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2007réf. 037183London: Maggs Bros. and Peregrine Books 2007. Book. Fine. Hardback. Limited Edition. Folio. This is copy number 87 of 120 Standard Copies There were also 40 De Luxe Copies. Pp. xv 257 42 tipped-in colour plates facsimiles of lists of subscribers and original wrappers printed on pink paper. Dust jacket with a little rubbing to edges slightly creased at head of spine. Hardback binding of plum buckram fine; contents clean and tight unmarked no inscriptions. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Maggs Bros. and Peregrine Books Hardcover
1893réf. 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
réf. 038280London: Self published by the author 1902. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. 1902 Part I 1-498 1903 Part II 499-922. Original card wrappers professionally laid on reinforcement card a little loss to the original card spines at the base minimal wear. Contents clean and tight edges uncut name scribbled over in pen to the top of the front free endpaper to both volumes otherwise unmarked. A very good copy of this set in original covers. Self published by the author Paperback
1899réf. 038275London: R. H. Porter 1899. Book. Illus. by Meinertzhagen Dan. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 143 pages and 27 b/w etchings by Meinertzhagen to the rear; frontispiece plate and portrait of Meinertzhagen b/w photographic plates throughout. Original hardback binding very good with a little general wear and some rubbing to the spine. Contents clean and tight slipped in is the obit. paper cutting for Meinertzhagen Feb. 17 1898previous owner's name tot he front free endpaper and very light spotting no inscriptions. A very good complete copy. R. H. Porter Hardcover
1872réf. 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
2011réf. 038197London: Benton Street Books in association with The Wildlife Art Gallery 2011. Book. Illus. by Eric Ennion. New. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. More than seventy years after Eric Ennion began work on the title Bird Man's river Bob Walthew has brought together Ennion's work and additional illustrations to produce three superb books. All as new. 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. Also available as individual copies. Benton Street Books in association with The Wildlife Art Gallery Hardcover
1904réf. 038288London: Brumby & Clarke Limited 1904. Book. Illus. by Frohawk F. W. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to 22 x 29cm. "With 24 Coloured plates illustrating 475 specimens"; pp. 105. The 254 chromolithographic plates are all very good and with the original tissue guards a few marked; half-title & title pages. Original two-tone green cloth binding with gilt lettering very good with a little general wear and rubbing only. Contents clean and tight inscription in ink to the top of the half title dated 1904 original end-papers toned and a little brittle around the edges slight spotting to title page and the odd page edge some rusting to staples running down the spine of the first few gathers plates clean. A very good copy. The plates used in different editions of this work are not standard and vary in quality this particular edition includes plates printed to a high standard and importantly the eggs are illustrated with shadows giving a particularly 3-dimensional look: they are in our opinion superior to some earlier editions. Brumby & Clarke Limited Hardcover
1912réf. 038354London: 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 cloth a little marked by scratches slight rubbing to edges. Contents clean and tight top edges gilt endpapers foxed a little spotting to the first few pages but generally clean no inscriptions. A very good set. Gurney and Jackson Hardcover
1996réf. 038299London: Academic Press harcourt Brace & Company Publishers Raptor Research Foundation 1996. Book. Near Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo. 396 pages; b/w illustrations. Covers near fine unfaded. Contents clean and tight no inscriptions. A near fine copy. Academic Press harcourt Brace & Company, Publishers [Raptor Research Foundation] Hardcover
1990réf. 038396Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1990. Book. Illus. by Chris Rose. Near Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Authors. First Edition. 4to. 256 pages; b/w illustrations. Original dust jacket near fine with minimal wear some spotting on the underside only not price-clipped. Hard back binding fine. Contents clean and tight a few spots to the endpaper and fore-edge inscribed by the author to John Mitchell fellow New Naturalist author otherwise unmarked. Cambridge University Press Hardcover
1895réf. 038446London: Cassel and Company Limited 1895. Book. Very Good. Green Cloth. First Edition. Large 8vo approx. 17 x 24cm. pp. xx 368 b/w photographic frontispiece with tissue guard further b/w plates throughout. Original green cloth binding with gilt stamped vignette of gannet on nest to the front board gilt titling and decoration to the spine. Binding very good with a little general wear and rubbing cloth a little faded. Contents clean and tight just the endpapers a little spotted hinges good and strong text and plates clean. A very good copy. Cassel and Company, Limited Hardcover
1966réf. 036849London: H. F. & G. Witherby 1966. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo 22 x 14. 5 cm. pp. viii 286. Dust jacket with faded and toned spine otherwise very good and complete not price-clipped now protected in a clear removable archival sleeve. Hardback binding fine. Contents clean and tight unmarked no spotting or foxing no inscriptions. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket. An increasingly scarce title and a fine read. "Collingwood Ingram is an author with whom every naturalist should be familiar: he writes well often with considerable humour and always laced with scholarship and authority.". H. F. & G. Witherby Hardcover
1916réf. 036991Cambridge: Cambridge at the University Press 1916. Book. Very Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo. pp. xii 275 includes erratum slip numerous illustrations. Bound in brown cloth with a illustration to front board title lettering in black to the spine very good. Contents clean and tight bookplate belonging to Eric Hosking to the front pastedown no inscriptions. A very good copy. Copy from the library of Eric Hosking.Eric Hosking OBE Hon FRPS FBIPP 1909-1991 was widely acknowledged as one of the world's most eminent natural history photographers "Perhaps the most famous bird photographer ever to have lived" Gemma Padley. He was pioneering and developed new techniques especially the use of flash photography and automatic shutter release technology which enabled him to photograph birds at night and freeze birds in flight for the first time. Famously when just 28 he lost an eye to a tawny owl while climbing up to a hide in rural Wales the event which inspired the ingeneous title of his autobiography "An Eye for a Bird" 1970. Over his exceptionally long career he photographed over 1800 species and his pictures have appeared in some 1000 books including the popular New Naturalist series of which he was photographic editor. Hosking was not only a photographer of birds but also a highly knowledgeable ornithologist. Cambridge at the University Press Hardcover
1893réf. 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
1872réf. 037067London: 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. Contents clean and tight some foxing to the endpapers on the reverse of the front free endpaper are the signatures of Alexander William Clark Kennedy of the Cold Stream guards 1873 and the initials of Rev. F. C. R Joudain 1899. A good book with a significant provenance firstly belonging to A. W. Clark Kennedy and later given to Rev. Francis Jourdain author of books such as A Handbook of British Birds by Kirkman and Joudain Clark-Kennedy Alexander William Maxwell 1851 -1894 Alexander William Maxwell Clark- Kennedy was born at Rochester Kent. He attended school at Aldershot and then at Eton College. He married Hon. Lettice Lucy Hewitt daughter of James 4th Viscount Lifford d. 1939 in Donegal in 1875 with whom he had five sons and two daughters. In 1867 he inherited the family estate of Knockgray in Galloway. While still at Eton at the age of sixteen he wrote The birds of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire: a contribution to the natural history of the two counties Eton 1868 which proved very popular. Following Eton he joined the Coldstream Guards rising to the rank of Captain. He continued his interests in hunting shooting and fishing and was a member of several societies and associations becoming a Fellow of the Linnaean Society and the Antiquarian Society of Scotland. He also penned To the Arctic regions and back in six weeks : being a summer tour to Lapland and Norway : with notes on sport and natural history London 1878 and Robert the Bruce: a poem historical and romantic London 1884. Ref: Ballance p203; Freeman 817; Mullens & Swann p.144. John Van Voorst Hardcover
1935réf. 037062London: H. F. & G. Witherby 1935. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 303 pages frontispiece plate and further b/w plates and fold out map. Cloth binding very good lightly marked gilt lettering to the spine. Contents clean and tight name and address to the front free endpaper otherwise unmarked and appears unread. A very good copy. H. F. & G. Witherby Hardcover
2007réf. 036355Barcelona: Lynx Edicions 2007. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. 521 pages numerous colour illustrations. Original hardback binding fine . Contents clean and tight unmarked no inscriptions. A fine tight copy. Lynx Edicions Hardcover
1989réf. 036383Oxford: Oxford University Press 1989. Book. Illus. by Sherif M. Baha El Din. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. pp.551; 6 colour plates b/w illustrations maps and tables; map end papers. Original dust jacket near fine no fading minimal wear not price clipped. Hard back binding fine. Contents clean and tight unmarked no inscriptions. A fine copy in a near fine jacket. Oxford University Press Hardcover
1946réf. 036466London: Collins 1946. Book. Illus. by Edward Bradbury And Ellis dust jacket. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. Second Impression. 8vo. 192 pages. Dust jacket by the Ellis' good some loss to spine and corners price clipped and now presented in an archival sleeve. Red cloth binding very good. Contents clean and tight signed by the author to the title page endpapers unmarked. A very good signed copy. Collins Hardcover
1889réf. 036460London: Gurney and Jackson 1889. Book. Illus. by Chapman Abel. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Pp. xii 286 2 pages adverts; numerous fine pen and ink drawings and in-text illustrations throughout by Abel Chapman. Original blue cloth titled in gilt on spine. Binding very good and bright light wear only to the top and bottom of the spine and corners. Content clean and tight original brown endpapers wear along the hinge unmarked but for the pencil signature of F. S. Chapman no relative but the explorer and author also signed in pencil to the half title to the reverse of the front free endpaper no foxing no inscriptions. A very good copy. BIOG. Frederick Spencer Chapman DSO & Bar ED 1907 - 1971 was a British Army officer and World War II veteran most famous for his exploits behind enemy lines in Japanese occupied Malaya. His medals include the following: the Distinguished Service Order and Bar the Polar Medal Gill Memorial Medal Mungo Park Medal and the Lawrence of Arabia Memorial Medal. He joined many expeditions. Chapman was attached as "ski expert and naturalist" to Gino Watkins' 1930 -31 British Arctic Air Route Expedition. Expedition members included John Rymill and Augustine Courtauld. He also joined Watkins' subsequent fatal Greenland Expedition of 1932-33 which was led by Rymill after Watkins' death. Chapman experienced cold of such intensity that he lost all his finger and toe nails. Gurney and Jackson Hardcover
1883réf. 036528London: Taylor and Francis 1883. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed to a Slip. First Edition. 8vo. Volume 1 only Pp. 185; Extracted from the "Journal of the Northamptonshire Natural History Society" and printed for private circulation. Original green pebbled cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine very good. Contents clean and tight some foxing to endpapers tipped into the front free endpaper an inscription from Lord Lilford to Lady Lyveden "from hers affectionately and ornithiologically The Author Lilford 1883". A very good copy. Taylor and Francis Hardcover
1898réf. 036527London: Longmans Green & Co. 1898. Book. Illus. by Bryon Hook Photographs from Nature R. B. Lodge. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Pp. xiv 339 40 ; b/w frontispiece of a crow by Bryon Hook further black and white plates and illustrations all present and correct; int-text illustrations. Original green cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine and a gilt vignette to the front board very goood with a little general wear. Contents clean and tight original black end papers tipped in before the half title is a sheet with a newspaper extract on Hudson's death dated 1922. A very good copy. Longmans, Green & Co. Hardcover
2015réf. 036563Paris: Delachaux Et Niestlé 2015. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. Slip case containing volumes one and two. Hard back bindings fine slip case a little marked. Contents clean and tight unmarked no inscriptions. A fine copy in a very good slip case. Very heavy so may require and extra postage charge. Delachaux Et Niestlé Hardcover
1869réf. 036613London: John Van Voorst 1869. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo 19 x 13 cm. pp x 643; some pages remain uncut. Green cloth hardback binding very good and bright gilt bright contents clean and tight no inscriptions attractive bookplate belonging to Robert Washington Oates no foxing. A near fine first edition copy. Robert Washington Oates a relative of Frank and Lawrence Oates was an extremely wealthy man and like Frank Robert Washington Oates was a fan of natural history; so when he heard in 1954 that there were plans to turn Gilbert White's home into a museum but the project was struggling financially; Oates stepped in purchased The Wakes and helped to fund the Museum and donating his natural history library and the Oates family collection. John Van Voorst Hardcover
1941réf. 035848London: H.F. & G. Witherby Ltd 1941. Book. Very Good. Paperback. Revised Edition. 8vo. This copy belonged to Eric Hosking and bears his bookplate to the front pastedown. 78 pages. Covers very good with light general wear. Contents clean and tight no inscriptions. A very good copy. Eric Hosking OBE Hon FRPS FBIPP 1909-1991 was widely acknowledged as one of the world's most eminent natural history photographers "Perhaps the most famous bird photographer ever to have lived" Gemma Padley. He was pioneering and developed new techniques especially the use of flash photography and automatic shutter release technology which enabled him to photograph birds at night and freeze birds in flight for the first time. Famously when just 28 he lost an eye to a tawny owl while climbing up to a hide in rural Wales the event which inspired the ingeneous title of his autobiography "An Eye for a Bird" 1970. Over his exceptionally long career he photographed over 1800 species and his pictures have appeared in some 1000 books including the popular New Naturalist series of which he was photographic editor. Hosking was not only a photographer of birds but also a highly knowledgeable ornithologist. H.F. & G. Witherby Ltd Paperback
