Abbott, C.G. The Home-Life of The Osprey.
1st. Ed. Pub. Witherby & Co. 1911 pp.54 plus 32 pages of tipped-in b/w. photographic plates. Small 4to. Charming bookplate. Some spotting to ends and prelims., o/w. contents fine. Original green cloth in vg. condition.
£27.50 [ref: 66410]

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]

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. 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]

Alvarenga, H. Toucans of the Americas.
1st. Ed. Pub. M. Pontual. 2004 pp.120 with superb full-page colour illus. plates throughout. Large 4to. Bilingual in English and Portuguese. Fine hardback in illustrated boards. Out-of-print.
This large-format ornithologists’ guide introduces all 44 species of Toucans native to the Americas, with descriptive passages for each entry and detailed, scientifically-accurate illustrations by renowned nature artist Eduardo Brettas.
£75.00 [ref: 60318]

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]

Andrew, J. and Carter, S. (Eds.). Britain’s Birds in 1990-91: the conservation and monitoring review.
1st. Ed. Pub. British Trust for Ornithology/Joint Nature Conservation Committee. 1993 pp.iii, 200 with b/w. figs. and illus. Large 8vo. Minor printer’s crease to p.80/81 o/w. a fine softback.
The second in this annual series of overviews of Britain's major bird monitoring programmes. It presents the results of censuses, bird ringing, and many other studies, effectively making it a national bird report for the period 1990 through spring 1991. It is split into three sections: the first assesses the conservation successes and failures of the year; the second reports on individual monitoring programmes; the final section gives species accounts, each giving present population trend, change in CBC index and latest estimate of breeding population.
£3.00 [ref: 65324]