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réf. 31583LONDON. CHRISTOPHER HELM. 1997. FIRST EDITION. VERY FINE IN LIKE CELLOPHANE PROTECTED DUSTWRAPPER. AN UNREAD BOOK. SCARCE. DEALS WITH THE STATUS AND DISTRIBUTION OF ALL 422 SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MAPS WITH 70 LINE DRAWINGS. LONDON. CHRISTOPHER HELM. 1997 unknown
réf. 264361994 LYNX EDITIONS BARCELONA. VERY FINE COPY IN VERY FINE DUSTWRAP. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED IN COLOUR AND WITH LINE DRAWINGS. 674 PAGES. 70 COLOUR PLATES. 236 PHOTOGRAPHS. 837 DISTRIBUTION MAPS. 13 FIGURES AND TABLES. C. 7000 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES. EXTRA POSTAGE WILL BE REQUIRED OUTSIDE THE U.K. 1994 LYNX EDITIONS, BARCELONA unknown
réf. 30401OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1988. FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD COPY IN VERY GOOD DUSTWRAP SLIGHTLY FADED SPINE. THE COMPREHENSIVE HANDBOOK. EXTRA POSTAGE WILL BE REQUIRED. OXFORD, UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1988 unknown
réf. 14279WORDSWORTH EDITIONS LTD. LONDON 1990. FOLIO FINE COPY IN FINE DUSTWRAP. THE COMPLETE RENOWNED ORIGINAL EDITION WITH THE 1861 SUPPLEMENT - 418 FULL-PAGE PLATES IN FULL COLOUR. WORDSWORTH EDITIONS, LTD. LONDON 1990 unknown
réf. 19371OLIVER AND BOYD. 1953-61. COMPLETE IN 12 VOLUMES. A NICE VERY CLEAN SET. ORIGINAL OLIVE GREEN CLOTH. GILT TITLES TO SPINES. NO DUSTWRAPPERS. ILLUSTRATED WITH MANY COLOUR PLATES BY GEORGE LODGE. ADDITIONAL POSTAGE REQUIRED. OLIVER AND BOYD. 1953-61 hardcover
1832réf. 039225Newcastle: Printed by Charles Henry Cook For R. E. Bewick 1832. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 8vo. A very good set finely bound in half dark green morocco with gilt lettering and gilt eagle motifs to the spines; boards pages edges and end papers in matching red marbling. Volumes subtitles as follows: vol. I: "Containing the History and Description of Land Birds"; vol. II: "Containing the History and Description of Water Birds"; pp. vol. I: xl 386 2; volume II: xxii 424 2. Volume II includes the "appendix" on Foreign birds. Bindings very good and strong. Contents clean and tight light spotting to front blanks less so to title page otherwise minimal marking. A near fine set. Printed by Charles Henry Cook, For R. E. Bewick Hardcover
1959réf. 039233Stockholm: Nordisk Rotogravyr 1959. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 132 pages double-folding frontispiece colour and black and white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket rubbed to edges and a little discoloured. Hardback binding very good and bright contents clean and tight no inscriptions. A rare title showcasing the extraordinary artistic talent of the artist-author renowned for his bird drawings. Sten Regnell 1926-2006 was a Swedish artist illustrator writer and engineer. Known primarily for his detailed nature and wildlife studies he combined a professional career in marine engineering with a highly prolific artistic life frequently creating precise atmospheric graphite and charcoal drawings of birds and landscapes. Nordisk Rotogravyr Hardcover
2009réf. 039227Peterborough: Langford Press 2009. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. Small Folio. The deluxe limited edition this copied numbered 123 of 205 and signed by the author. Bound in half burgundy morocco leather with marbled paper boards; burgundy cloth slipcase. Pp. ix 204. The definitive guide to the prints and proofs of Archibald Thorburn. A fine copy. Langford Press Hardcover
réf. 039200Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1947. Book. Illus. by Roger Tory Peterson. Very Good. Hardback. Signed by Authors. Second Revised Edition. 8vo. An important association copy of this important groundbreaking book the first of the field guides. This is the 1947 Second Revised and Enlarged Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author to the naturalist and author Bruce Campbell on the title page. "To Bruce Campbell with my best regards Roger Tory Peterson" Bruce Campbell has also signed his name to the title and half-title pages. 290 pages colour plates throughout decorative end papers. Cloth binding very good with a little general wear lettering faded to the spine. Contents clean and tight. A very good signed association copy. Houghton Mifflin Company Hardcover
1931réf. 039246Harrow: On Sale at The School Bookshop 1931. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. Royal 8vo. Inscribed and signed to the front end paper by the author "with compliments of Tom Harrisson". 43 pages. Binding very good contents clean and tight. A very good signed copy. On Sale at The School Bookshop Hardcover
1869réf. 039218London: Griffith and Farran 1869. Book. Good. Hardcover. Large 8vo. No date but 1869; pp. iv 141. With illustrations by Harrison Weir: black and white plates engraved by J. Greenaway Kate Greenaway's Father. Original red cloth binding with black and gilt and decoration gilt lettering; a little general wear and rubbing. Contents clean and tight neat presentation inscription to the verso of the front free end paper dated April 1872. Original brown end papers. A very good copy with 24 delightful plates by Harrison Weir. Griffith and Farran Hardcover
1973réf. 039263Melbourne: Lansdowne Press 1973. Book. Illus. by William T. Cooper. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio - Landscape 27.5 x 39.5cm. 584 pages. Almost 500 coloured plates by William T. Cooper; numerous b/w. illustrations and maps. Original dust jacket near fine a little dust marked on the inside only. Hardback binding near fine very slightly marked. Contents clean and tight no inscriptions; a little dust marking to the top edge. A near fine copy. Bibliographic note: this work was reprinted several times but in much smaller format than this sumptuous first edition. Please note this is a very large heavy book 4.8kg and a small postal surcharge may apply. Lansdowne Press Hardcover
1898réf. 039256London: Hutchinson & Co. 1898. Book. Illus. by Thorburn Archibald. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp. 261 2 with a b/w frontispiece by Archibald Thorburn; Original green cloth with gilt lettering very good. Contents clean and tight bookplate of R. A. H. Coombes to the front endpaper end papers toned no inscriptions. A very good first edition copy. Hutchinson & Co. Hardcover
1993réf. 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
1990réf. 039293London: Academic Press 1990. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. Large 8vo. pp. viii 440; b/w illustrations and maps throughout. Laminated boards fine unfaded unmarked. Contents clean and tight no inscriptions. A fine to fine copy. Academic Press Hardcover
1895réf. 039259London: Horace Cox 1895. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. "With a Preface by Frank E. Beddard." 319 paes. Original green cloth binding with gilt lettering and vignette of gulls to the front board bevelled edges; very good. Contents clean and tight no inscriptions light spotting to few pages original patterned end papers. A very good to fine copy. Scarce. In three parts; part I Notes from the Zoo; part II Birds in London where 14 native species are examined "being the result of personal observations."; part III Appendix includes The Farne Islands etc. Mullens & Swann p. 589. Horace Cox Hardcover
1989réf. 039264Canada: Silvio Mattacchione and Co. 1989. Book. Illus. by Bennish Gracia. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author & Illustrator. Limited Edition. Folio 24 x 35 cm. Subscriber's edition signed to the title page by the author and illustrator. 356 pages. superb colour and black and white illustrations by Gracia Bennish; distribution maps to the rear. Original dust jacket fine. Hardback binding fine. Contents clean and tight carefully signed to the title page by the author and illustrator. The limitation number line has been left blank. A fine copy. . Silvio Mattacchione and Co. Hardcover
1912réf. 039317London: Gurney and Jackson 1912. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Small 4to 16 x 23cm. Pp. vol. I: xvi 324; fine frontispiece plate in photogravure photographic plate and 7 maps and charts; vol. II: viii 347; 16 pages of plates from photographs. Bound in original sage green buckram cloth with gilt lettering to the spines; very good and bright no fading slight rubbing to edges. Contents clean and tight top edges gilt endpapers clean owners name neat in ink to the front free endpaper internally very clean without foxing. A very good set. Gurney and Jackson Hardcover
1903réf. 039316London: John C. Nimmo Ltd. 1903. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Fifth Edition. 4to. 6 volumes. "Fifth edition revised and brought up to date with an appendix of recently added species and with four hundred plates specially corrected for this edition and all coloured by hand." These six volumes contain a total of 400 exquisite hand-coloured plates. Publisher's textured green cloth bindings with gilt lettering and gilt vignette of an eagle to the spine and each with a different bird vignette to the front boards; good but mottled to the front boards please see images a little rubbing to edges and slightly marked. Contents clean and tight original green coated endpapers front blanks with a few spots internal pages very clean and unmarked plates clean with bright colours. A very good complete set. John C. Nimmo, Ltd. Hardcover
1981réf. 096262Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press 1981. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition first printing. Large octavo. Hardback. 492 pages Very Good condition No dust jacket. Previous owner's has been blacked out on front end paper small mark Princeton University Press hardcover
1979réf. 096252London: Kestrel Books 1979. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Pauling Baynes. First edition first printing. Large octavo. Hardback. 320 pages colour and Black and white illustrations. Very Good condition in Very Good price-clipped dust jacket. No inscriptions. Kestrel Books hardcover
1948réf. 039182London: Collins 1948. Book. Illus. by G. E. Lodge and H. Gronvold. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo. Association copy with a loosely inserted typed letter to A. W. Boyd signed from R. J. Politzer on Collins headed paper and signed 28th July 1948. The front free end paper is inscribed in James Fisher's Hand "James Fisher's copy." James Fisher the renowned naturalist writer and broadcaster was A. W. Boyd's nephew and inherited many of his uncle's books. He wrote an introduction to this book. Dust jacket good/very good with a little general wear a few nicks to edges lightly marked some fading to the spine now protected in a clear archival sleeve. A very good association copy. "With an Introduction by Julian Huxely and James Fisher and illustrations by G. E. Lodge and H. Gronvold". . Collins Hardcover
2025réf. 039146Suffolk : Benton Street Books in association with The Wildlife Gallery 2025. Book. Illus. by Eric Ennion. New. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. Limited to 750 copies. pp. 72 colour frontispiece and numerous colour plates and illustrations superbly printed by The Lavenham Press Ltd. A Tenerife Diary focuses on Eric Ennion's trip to the island in the winter of 1961. Eric's writing is complemented by is distinctive and stylish artwork. This is one of four books edited by Bob Walthew. Eric Arnold Roberts Ennion 1900 - 1981 A British artist writer illustrator and radio presenter specialising in birds and other natural history subjects. Born 7th June 1900 at Kettering in Northamptonshire the son of a country doctor. In 1904 the family moved to Burwell on the edge of the Cambridgeshire fens where after studying medicine at Caius College and St Mary's Hospital he joined his father's practice in 1926.He held his first London one-man show of sporting pictures at the Greatorex Galleries in 1937. At the end of the war he became warden of the Field Studies Centre at Flatford Mill in Suffolk. After five years at Flatford he and his wife Dorothy established their own Field Centre and Bird Observatory at Monks' House in Northumberland. In 1961 they 'retired' to Shalbourne in Wiltshire. There Eric ran his own private courses on landscape and wildlife painting and continued to paint lecture and teach natural history until his death in 1981. A great champion of wildlife art he exhibited his own work widely and was especially keen to encourage young artists. He was the author of twelve books including the posthumously published Bird Man's River illustrating all but one of them himself and the illustrator of a similar number by other authors. Ennion was a founder member and Honorary Vice President of the Society of Wildlife Artists. Widely exhibited at the Greatorex Galleries Arthur Ackermann & Son Ltd West Mills Gallery and snapped up at auctions today. Benton Street Books in association with The Wildlife Gallery Hardcover
2025réf. 039147Suffolk : Benton Street Books in association with The Wildlife Gallery 2025. Book. Illus. by Eric Ennion. New. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. Limited to 750 copies. pp. 72 colour frontispiece and numerous colour plates and illustrations superbly printed by The Lavenham Press Ltd. A Tenerife Diary focuses on Eric Ennion's trip to the island in the winter of 1961. Eric's writing is complemented by is distinctive and stylish artwork. This is one of four books edited by Bob Walthew. Eric Arnold Roberts Ennion 1900 - 1981 A British artist writer illustrator and radio presenter specialising in birds and other natural history subjects. Born 7th June 1900 at Kettering in Northamptonshire the son of a country doctor. In 1904 the family moved to Burwell on the edge of the Cambridgeshire fens where after studying medicine at Caius College and St Mary's Hospital he joined his father's practice in 1926.He held his first London one-man show of sporting pictures at the Greatorex Galleries in 1937. At the end of the war he became warden of the Field Studies Centre at Flatford Mill in Suffolk. After five years at Flatford he and his wife Dorothy established their own Field Centre and Bird Observatory at Monks' House in Northumberland. In 1961 they 'retired' to Shalbourne in Wiltshire. There Eric ran his own private courses on landscape and wildlife painting and continued to paint lecture and teach natural history until his death in 1981. A great champion of wildlife art he exhibited his own work widely and was especially keen to encourage young artists. He was the author of twelve books including the posthumously published Bird Man's River illustrating all but one of them himself and the illustrator of a similar number by other authors. Ennion was a founder member and Honorary Vice President of the Society of Wildlife Artists. Widely exhibited at the Greatorex Galleries Arthur Ackermann & Son Ltd West Mills Gallery and snapped up at auctions today. Benton Street Books in association with The Wildlife Gallery Hardcover
2025réf. 039148Suffolk : Benton Street Books in association with The Wildlife Gallery 2025. Book. Illus. by Eric Ennion. New. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. Limited to 750 copies. pp. 72 colour frontispiece and numerous colour plates and illustrations superbly printed by The Lavenham Press Ltd. A Tenerife Diary focuses on Eric Ennion's trip to the island in the winter of 1961. Eric's writing is complemented by is distinctive and stylish artwork. This is one of four books edited by Bob Walthew. Eric Arnold Roberts Ennion 1900 - 1981 A British artist writer illustrator and radio presenter specialising in birds and other natural history subjects. Born 7th June 1900 at Kettering in Northamptonshire the son of a country doctor. In 1904 the family moved to Burwell on the edge of the Cambridgeshire fens where after studying medicine at Caius College and St Mary's Hospital he joined his father's practice in 1926.He held his first London one-man show of sporting pictures at the Greatorex Galleries in 1937. At the end of the war he became warden of the Field Studies Centre at Flatford Mill in Suffolk. After five years at Flatford he and his wife Dorothy established their own Field Centre and Bird Observatory at Monks' House in Northumberland. In 1961 they 'retired' to Shalbourne in Wiltshire. There Eric ran his own private courses on landscape and wildlife painting and continued to paint lecture and teach natural history until his death in 1981. A great champion of wildlife art he exhibited his own work widely and was especially keen to encourage young artists. He was the author of twelve books including the posthumously published Bird Man's River illustrating all but one of them himself and the illustrator of a similar number by other authors. Ennion was a founder member and Honorary Vice President of the Society of Wildlife Artists. Widely exhibited at the Greatorex Galleries Arthur Ackermann & Son Ltd West Mills Gallery and snapped up at auctions today. Benton Street Books in association with The Wildlife Gallery Hardcover