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réf. 83331882. Alnwick: Printed by C. E. Moore. 12mo 11 pp. Stitched and unbound. First and last leaves loose otherwise in fair condition on lightly-aged paper with grubby title. The section of 'Eggs of the Farne Islands' consists of fifteen entries on pp.8-9 from '1. Eider or St. Cuthbert's Duck Somateria mollissima' to '15. Rock Pipit Anthus aquaticus Case of Puffins and Young.' This section is followed by a curious 'Miscellaneous Collection' including 'Ivy Leaves from Thorwaldsen's Grave Copenhagen' 'Cegars from Coomassie Ashantee 1874' and ' "A Duel" made from the claws etc. of Crayfish Astacus fluviatilus at Strasbourg 26th July 1879 and given to exhibitor'. Item 30 is a ' "Knuckle Duster" ' first recorded use of the term. Final section includes oil paintings by T. H. Gibb Percy Forster and F. Melville. The only copy on COPAC at Newcastle. See Image. 1882. Alnwick: Printed by C. E. Moore. unknown
réf. 317331999 OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. 1ST EDITION. FINE COPY IN LAMINATED BOARDS BUT WITH A COUPLE OF VERY SMALL BUMPS. ILLUSTRATIONS BY ALAN PEARSON.A SCARCE BOOK. 1999, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS hardcover
1994réf. 002514Academic Press 1994. Very good. Pictorial boards. Folio 325 x 240mm 225 pages. Colour photos drawings. Book condition: Very good clean pictorial boards not faded firm binding no inscriptions very minor rubbing to upper rear cover. Comments: A comprehensive and detailed guide to moult strategies and sequences of 58 European Passerine species. It also includes moult profiles statistics and illustrations of variation within species; of value to ringers. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Pictorial Boards. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Academic Press hardcover
réf. 44935SUFFOLK WILDLIFE ART GALLERY 1988. A FINE HARDBACK COPY IN A FINE DUSTWRAP. A PRIVATE VIEW OF BRITAIN`S BEST-LOVED BIRD ARTIST. SCARCE. LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES THIS BEING NUMBER 442. A SIGNED COPY. SUFFOLK, WILDLIFE ART GALLERY, 1988 hardcover
réf. 42084SUFFOLK WILDLIFE ART GALLERY 1988. A FINE HARDBACK COPY IN A FINE DUSTWRAP. A PRIVATE VIEW OF BRITAIN`S BEST-LOVED BIRD ARTIST. SCARCE. LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES THIS BEING NUMBER 462. A SIGNED COPY. SUFFOLK, WILDLIFE ART GALLERY, 1988 hardcover
réf. 31655LONDON. BROWN 1907. TWO VOLUMES FIRST EDITION ORIGINAL GREEN CLOTH. SLIGHT WEAR TO TOP OF SPINES FOXING TO PRELIMS. ONLY. A VERY GOOD SET. BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES. LONDON. BROWN, 1907 hardcover
réf. 31214to. Pp. 194. Original cloth leather label on spine gilt titles on spine and top board with a black & white photograph pasted-on. The cloth is showing signs of use and shelfwear. There is some occasional faint spotting to the text pages. With 21 mounted photographs on heavy tinted paper and 65 illustrations in the text all by the author. Nicholl was at the Royal Naval College Osborne House and wrote the work to interest Osborne cadets in the bird life around the Isle of Wight. Newport, 1916 hardcover
1992réf. 001898Fountain Press 1992. Very Good/Good. 4to. 260 x 260mm 158 pages. Excellent colour photos. Book condition: Very good clean black boards tight binding no inscriptions. Jacket condition: Good clean bright slight fade near spine not creased not price-clipped will be protected in removable clear sleeving prior to sale. Comments: Volume One of the noted 'Wildlife Photographer' series this being first published in 1992. A rare chance to acquire the very first 'Portfolio'!!. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Fountain Press Hardcover
1894réf. 036187London: Gurney & Jackson 1894. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp. 92 4. Green cloth binding very good. Contents clean and tight original pale yelllow coated endpapers no inscriptions. A very good first edition copy the best we have seen. Bibliographic note: the last four pages are the publisher's catalogue which lists various books on birds and natural history published by Gurney & Jackson arranged under the titles "Books of Local Observation on Birds" "Other Books about Birds" An Illustrated Manual of British Birds by Howard Saunders" and "Standard Works on British Natural History". Gurney & Jackson Hardcover
1972réf. 028496London: H. F. G. Witherby 1972. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. pp. xvi 407; frontispiece plate 12 further pages of plates from photographs 23 images and 3 coloured plates from paintings; sketch map. Original dust jacket fine minimal rubbing to edges spine bright price-clipped now attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Hard-back binding fine. Contents clean and tight no inscription unmarked. A fine copy. H. F. G. Witherby Hardcover
réf. 44336CHELMSFORD ARLEQUIN PRESS 1994. QUARTO. A FINE COPY IN A FINE DUSTWRAP. LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES THIS BEING NUMBER 776. VERY WELL ILLUSTRATED. CHELMSFORD, ARLEQUIN PRESS, 1994 unknown
1775réf. 038937London: Philosophical Transactions 1683-1775 1775. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. A New Edition. 8vo. Letter 1 of the House-Swallow Pp 258-276 ; Original extract carefully bound with cloth spine and boards title label to the front board near fine. Contents clean and tight very light foxing to the first and last endpaper no inscriptions or other marks. A very good copy of this extract Letter 1 of the House-Swallow. Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775) Hardcover
1968réf. r8948acLondon: Country Life Books. VG : in very good condition with rubbed slipcase. Covers coverlon covered. 1968. First Edition. Brown/gilt hardback cloth cover in slip case. 290mm x 220mm 11" x 9". 945pp. Numerous plates and maps. Heavy set extra shipping needed for overseas. . Country Life Books hardcover
1946réf. 5269acLondon: H F & G Witherby Ltd. VG : in very good condition without dust jackets. Covers rubbed. Slight foxing. 1946. Fourth impression. Blue hardback cloth cover. 230mm x 160mm 9" x 6". xl 326pp; xiii 352pp; x 387pp; xiv 461pp; xii 381pp plates. 147 plates 126 in colour. Heavy book extra shipping needed for overseas. . H F & G Witherby Ltd hardcover
200082 pages. Features: Embodying Cosmic Patterns - Foundations of an Art of Calligraphy in China; Silencing the Cry of Cold Insects - Meaning and Design in the Exile Calligraphy of Huang Tingjian and Su Shi; The Early Aesthetic Values of Writing and Calligraphy; Tradition and Authorial Identity in Chinese Calligraphy - Three Works from the Elliott Collection; Private Lives - Public Faces - Relics of Calligraphy by Zhao Mengfu, Guan Daosheng and Their Children; Severed Heads - Demarcating Conceptual Space in Mughal Painting; The Symbolism of Flowers and Birds in Chinese Painting; An Repositioning of a Medieval Painting Monument - the Ten Kings at the Seikado Library; and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy of this beautiful issue. Book
188616 pages. Contents: Ascot Toilettes - cover illustrations; Between Husband and Wife; Women and Men - who shall fix the value?; Family Living on $500 a Year - XXXIV; New York Fashions - autumn dress goods, pin-striped woollens, braid stripes, pomponettes, beaded corded and velvet stripes, plain wools and black stuffs, silk velvets, plaids and cross-bars, cloakings, dress trimmings; Personal; British Water Birds - illustration; British Land Birds - illustration; Open-air preaching by the sea-side - article and super centerfold illustration; The Woodlanders - continued; Paston Carew, Millionaire and Miserj - continued; Summer Beverages; A Lover of Flowers, by Mary Wilkins; Decorative hints from Mount Desert and the Adirondacks; Unwritten Laws; Quiet Obsequies; Watering-place Toilettes; Table Mat - canvas embroidery and plush; a bit of ancient court gossip; chair back with embroidered band; summer toilettes; corsages; some German sweetmeats; humor. Average wear and soiling Book
187016 pages. Contents: Ball and Evening Coiffures - cover illustrations; Shabby Gentility; Blot-Ting Papers - No. VIII; New York Fashions - style of making, ball dress materials, trimmings; coiffures; Personal; Infant's bib with crochet edging; trimmings for ball and evening dresses; Pelerine with hood; Britta's Christmas Gift; Sayings and Doings; Centerfold illustrations of Ball and Evening Dresses as well as seven gorgeous opera wrappings; Debenham's Vow - continued; Paris Fashions; Lovely full-page image of birds eating grain from "The Christmas Sheaf"; Two coiffures of ribbon and flowers; Low Blouse waist with peplum; blouse waist with sqauare neck; Management of plants in rooms; humor; and more. Average wear. Book
1969168 pages. Features: Acute respiratory failure; Amorphous-semiconductor switching; Magnetic recording; Non-Euclidean Geometry before Euclid; The Origin of the Oceanic Ridges; The Receptor site for a Bacterial Virus; How Birds Sing. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
197141 pages. In 1971 these recipes using local foods were collected from fourteen native communities in B.C. Because most of the communities were coastal or near salmon streams, the majority of the foods are from the sea, but there are also recipes for wild meats, bannock and tea. By popular demand, the list was compiled into this book. Topics include: Smoked Salmon; Barbecued Salmon; Canning Salmon; Eulachons; Steelhead; Halibut; Shellfish and Sea Animals; Octopus; Sea Animals; Sea Lion; Game Animals; Wild Birds; Wild Plants; Fruits and Berries; Bannock; Fats and Oils; Teas; Seaweed; Pit Cooking; Barnacles; Deer and Moose; Tree Bark; and much more. Oblong 11"x8.5". Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this amazing reference. Book
1932réf. 014774Boulogne André Bloc 1932 In-4 spirale
1879réf. 198552Halle, Selbstverlag des Vereins, 1879. M. einigen Abb. IV, 200 S. Pp. Einbd. berieben u. bestoßen. Rücken leicht beschäd. Name a. Vorsatz. St. verso Tit.
1846réf. 022651Paris Au bureau de la librairie historique 1846 un volume grand in-8°, XXIII 312 pp. Cartonnage romantique en percaline violette chagrinée, décor doré à la plaque et filets estampés à froid sur les plats, dos titré et constitué de grands fers romantiques or, tranches dorées, gardes jaunes d'origine. (dos éclairci, volume légèrement frotté et légèrement sali aux plats, les planches sont légèrement brunies de manière homogène, présence de quelques rousseurs sur la gouttière et atteignant parfois les feuillets de texte, un cahier détaché en partie). Édition illustrée d'un beau portrait en frontispice de Buffon par Emile Giroux et de 38 planches représentant 150 espèces d'oiseaux dessinées par Victor ADAM. Exemplaire aux coloris frais. Charmante édition romantique.
1851réf. 139573Administration de la librairie Paris, Administration de la Librairie, 1851. In-8 relié demi-basane rouge de 476 + 424 pages ornées de 21 planches couleurs hors-texte. Revu par M. A. Richard avec la classification comparée de Cuvier, Lesson et des extraits de Daubenton. Taches angulaire sombre sur les premiers feuillets sans atteinte aux planches.
1851Paris, Administration de la Librairie 1851. In-8 relié demi-basane rouge, de 476 + 424 pages ornées de 21 planches couleurs hors-texte. Revu par M. A. Richard avec la classification comparée de Cuvier, Lesson et des extraits de Daubenton. Taches angulaire sombre sur les premiers feuillets sans atteinte aux planches.
1772réf. 188368Paris, Impr. Royale, 1772. Kl.-8°. M. gest. Tit.-Vign. u. 9 Kpfr.-Taf. 3 Bl., 417 S. Ppbd. d. Zt. Etwas berieben u. bestoßen. Gebräunt, teils braunfl. Name von alter Hd. a. Tit. (Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi 13).
