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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
réf. 035990Painting. Illus. by Clifford Cyril Webb. Near Fine. Unframed. Signed by THE ARTIST. Limited. 53cm By 35cm. Clifford Cyril Webb British 1895-1972 'Eider Duck' limited edition colour linocut print numbered 4/20 signed and inscribed by the the artist unframed. The printed area is 53cm x 35cm sheet size is 59cm x 43cm. Printed on fine Japan paper laid on heavy weight woven paper. A few gentle creases to top right hand corner please see image that appear to have been present prior to being laid or as a result of being laid mininimal toning. A superb example of Clifford Webb's work. We have only been able to locate one other example of this work and that was limitation no. 3; it is clearly a scarce linocut and it is not unlikely that the full complement of 20 prints was ever produced. Clifford Webb prolific and renowned illustrator of books and magazines possibly most famous for designing the dust jackets and illustrating the Swallows and Amazon series of books by Arthur Ransome. A contemporary of Cyril Power and Sybil Andrews. Please contact us if you would like to view any of our artwork in person. 0. unknown
1982réf. 035951Oxford: Oxford University Press 1982. Book. Illus. by Martin Woodcock. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. 328 pages; colour plates & b/w illustrations. Original dust jacket near fine not price clipped. Hard back binding fine. Contents clean and tight unmarked no inscriptions. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. Oxford University Press Hardcover
1935réf. 035936London: H. F. & G. Witherby 1935. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 245 pages frontispiece plate with tissue guard and further b/w plates. Dust jacket very good with some general and rubbing dust soiled a little loss to the top of the spine not price-clipped now protected in a clear removable sleeve. Cloth hardbarck binding near fine. Contents clean and tight a few spots to fore-edges attractive bookplate belonging to Eric Hosking to the front pastedown. A very good copy in a scarce dust jacket with a good provenance. 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 Hardcover
1866réf. 036070London: John Van Voorst 1866. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp. xvi 284 tinted frontispiece plate with tissue guard. Green cloth binding near fine gilt bright bright gilt vignette to the front board. Contents clean and tight brown endpapers unmarked a few spots to edge of frontispiece margin otherwise unmarked. A very clean near fine first edition. John Van Voorst Hardcover
réf. 036057Norfolk 1993. Drawing. Illus. by Robert Gillmor. Fine. Framed. Signed by THE ARTIST. Original. 28cm x 57cm. THE ONLY GILLMOR NEW NATURALIST JACKET WHERE THE ILLUSTRATION IS DRAWN IN BLACK AND WHITE ON CONQUILLE BOARD WITH COLOUR ADDED LATER DURING THE PRINTING PROCESS. Large original drawing of the front panel of the final layout for Caves and Cave Life New Naturalist No. 79 not only the full size pencil drawing of the front panel of the jacket but also finished layout of the jacket on coquille board. Superb illustration of Robert's artistic ability. In 1985 Robert took on the design of the jackets for Harper Collins' renowned New Naturalists series until 2022. Much of his work has been at sell-out exhibitions at the Pinkfoot Gallery in Cley he is one of the UK's most collectable printmakers. Artwork attached to acid free backing with conservtion tape glazed with frame fine. . Frame size 39cm x 66cm. Robert Allen Fitzwilliam Gillmor MBE 1936 - 2022 was a British ornithologist artist illustrator author and editor. He was a co-founder of the Society of Wildlife Artists SWLA and was its secretary chairman and president. He contributed to over 100 books most notably the New Naturalist series. unknown
1892réf. 036071London: Gurney & Jackson 1892. Book. Illus. by G.E Lodge Victor Prout. Near Fine. Hardcover. Second Edition Revised. 8vo. Pp. 2 xxvi 271 4; large fold out map in text and plate illustrations throughout by Lodge and others. Green cloth binding very good and bright light rubbing to joints. Contents clean and tight no foxing original yellow end papers. Freddie Spencer Chapman's copy with his pencil initials and date to the front free end paper. A clean near fine copy. F. S. Chapman needs little introduction - war time hero and ornithologisht with an extraordinary story: for over three years during the second world war he "blew up trains bridges and enemy soldiers in the jungles of Malaya all the while studying birdlife and sending home seeds". Gurney & Jackson Hardcover
1904réf. 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
