Ching, Raymond. Studies & Sketches of a Bird Painter.
1st. Ed. Pub. Lansdowne. 1981 pp.260 with full-page colour plates and sketches throughout. Folio. Very minor spotting to top edge of half-title, o/w. contents fine. Original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine, lightly marked o/w. fine. With Phaidon Press’ 4-page, folio, colour illustrated pre-publication advert for ‘Studies & Sketches of a Bird Painter’ loosely inserted, which provides detail on the contents, editions and an order form.
"Perhaps of all the painters of the late twentieth century, the considerable influence of Ramond Ching has done more than any other to establish the position of bird painting as an art form."
£95.00 [ref: 67907]

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Ching, Raymond. The Bird Paintings. Water colours and pencil drawings 1969-1975.
Pub. Collins. 1978 pp.142 with 24 full page plates in colour and 31 illus in b/w. Book in fine condition. Dustwrapper a little chipped in a handful of places with small mark on rear of dustwrapper from ribbon used to bring the book out of its slipcase, otherwise very good. Slipcase a little marked in places otherwise very good. Overall a very good copy. Folio.
£150.00 [ref: 46016]

Chisholm, A.H. Birds & Green Places. A Book of Australian Nature Gossip.
1st. Ed. Pub. J. M. Dent & Sons. 1929 pp.xiv, 224 with 2 colour plates and b/w. photos. Large 8vo. Thor. vg. hardback in vg. dw., very carefully repaired in places. Scarce in dustwrapper.
Excellent photographs illustrating birds and their nests.
£35.00 [ref: 62827]

Chislett, R. & Ainsworth, G. H. Birds on the Spurn Peninsula.
1st. Ed. Pub. Peregrine Books. 1996 pp.xlv, 216, with colour frontis., b/w. plates, charts, tables and fold out map. 8vo. Hardback. Light coloured splashmark and a little cockling to fore-corner of text block o/w. contents fine. Cloth boards nr. fine with light splashmark to rear in fine dw.
Published in part in 1958, the rest of the work was discovered in handwritten manuscript form in 1992, twenty eight years after Ralph Chislett's death. This is the first publication of the work as the author intended it. Part 1 is reproduced in facsimile form, and Part 2 is printed in a matching format.
£25.00 [ref: 70308]

Christidis, L. and Boles, W.E. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds.
1st. Ed. Pub. CSIRO. 2008 pp.viii, 277. Large 8vo. Bookplate. Fine hardback. Out-of-print.
Presenting an up-to-date classification, this book deals with all the species of birds that have been recorded from the Australian mainland, Tasmania, island territories and surrounding waters. Also includes accepted vagrants, recently extinct native species, and established introduced species.
£55.00 [ref: 58262]

Christy, Miller. The Birds of Essex. A Contribution to the Natural History of the County.
1st. Ed. Pub. Simpkin, Marshall & Co. 1890 pp.viii, 302 with frontis., 162 woodcut illus., two plans plus 3-page publishers’ catalogue and 2-page history of the Essex Field Club. 8vo. Hardback. Signature and date to ffep., with name and inscription, dated 1898, to verso. Contents fine. Original illustrated red-cloth boards in vg. plus condition.
£40.00 [ref: 60829]

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Clancey, P.A. A Handlist of the Birds of Southern Mocambique. Parts 1 & 2.
1st. Ed. Pub. Marques. 1971 pp.146-302 and pp.1-167. Two parts bound in one with 39 colour plates (plate 19 was never published), b/w. photos & dist. maps. Large 8vo. Light spotting to fore-edges of text block o/w. contents fine. Card covers thor. vg.
This book is based on the literary and specimen resources of Durban Museum together with first-hand experience in the field over the course of four expeditions to Mozambique.
£22.50 [ref: 41247]

Clancey, P.A. Gamebirds of Southern Africa. Being a Guide to all the Major Sporting Birds of Africa south of the Cunene, Okavango and Zambezi Rivers.
2nd. Ed. Pub. Purnell & Sons, Cape Town. 1967 pp.xviii, 224 with 12 colour plates, b/w. illus and maps. 4to. Nr. fine hardback in good to vg. dw.
£7.50 [ref: 64290]

Clancey, P.A. The Rare Birds of Southern Africa.
1st. Ed. Pub. Winchester Press. 1985 pp.512 with colour plates and dist. maps. 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw.
A showcase of the 94 rarest birds to be found in Southern Africa, superbly illustrated in full colour by Dr P.A. Clancey.
£50.00 [ref: 59291]

Clark, J.M. Birds of the Hants/Surrey Border.
1st. Ed. Pub. Hobby Books. 1984 pp.147 with b/w. illus. and dist. maps. Large 8vo. Fine softback.
£5.00 [ref: 64079]