Audubon, J.J. The Original Water-colour Paintings by John James Audubon for the Birds of America.
1st. Ed. Pub. Michael Joseph. 1966 Two volume set with 431 colour plates (20 fold-out) across both volumes. Small folio. Fine hardbacks in vg. publisher’s decorative slipcase. Although not inscribed, from the library of ornithologist, artist, author and editor Robert Gillmor MBE (purchased by us, May 2023).
£85.00 [ref: 65174]
Audubon, John James. Audubon’s Birds of America. The Royal Octavo Edition.
1st. Ed. Pub. Thunder Bay Press. 1994 pp.32 plus 500 colour plates. Large 8vo. Light dust marks to top of text block, o/w. a fine hardback in fine dw.
This work reproduces all 500 plates from the first edition of the Royal Octavo edition of ‘Birds of America’ produced by Audubon in 1839 “ as would enable every student or lover of nature to place it in his library,”.
£40.00 [ref: 62728]
Avery, M. &. Leslie, R. Birds and Forestry.
1st. Ed. Pub. Poyser. 1990 pp.xii, 299 with b/w. photos. and illus. 8vo. Fine hardback in fine dw.
Written following the conflict between forestry and nature conservation in the 1980s, this book studies which birds are threatened, which species benefit from afforestation, the value placed on these species, and the ways in which forestry can fit in with the needs and demands of conservationists.
£30.00 [ref: 62765]
Avery, M. &. Leslie, R. Birds and Forestry.
1st. Ed. Pub. Poyser. 1990 pp.xii, 299 with b/w. photos. and illus. 8vo. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
Written following the conflict between forestry and nature conservation in the 1980s, this book studies which birds are threatened, which species benefit from afforestation, the value placed on these species, and the ways in which forestry can fit in with the needs and demands of conservationists.
£20.00 [ref: 62752]
Avery, M. &. Leslie, R. Birds and Forestry.
1st. Ed. Pub. Poyser. 1990 pp.xii, 299 with b/w. photos. and illus. 8vo. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
Written following the conflict between forestry and nature conservation in the 1980s, this book studies which birds are threatened, which species benefit from afforestation, the value placed on these species, and the ways in which forestry can fit in with the needs and demands of conservationists.
£25.00 [ref: 59775]
Avery, M. &. Leslie, R. Birds and Forestry.
1st. Ed. Pub. Poyser. 1990 pp.xii, 299 with b/w. photos. and illus. 8vo. Signature. Nr. fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
Written following the conflict between forestry and nature conservation in the 1980s, this book studies which birds are threatened, which species benefit from afforestation, the value placed on these species, and the ways in which forestry can fit in with the needs and demands of conservationists.
£20.00 [ref: 61403]
Avery, M. &. Leslie, R. Birds and Forestry.
1st. Ed. Pub. Poyser. 1990 pp.xii, 299 with some photos. 8vo. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
£30.00 [ref: 55608]
Aziz, L. Hummingbirds. A Beginner’s Guide.
1st. Ed. Pub. Firefly Books. 2002 pp.64 with colour photos., throughout. 4to. Nr. fine softback.
With chapers on physical make-up, behaviour and ecology, all superbly illustrated with fine colour photographs.
£4.00 [ref: 57115]
Babington, Churchill. Catalogue of the Birds of Suffolk; With an Introduction and Remarks on their Distribution.
1st. Ed. Pub. Van Voorst. 1884-1886 pp.[x], 281 with map frontis. and 7 b/w. photographic plates from stuffed birds. 8vo. Hardback. With ownership signature (dated 15/ii/1918) of Maud Doria Haviland. A little clear sellotape to front-pastedown, some spotting at ends, to fore-edges of text block and border of one plate o/w. contents fine. Original green cloth boards nr. fine with just very minor shelf-rubbing.
Maud Haviland (1889-1941) the English ornithologist, entomologist, explorer, lecturer, photographer and writer. Her most popular work was ‘A Summer on the Yenesi’, her writing being inspired by Henry Seebohm
£110.00 [ref: 63494]
Bailey, A.M. Birds of Arctic Alaska.
1st. Ed. Pub. Colorado Museum of Nat. Hist. 1948 pp.317 with b/w. photos., throughout. Large 8vo. Thor. vg. softback. Original softback covers.
The first third of this work is a fascinating insight into the authors travels in this region, the remainder discussing the birds, their nests and eggs wherever possible. Some species feature images of their nests, eggs and young.
£18.00 [ref: 60145]