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19654to., Second Impression, with very numerous plates and illustrations in the text, small neat personal book-label on front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Second impression of the standard reference first published in the previous year.
1981Oblong 4to., First Edition, with a coloured title-vignette and very numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations (the majority full-page) throughout; cloth, upper board blocked in brown, backstrip lettered in brown, brown endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19498vo., First Edition, with a title-vignette and illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; cloth, a very good, firm copy in unclipped and very lightly browned dustwrapper.
1979Oblong 4to., Second Impression, with a coloured title-vignette and very numerous fine coloured and monochrome illustrations throughout, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; cloth, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
1981Oblong 4to., First Edition thus, with numerous fine coloured and monochrome illustrations throughout; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. This edition published simultaneously with the Gollancz first edition
19698vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped and lightly frayed dustwrapper.
19568vo., First UK Edition, with a coloured frontispiece and 43 monochrome plates on 32; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in the USA in 1954. The UK edition is uncommon in this condition.
1929Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece and 22 coloured plates depicting many species per plate; original green cloth, upper board lettered in gilt and blocked in black, gilt back, a near fine copy. A beautiful copy of an important avifauna. Rare, especially in this condition.
1912Roy. 8vo., First Edition, All Published, with a double-page coloured map; strongly and attractively bound in dark green buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy. The sole text volume of a stupendous work truncated by the outbreak of WWI and the ensuing death of Brabourne. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
18728vo., First Edition, with an engraved frontispiece; original green cloth, sides with double frame border in blind, gilt back, uncut, black endpapers, a near fine copy. With a fine nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate on front paste-down, and errata leaf facing text. A beautiful copy of an important avifauna. Rare, especially in this condition. Freeman 817; Mullens & Swann, p.144.
195145 numbers, 8vo., First Edition with numerous photographs, diagrams and charts throughout; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a few stitches lightly rusting else a very good, bright, clean collection. The run comprises: 1951 (October, November), 1952 (May, June, August, September, Ocotber, November, December), 1953 (March, June, September, November, Index), 1954 (January, February, March, July, October, December, Index), 1955 (February, March, April, May, June, October), 1956 (January, February, March, April, October, November, Index), 1957 (January, April, May, June, July), 1958 (January, April, June, July), 1959 (January, March).
1951Roy. 4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 15 fine coloured plates and very numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, and endpaper maps; blue cloth, upper board blocked in blind and lettered in gilt, gilt back, covers unevenly sunned at head and tail of backstrip else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped but very worn dustwrapper, the latter with loss at upper edge of front panel (eliminating most of title) and upper edge of rear panel. Beautifully illustrated studies of seabirds and sailing. Scarce, especially in the dustwrapper.
19638vo., First Edition, with 16 plates, an illustration in the text and a folding map; cloth, gilt back, a sound, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter frayed at edges
1976Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, very numerous coloured illustrations in the text and endpaper maps; cloth, covers a trifle faded else a very good copy in the dustwrapper, the latter slightly tanned at backstrip. Very scarce; especially in the dustwrapper
19688vo., First Edition, with plates, faint tape marks on free endpapers; cloth, a very good copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. With a bookplate. The first comprehensive county avifauna since Smith in 1869. Tate praises it as ' a full and detailed systematic list'.
19798vo., First Edition, with 47 monochrome plates on 18 and very numerous illustrations, diagrams, maps and plans in the text; original series binding of green buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. New Naturalist, 62. Dustwrapper artwork by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis.
19638vo., First Edition, with plates, free endpapers and fore-edges very faintly spotted; green cloth, gilt back, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Nice copy of an important Sussex avifauna. 'A very complete annotated species list' (Tate). Tate, p.209.
19394to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 23 coloured plates, 64 plates in monochrome and several illustrations in the text, fore-edges lightly spotted; original cloth, gilt back, covers very lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy in lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. First Trade Edition, and scarce in this condition
19688vo., Fourth Edition thus, with 23 coloured plates of drawings by the author and numerous illustrations and maps in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter [only] lightly damp-marked. This seminal work, a true classic of modern ornithology, first appeared with black-and-white illustrations in the Second Annual Report of the [then] Severn Wildfowl Trust, 1948-49. It was reissued as a separate book in 1950 with a revised edition in 1951. This coloured version first appeared in 1957 and amounts to an entirely new publication. Substantial revisions have been made to the text and there has been further extensive revision in the light of the most recent taxonomic opinion. Yet further revision in included in the 1968 edition as here. The damp-marking is undeniable but far from offensive. The clothbound copy is very scarce, especially in the dustwrapper.
1979Oblong 4to., First Edition, with a coloured title-vignette and very numerous fine coloured and monochrome illustrations throughout; brown cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19978vo., First Edition, with coloured endpaper maps; blue cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
1899Sm. 8vo., Sole Trade (and Best) Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece and a plate, some minor foxing to endpapers, preliminaries and title only, neat signature on front free endpaper; cloth gilt, gilt back, uncut, a most attractive copy of a scarce Central Wales avifauna. The first publicly available avifauna of the county, being a substantially revised and enlarged edition of the author's first, privately printed, list. NOT RECORDED BY TATE
19778vo., First Edition, with 5 coloured plates on 4 and 28 monochrome plates on 20, inscription on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper.
1899Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with a frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and a plate, some minor foxing to endpapers preliminaries and title only; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. The first publicly available avifauna of the county, representing a substantially revised and enlarged edition of the author's first, privately printed, list of 1882. Not recorded by Tate.
19982 vols., 4to., First Edition thus, with titles in green, orange and black, many hundreds of coloured and monochrome illustrations and maps, and coloured endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper, the whole housed publisher's illustrated board slip-case. Based on the nine-volume Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. The set comprises: Vol. I: Non-Passerines; Vol. II: Passerines. Nice copy of a standard reference.
