American Bird Conservancy. Birds of North America. The New Guide to All the Birds of the USA and Canada.
1st. Ed. Pub. HarperCollins. 1997 pp.172 with colour illus. and dist. maps. 8vo. Inscription to title page. Fine softback. Out-of-print.
Pioneering guide to identifying the birds of the USA and Canada, covering nearly all species to be recorded there, and many vagrants. Reflecting the most recent taxonomic changes, the guide also utilises recent advances in our knowledge of bird identification, and the most up-to-date information on species distribution. Each double-page entry contains extensive illustrations of the species concerned, with notes on their identification, distribution, and ecology.
£6.50 [ref: 65357]

Anderson Brown, A.F. The Incubation Book.
1st. Ed. 2nd. Imp. Rep. Pub. World Pheasant Assoc. 1987 pp.ix, 246 with b/w. photos. and illus. 8vo. A fine hardback.
Particularly useful for those rearing game birds and waterfowl as well as poultry.
£9.00 [ref: 55298]

Aplin, O.V. The Birds of Oxfordshire.
1st. Ed. Pub. Clarendon Press. 1889 pp.vii, 217 with hand-coloured frontis. of Alpine Chough, fold-out map and 16 page publisher’s catalogue. 8vo. Hardback. Signatures with dates of previous owners to ffep. Minor spotting to end-papers, o/w. contents fine. Original blue cloth boards in thor. vg. condition.
£100.00 [ref: 60812]

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Aplin, O.V. The Birds of Oxfordshire.
1st. Ed. Pub. Clarendon Press. 1889 pp.vii, 217 with hand-col. frontis. 8vo. Hardback. Ffep., removed. Overall contents very clean and nr. fine. Original cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration thor. vg.
The introduction states that 92 species breed annually within the limits of the county. The hand coloured frontispiece illustrates an Alpine Chough, the illustrator being S.L. Mosley.
£47.50 [ref: 40908]

Appleyard, I. Ring Ouzels of the Yorkshire Dales.
1st. Ed. Pub. W.S. Maney. 1994 pp.59 with colour photos throughout. Small 4to. Signature. Very gently sunned boards, o/w. a fine hardback. Out-of-print.
The author spent 15 years studying this intriguing and elusive bird. Covers all aspects of behaviour and includes detail on nesting sites.
£18.00 [ref: 61138]

Archbold, R. Robert Bateman. Natural Worlds.
1st. Ed. Pub. Swan Hill Press. 1996 pp.191 with colour and b/w. illus. throughout. Large landscape 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw. Although not inscribed, from the library of ornithologist, artist, illustrator, author and editor Robert Gillmor MBE (purchased by us May 2023). Out-of-print.
In this work Robert Bateman explores in words, sketches and magnificent new paintings the living systems upon which all life depends. From the drama of Canada's rugged west coast, to life and death struggles in the Arctic, Poland's haunting ancient waterways, the serenity of Costa Rica's cloud forests and the vast plains of the Serengeti, each of the `life zones' explored in Natural Worlds reveals the complex relationships between living things and their environments.
£32.50 [ref: 65030]

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Argue, D. (Ed.). ‘Training the Short-Winged Hawk : An Elizabethan Perspective’ A Transcription of Two Important 16th Century Books on Training the Goshawk and Sparrowhawk for Falconry.
1st. Ed. Argue Publishing. 2005 pp.128 with b/w. frontis. 8vo. Light coloured marking to endpapers o/w. a fine hardback in fine dw.
The transcription is of Edmund Bert’s ‘An Approved Treatise of Hawkes and Hawking’ (first published in 1619) and the important unattributed work ‘A Perfect Books for Kepinge of Sparhawkes or Goshawkes’ (from the manuscript dated 1575).
£70.00 [ref: 71566]

Arnall, L. and Kemer, I.F. Bird Diseases.
Pub. TFH. 1975 pp.527 with colour plates and illus. A vg. plus copy in illus. boards.
£20.00 [ref: 39702]

Arnold, E.C. Birds of Eastbourne.
1st. Ed. Pub. Strange, Eastbourne. 1936 pp.93 with 10 col. and 9 half-tone plates, plus text illus. Sm 4to. Hardback. Early signature to ffep. Spotting to half title and only occ. internally o/w. contents fine. Original green cloth boards with gilt lettering and motif in nr. fine condition.

£50.00 [ref: 68076]

Ash, J.S. and Miskell, J.E. Birds of Somalia.
Rep. Pub. Helm 2013 pp.336 with colour plates, text figs. and maps throughout. A new copy in same dustwrapper. In-print at £60.00; Save £15.00.
£45.00 [ref: 45735]