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Best.-Nr. Bo Ekberg and Lennart NilJacket not in perfect condition but book is in pristine condiion. unknown
Best.-Nr. 239891890 HARRISBURG USA. VERY GOOD COPY IN BLUE SLIGHTLY WORN BOARDS. WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE FOOD-HABITS BASED ON OVER FOUR THOUSAND STOMACH EXAMINATIONS. SECOND EDITION REVISED AND AUGMENTED AND ILLUSTRATED BY ONE HUNDRED COLOUR PLATES FROM AUDUBON. 1890 HARRISBURG, USA hardcover
1991Best.-Nr. h1381Auckland: Osborne Editions. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket as issued. 1991. Limited Edition. Un-numbered/2000. Black hardback half-leather cover with dark green velvet boards. 410mm x 310mm 16" x 12". 215pp. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . Osborne Editions hardcover
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1959Best.-Nr. 035373London: British Ornithologist's Union 1959. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo 18 x 25.5 cm. Uniformally bound in the publisher's bright red cloth binding gilt vignette of an Ibis to the front board with some blind stamped detail. Bindings are unmarked with bright gilt lettering to the spines corners are a little bumped/rounded binding firm. Contents clean and tight endpapers unmarked no foxing. A great deal of interesting article photographic plates and charts within. A clean and little read run of eight volumes 1959 to 1964 inclusive. Haevy set to a little surcharge may be required to cover the cost of using a courier service please enquire for more details. British Ornithologist's Union Hardcover
2018Best.-Nr. 0K-ELOV-EF0Y2018. Hardcover. 2018 Sweet & Maxwell hardcover 14th edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. hardcover
1959Best.-Nr. 035375London: British Ornithologist's Union 1959. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo 18 x 25.5 cm. Uniformally bound in the publisher's bright red cloth binding gilt vignette of an Ibis to the front board with some blind stamped detail. Bindings have some signs of silverfish damage to the surface of the cloth on the spines bright gilt lettering to the spines corners are a little bumped/rounded binding firm. Contents clean and tight a few spots to endpapers of volume 102 only otherwise unmarked. A great deal of interesting article photographic plates and charts within. A clean run of nine volumes 1959 to 1967 inclusive. Heavy set so a little surcharge may be required to cover the cost of using a courier service please enquire for more details. British Ornithologist's Union Hardcover
Best.-Nr. 33575LONDON MADGWICK HOULSTON & CO. LTD. 3 VOLUMES IN VERY GOOD CONDITION COMPLETE IN GREEN DECORATED BOARDS. EACH VOLUME HAS A PREVIOUS OWNER`S STICKER ON INSIDE FRONT BOARD. 36 ILLUSTRATIONS BY JAMES ANDREWS. VOLUME 2 HAS A PRINTED ADDRESS ON FEP. LONDON, MADGWICK, HOULSTON & CO., LTD., hardcover
Best.-Nr. 26449OXFORD PHAIDON 1980. 1ST EDITION. LIMITED TO 200 COPIES OF WHICH THIS IS NUMBER 16. SIGNED BY PETER SCOTT. FINE COPY QUARTO LEATHER OVER GREEN CLOTH WITH MATCHING SLIPCASE OXFORD, PHAIDON, 1980 hardcover
1993Best.-Nr. 039265Canada: Silvio Mattacchione and Co. 1993. Book. Illus. by Peake Eric. Fine. Hardcover. Limited Edition. Folio 24 x 35 cm. Subscriber's limited edition no. 626 of 2000. 380 pages. superb colour and black and white illustrations by Eric Peake. Original dust jacket fine. Hardback binding fine. Contents clean and tight. A fine copy. . Silvio Mattacchione and Co. Hardcover
Best.-Nr. 38045PETERBOROUGH LANGFORD PRESS 2009. 1ST EDITION. A FINE COPY IN GREEN MARBLED BOARDS AND HALF GREEN LEATHER OCTAVO. LIMITED TO 205 COPIES THIS BEING NUMBER 20 AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE. CONTAINED IN A GREEN SLIPCASE WHICH HAS SOME FADING. PETERBOROUGH, LANGFORD PRESS, 2009 hardcover
1893Best.-Nr. 037264London: Bemrose & Sons Limited 1893. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Authors. First Edition. 8vo. Inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper "The Editor 'Natural Sciences' With the Author's compliments Beeston Hall 11 April '93" pp. vi 239 frontispiece plate and fold out map five further plates very good corrigenda slip tipped in. Publisher's textured green cloth binding with gilt lettering very good with a little light wear. Contents clean and tight original patterned endpapers. A very good clean copy inscribed by the author. The Author Whitlock was convicted of embezzlement a wanted poster was published and eventually he was sentenced to 11 years in prison. Bemrose & Sons, Limited Hardcover
1893Best.-Nr. 036996London: Bemrose & Sons Limited 1893. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Authors. First Edition. 8vo. pp. vi 239 frontispiece plate and fold out map five further plates fine. Cloth binding very good with light rubbing this appears to be a slightly later binding. Contents clean and tight patterned endpapers original endpaper tipped in with James Fisher's signature and an inscription " from F. B. Whitlock Beeston Notts england 11 Dec. 1893" otherwise unmarked. A clean very good first edition. The Author Whitlock was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to 11 years in prison. Loosely inserted is a facsimile of the £100 reward poster. Bemrose & Sons, Limited Hardcover
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1872Best.-Nr. 038272London: 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
Best.-Nr. 37534EDINBURGH LIZARS 1837. FIRST EDITION TWO VOLUMES. VOLUMES 7 AND 8 OF JARDINE'S NATURAL HISTORY. WITH A TOTAL OF 64 HAND-COLOURED PLATES NUMEROUS WOODCUTS. FRONTIS. OF BRUCE WITH A MEMOIR. NICELY BOUND IN HALF RED LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARDS MARBLED ENDPAPERS T.E.G. MINOR WEAR TO TOP AND BOTTOM OF SPINES. FIRMLY BOUND AND VERY CLEAN. A HANDSOME COPY. UNCOMMON. EDINBURGH, LIZARS, 1837 hardcover
1981Best.-Nr. 14453NY: Abbeville Press. Fine. 1981. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Limited edition bound in green leather and signed by both authors. Slightest shelf rubbing lower left on the front. This will take extra postage; it is a large heavy book. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; Signed by Author . Abbeville Press hardcover
Best.-Nr. DADAX1555715508New unknown
Best.-Nr. 032374London : Caxton Publishing Company A good copy complete with 115 colour-printed plates in new quarter cloth binding with marbled boards. Undated but 1907/8. The plates by Henrik Gronvold and Frederick Frohawk are beautiful. The binding is 'as new' with new endpapers.Top page edges gilt remainder untrimmed. Contents - Vol I: 4 plates of eggs; title page; contents list; introduction; text with 56 plates; 210pp. Vol II: 4 plates of eggs; title page; contents; text with 51 plates; appendix; index 215pp. Text pages with some spotting particularly to top margins and light toning towards edges. Plates with tissue guards some of which are creased or with slight damage. Plates themselves clean and mostly not affected by spotting. Contents slight dusty smell on opening. Caxton Publishing Company hardcover
2013Best.-Nr. x-0415734517Routledge 2013. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 324 pages. 8.60x5.60x1.10 inches. Routledge hardcover
1904Best.-Nr. 036174London: R. H. Porter 1904. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. A bright and fresh copy; pp. xvi 216; fold out map present chromolithographic frontispiece plate of a Great Black backed gull's nest and numerous others. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering bevelled edges bright slight wear a couple of light scuff marks to spine. Top edge gilt. Contents clean and tight bookplate belonging to John Emerson Griffith to the front pastedown light toning a few marks on page margins and fore-edges plates and text clean. A very good copy of this scarce title. Peasrson also wrote " Beyond Petsora Eastward". Provenance - John Emerson Griffith; Oologist specialising in waders former editor of the Jourdain Society Bulletin he held a senior post for over 30 years. R. H. Porter Hardcover
1925Best.-Nr. 038642United Kingdom 1925. Drawing. Illus. by Leonard Brightwell. Near Fine. Framed. Signed by THE ARTIST. Original. Etching dry point on laid paper signed and titled by the artist one of Brightwell's finest works of animal art completed around 1925. Published in London by the British company "James Connell & Sons" in a run of one hundred impressions. Plate 305mm x 220mm. Paper is lightly cockled but otherwise fine and unmarked with a deep acid free fine mount. Black stained wooden frame in fine condition. Framed dimension 530mm x 440mm. A characterful and humorous work. Biography - Leonard Robert Brightwell London Born 1889 - 1962 An outstanding British etcher illustrator and author of animal subjects Leonard Robert Brightwell studied at the Lambeth School of Art London. Countless visits to the Zoological Gardens however provided his most important artistic education. Brightwell became a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London in 1906 and a member of the Marine Biological Association in 1922. During the first half of the twentieth century he was commissioned by these associations and other museums to make scientific drawings of various forms of life including extinct animals. Brightwell's first illustrated book A British Dog in France was published in 1913. During the First World War 1914-1918 he served in the British Army. After 1920 Brightwell established himself as a major illustrator and as an author. Books written and illustrated by him include A Cartoonist among Animals 1921 On the Seashore 1934 The Zoo You Knew 1936 Neptune's Garden 1937 The Dawn of Life 1938 The Garden Naturalist 1941 The Zoo Story 1952 and Down to the Sea 1954.His cartoons often appeared in the Punch Magazine. . unknown
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