125. Toms, M. Owls. The New Naturalist.
1st. Ed. Pub. Collins. 2014 A new softback copy. NEW PUBLICATION. Save £7.00. RRP £35.00.
The first part of this superb book covers various aspects of owl taxonomy, origins, anatomy, behaviour and ecology and looks across the British owl species, drawing comparisons and highlighting differences. The second part takes each species in turn to provide a more detailed perspective, fleshing out relevant conservation issues, behaviour and status.
£28.00 [ref: 46084]

Adams, A.B. John James Audubon. A Biography.
1st. Ed. Pub. Victor Gollancz. 1967 pp.510 with b/w. illus. 8vo. Nr. fine hardback in good to vg. dw.
A thorough insight into this great man of American ornithology.
£9.00 [ref: 32531]

Adams, H.G. Favourite Song Birds. New Edition.
Pub. Groombridge and Sons. 1887 pp.192 with eight fine hand-coloured engravings. 8vo. Hardback. AEG. Spotting to title page and a little internally, o/w. contents fine. In original decorated cloth boards in thor. vg. to nr. fine condition.
The last edition of this very charming work
£80.00 [ref: 65162]

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Adams, H.G. & H.B. The Smaller British Birds. With descriptions of their Nests, Eggs, Habits etc.
2nd. Ed. Pub. Gibbings and Co. 1894 pp.iv, 252 with 16 colour plates of birds by A.F. Lydon and 16 colour plates of eggs. Small 4to. Bookplate to ffep. Some spotting very largely confined to end-papers and fore-edges of text block, o/w. contents fine. Original, gilt decorated boards in thor. vg. condition.
Informed and charmingly written. Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) was a British watercolour artist, illustrator and engraver of natural history and landscapes. He worked for Benjamin Fawcett the printer (of Driffield), to whom he had been apprenticed from an early age.
£95.00 [ref: 62932]

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Alerstam, Thomas. Bird Migration.
1st. Pbk. Ed. Rep. Pub. Cambridge. 1994 pp.vii, 420 with b/w. text figs. Royal 8vo. A nr. fine softback, gently sunned along spine and edges.
£38.00 [ref: 50946]

Alexander, W.B. An Annotated List of the Birds of Berkshire.
1st. Ed. Pub. Oxford Ornithological Soc. 1952 pp.42. 8vo. Bookplate. Thor. vg. softback. Very scarce.
£48.00 [ref: 55908]

Alfadhel, A.F. Birds of Kuwait. A Portrait.
1st. Ed. Pub. Abdullah F. Alfadhel. 2005 pp.304 with colour photos. throughout. 4to. Text in Arabic with English and Latin names and Indexes and with a chapter on Bird-Watching Sites in Kuwait in English. Fine hardback in fine dw.
Includes a complete list of all 380 recorded birds in Kuwait, and more than 400 superb photographs.
£40.00 [ref: 60153]

Ali, S. The Fall of a Sparrow.
1st. Ed. Pub. Oxford. 1985 pp.xv, 265 with 71 b/w. photographic plates. 8vo. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
This is the autobiography of the celebrated ornithologist Salim Ali.
£19.50 [ref: 64082]

Ali, S. & Dillon Ripley, S. Compact Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan. Together with those of Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Sri Lanka.
2nd. Ed. Pub. Oxford University Press. 1987 pp.xxxviii, 737 with 104 full-page col. plates, b/w. illus. and dist. maps to text. Large 4to. Hardback. Marking to fore-edges of text block o/w. contents fine. Original blue cloth boards with some sunning to upper edges and slight bumping extremities, in vg. dw.
Nearly 1,200 species of birds are covered. Concise details on distribution, habitats, breeding, biology, diet, voice, etc, supported by 104 colour plates.
£27.50 [ref: 63664]

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Ali, S. and Ripley, S.D. Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan. Together with those of Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka. Compact Edition.
1st. Ed. Pub. O.U.P. Delhi. 1983 pp.xlii, 737 with 113 colour plates at rear of text plus b/w. text figs. & dist. maps. 4to. Light marks to top-edge of text block o/w. a fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
This compact edition is an indispensable publication for all students of ornithology. This compact edition contains the complete descriptive text of the original ten volume work, additional text and 113 plates, 24 of which are new.
£20.00 [ref: 42793]