 1943645264 9781943645268

‎Ornithology Cornell Lab of‎

‎Birder's Life List & Journal Cornell Lab of Ornithology‎

‎Princeton University Press/The Cornell Lab Publishing Group. PAPERBACK. 0691194718 . New. Princeton University Press/The Cornell Lab Publishing Group paperback‎

Bookseller reference : Z0691194718ZN ISBN : 0691194718 9780691194714

‎Ornithology Cornell Lab of‎

‎Birder's Life List & Journal Cornell Lab of Ornithology‎

‎Princeton University Press/The Cornell Lab Publishing Group. PAPERBACK. 0691194718 . New. Princeton University Press/The Cornell Lab Publishing Group paperback‎

Bookseller reference : Z0691194718ZN ISBN : 0691194718 9780691194714

‎Ornithology Committee of Dayton Audibon Society‎

‎Birds of Dayton‎

‎Dayton Audibon Society. Paperback. VERY GOOD. Light rubbing wear to cover spine and page edges. Very minimal writing or notations in margins not affecting the text. Possible clean ex-library copy with their stickers and or stamps. Dayton Audibon Society paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 3198518501 ISBN : 091342854X 9780913428542

‎Ornithology Michaelis H. von‎

‎Birds of the Gauntlet‎

‎London: Hutchinson 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Hardbound quarto in dustwrapper. 223 pp. With a foreword by The Marquess of Willingdon and an introduction by H. V. Morton. With numerous drawings and plates by the noted South African artist Michaelis. Book states First Published 1952. A handsome very good copy in lightly used price-intact dustwrapper. A somewhat large and heavy volume. <br/><br/> Hutchinson hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 27796

‎Ornithology THAYER Evelyn & Virginia KEYES comps..‎

‎Catalogue of a Collection of Books on Ornithology in the Library of John E. Thayer.‎

‎Boston:: Privately Printed 1913. 1913. First printing. 8vo. 186 addenda 1 pp. Early half dark blue morocco with marbled paper sides gilt-stamped spine title with raised bands t.e.g.; outer front spine hinge badly gnawed still tightly bound. Good. Privately Printed, 1913. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : Z1527

‎Ornithology Denmark Bird Song Recordings‎

‎Danmarks Fugle Under Redaktion Af Finn Salomonsen Og Gustaf Rudebeck Volumes 1 - 16 with Danske Fuglestemmer Titlrettelaegning Og Lydoptagelser Sten Wahlstrom Bird song Record albums‎

‎Kobenhavn: Branner Og Korch 1962. 'Danmarks Fugle' with 692 pages consecutively paginated bound in the original 16 parts each in its own illustrated wrapper with cumulative index at back of last volume; color plates black and white drawings distribution maps more; Danish text throughout; approx. 8" x 11 1/2" size bound in blue paper illustrated wraps side sewn; with 'Danske Fuglestemmer' 15 45 rpm records two-sided with recordings of various bird-songs of Denmark; each in its own illustrated stiff-paper sleeve with text on back describing each song and keyed to the text via a numbering system complete; the records all in very good visible condition some sleeves unopened records have not been played by us; some edge tips wear and rubbing to covers of texts and records; overall very clean and all in very good condition; previous owner had kept these in a slipcase titled accordingly and also included. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Branner Og Korch Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 23026

‎Ornithologie‎

‎Die Ornis Siebenb�rgens. Beitr�ge zu einer Monographie der Vogelwelt dieses Landes. Aus dem Nachla� herausgegeben von Heinz Heltmann Werner Klemm und Ernst Sch�z. Band I.‎

‎K�ln/Wien B�hlau 1980. . 8� XVII 454 S. mit Titelportrait und 11 Karten. OLn. K�ln/Wien, B�hlau, 1980. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 3185

‎ORNITHOLOGY. COLOR PLATE BOOKS. MEŸER HENRY LEONARD‎

‎ILLUSTRATIONS OF BRITISH BIRDS‎

‎London: Longman & Co 1837-44. FIRST EDITION. 372 x 270 mm. 14 5/8 x 10 5/8". Four volumes. FIRST EDITION. VERY FINE CONTEMPORARY EMERALD GREEN MOROCCO GILT covers framed in the Romantic style with multiple plain and decorative gilt rules and foliate rolls in gilt and in blind raised bands spine compartments densely gilt with fleuron centerpieces surrounded by swirling foliage gilt titling gilt-ruled turn-ins pale yellow embossed endpapers leather hinges all edges gilt. WITH 319 HAND-COLORED PLATES: 313 as called for in the contents lists plus one additional plate each of the heron and the blackbird and four of five plates depicting eggs all with original tissue guards. Mullens and Swann pp. 402-03; Wood p. 462 Spines uniformly sunned to a soft olive green a couple of boards with small spots of mild chafing extremities a little rubbed isolated mild foxing but A LOVELY COPY the plates clean fresh and bright with vivid coloring and the handsomely decorated bindings with only trivial wear. Published in 78 parts under the special patronage of King William Queen Adelaide and the Duchess of Kent this is a most desirable issue of one of the most valuable illustrated works on British ornithology. Wood describes it as "the finest and most complete atlas of portraits of British avifauna with their eggs ever published." It is is also a work with an extremely complicated bibliographical history. Ours is the standard first edition which was planned to have 313 plates of birds and five separate egg plates; the latter were discontinued after only five were published. As a result a few early copies contain 318 plates while others have only the 313 bird plates. The present copy has four of the five plates of eggs called for lacking the Woodcock and Guillemot egg plate and has two additional plates illustrating the heron and the blackbird included from the third edition which was being prepared for publication at the same time the issues of the first edition were being released. Many first editions received these bonus plates by mistake. All plates are lettered with both the common and the contemporary scientific name of the bird along with a couple of lines about its size habitat and diet. The illustrations were drawn from nature by Meÿer and his wife--some from living subjects kept by the artist--and were professionally hand colored. Mary Anne Meÿer was an accomplished artist who created many of the original drawings whilst her husband a professional lithographer drew the plates on the stones; this accounts for only his signature appearing on the completed plates. Born in Amsterdam Meÿer d. 1864 came to England in 1806 after Napoleon made his own brother Louis king of Holland. He married Mary Anne Moor in 1830 and they set up house in Surrey where Meÿer pursued his twin passions as an artist and a naturalist. This copy has superb impressions of all the plates the quality of some deteriorated in the later issues and outstanding hand coloring. In terms of convincing and beautiful illustrations the book holds its own with other famous ornithological publications no matter their language; it is not a rare book but a copy like the present one--especially well-preserved with bright beautiful plates and a handsome binding--is quite difficult to find. We are very grateful to Professor W. G. Hale for his assistance with this description and with the complex bibliographical history. Longman & Co unknown‎

Bookseller reference : ST15464

‎Ornithology Coues Eliott‎

‎Key to North American Birds. The Fourth Edition‎

‎Boston: Estes and Lauriat 1894. Fourth Edition. Profusely illustrated with a chromolithographic frontispiece and numerous black-and-white illustrations throughout the text. 1 vols. 8vo. Title page partially detached minor offsetting from frontispiece. Full blue cloth gilt. Rubbing to extremities hinges cracking. Fourth Edition. Profusely illustrated with a chromolithographic frontispiece and numerous black-and-white illustrations throughout the text. 1 vols. 8vo. "A justly popular work which . . . appeared in five editions. Written in an easy style with scientific accuracy the book soon became a standard work of reference useful alike to the scientist and to the layman" Ayer. Elliott Coues 1842-1899 became interested in natural history in particular ornithology when his family moved from New Hampshire to Washington D. C. Coues became aquainted with the Smithsonian Institution and its collections which fed his interests in natural history. As an assistant surgeon in the Army during the Civil War Coues "collected studied and published extensively on birds during his peripatetic military assignments" DSB at various forts in Arizona North Carolina and in the Dakota Territory. Later he served as naturalist for the Northen Boundary Commission 1873-1876 and for the Hayden survey in the ensuing four years. He was professor of anatomy at Columbian College now George Washington University from 1877 to 1886 and was editor of natural history subjects for the "Century Dictionary." He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences among numerous other societies and was a founder of the American Ornithologists' Union an early conservation group. Coues published some very well-received innovative tracts on birds with "Key to North American Birds" and "Check-List of North American Birds." "A distinctive feature of the "Check-List" was Coues's corrections in the orthography and pronunciation of original scientific names . . . He was a leader in the trend of his era toward reducing the great number of species names to varieties especially in local forms" DSB. He was considered a "lucid writer with a charming style second only and successor to Spencer F. Baird his mentor in ornithology Coues presented a great deal of information on the behavior and life histories of birds" DSB. Late in life he checked and annotated manuscripts of various American western exploration most notably the journals of Lewis and Clark and of Zebulon Pike. "In his meticulous fashion he retraced the explorers' routes and enlarged considerably upon their natural history observations" DSB. Ayer p. 143 first edition <br/><br/> Estes and Lauriat hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 12292

‎ORNITHOLOGY PRINT PRETRE Jean Gabriel‎

‎Le Merle Catbird. Turdus felivox‎

‎Engraving printed in color and retouched by hand 11 7/8 x 9 inches plate marks on a larger sheet. Plate 67 in Vieillot's Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de l'Amerique septentrionale Paris 1807. Anker Bird Books 515: "The plates Pretre pinxt. are engravings printed in colour Bouquet sculpt. Langlois imp. and retouched by hand." A little foxed mostly in margins but with attractive coloring. <br/><br/> unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 50578

‎ORNITHOLOGY. COLOR PLATE BOOKS. GOULD JOHN‎

‎MONOGRAPH OF THE PITTIDAE‎

‎London: Published by the Author 1880-1. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 565 x 390 mm. 22 1/4 x 15 3/8". Part I with text and plates; part II with text only all published. Two parts in one volume. Part II edited by Richard Bowdler Sharpe. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Pleasing green three-quarter crushed morocco over green cloth boards raised bands spine compartments with gilt lettering and tools. WITH 10 BEAUTIFUL HAND-COLORED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES. With original blue upper wrapper to each part bound in. Sitwell "Fine Bird Books" p. 102; Zimmer p. 263. Lower cover with a few negligible scratches and a light stain or two original wrappers with a faint crease down the middle plates with just a touch of toning around the edges but A REALLY EXCELLENT COPY ENTIRELY FRESH AND CLEAN. This brief but very pleasing work was John Gould's final publication before his death in 1881. It was originally conceived as a four-part series but only Part I was completed in its entirety; Part II containing just text was published shortly after Gould's death by his friend and fellow ornithologist R. Bowdler Sharpe who also acted as editor. According to the nota bene on the wrapper for Part I the illustrations found here were "principally taken from the Author's works on 'Birds of Asia' 'Australia' and 'New Guinea.'" As these sources suggest the pittidae a family of small tropical birds are found almost entirely in the aforementioned regions. The males of the species are known to possess a great range of colorful plumage--from the somber Black Ground-Thrush to the jewel-like and aptly named Necklaced Pitta--an attribute played up to great effect in the excellent coloring of the plates. The hand-colored lithographs seen here and in most of Gould's work from the 1830's on were a special point of pride for the scientist. According to DNB "the design and natural arrangement of the birds on the plates was due to the genius of John Gould and a Gould plate has a distinctive beauty and quality." Although he did not create the actual lithographs himself he did create preliminary sketches upon which the plates were ultimately based. He was also intimately involved with the publication process from start to finish including acting as agent and distributor of his own work. As a scientist Gould 1804-81 is perhaps the most recognizable name in ornithology after Audubon. Published by the Author unknown‎

Bookseller reference : STCNi1601

‎ORNITHOLOGY‎

‎Natural history of birds; containing a familiar survey of the feathered creation for the amusement and instruction of youth‎

‎London: Printed for John Chappell c.1820. 40pp. With a hand-coloured woodcut frontispiece and 14 woodcut illustrations in the text. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers. Some marking and slight chipping to extremities. Internally clean and crisp. Apparently the 'Colored One Shilling' as opposed to the 'Sixpence Plain' issue of this anonymous juvenile companion to British and foreign birds the cuts for which have long albeit erroneously attributed to Thomas Bewick. 14 species are represented including the eagle peacock falcon and pelican. . 12mo. Printed for John Chappell unknown‎

Bookseller reference : AQ14912