Bailey, A.M. & Sorensen, J.H. Subantarctic Campbell Island.
1st. Ed. Pub. Denver Museum of Natural History. 1962 pp. 305 with many close-up photographs of birds on the nest. A vg. copy in cloth boards.
This is a record of an expedition to Campbell Island undertaken in January and February 1958. Campbell Island is situated due south of New Zealand’s South Island. This island has some of the finest nesting grounds for albatrosses. This report contains a great deal of information taken from published papers and other documentation.
£29.00 [ref: 25672]

Baker, J.A. The Peregrine. 50th Anniversary Edition.
New. Ed. Pub. William Collins. 2017 pp.217. 8vo. A new softback.
This new edition of the timeless classic, published to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its first publication, features an afterword by one of the book’s greatest admirers, Robert Macfarlane.
£12.99 [ref: 52327]

Baker, K. Warblers of Europe, Asia and North Africa.
1st. Ed. Pub. Christopher Helm. 1997 pp.400 with 48 colour plates and dist. maps. Large 8vo. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
A comprehensive guide to this difficult to identify group of birds. One hundred and forty-five species are described in detail, including sections on moult, voice, habitat and behaviour, distribution and measurements.
£30.00 [ref: 59752]

Baker, K. Warblers of Europe, Asia and North Africa.
1st. Ed. Pub. Christopher Helm. 1997 pp.400 with 48 colour plates and dist. maps. Large 8vo. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
A comprehensive guide to this difficult-to-identify group of birds. One hundred and forty-five species are described in detail, including sections on moult, voice, habitat and behaviour, distribution and measurements.
£30.00 [ref: 60108]

Ballance, D.K. A Bibliography of Somerset Ornithology.
1st. Ed. Pub. Privately. 2004 pp.v, 96 with b/w. map. 4to. A nr. fine ringbound softback. Signed by author. Only 25 copies printed.
£40.00 [ref: 56965]

Ballance, D.K. Birds in Counties. [with First, Second & Third Supplements]. An Ornithological Bibliography for the Counties of England, Wales, Scotland and the Isle of Man.
1st. Ed. Pub. Imperial College Press, Isabelline Books & The Author. 2000-2015 Four volume set. Large 8vo. Fine hardback in fine dw., plus fine softbacks. The Second and Third Supplements are signed by the author.
Includes all known books, pamphlets and papers which contain substantial studies of the birds of local areas, from a county down to a back garden or a gravel pit. Besides Errata, Corrigenda et Addenda, the First Supplement includes a new section on the Channel Islands, the Second Supplement includes a new section on Ireland and the Third Supplement includes an Index to Journals & Authors.
£150.00 [ref: 59303]

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Ballance, David. et al. Somerset Atlas of Breeding and Wintering Birds. 2007-2012.
1st. Ed. Pub. Somerset Ornithological Society. 2014 pp.336 with colour photos., b/w. illus. and dist. maps. 4to. A fine hdbk. with small stain mark to bottom corner of text block. Signed by the books artist Mike Longman to title page, with pencil illustration by him on facing page.
£40.00 [ref: 51268]

Balmer, D. et al. Bird Ringing. A Concise Guide.
Pub. British Trust for Ornithology. 2009 pp.75 with colour photographs and text figs. 8vo. A fine softback.
£8.00 [ref: 49149]

Bannerman, David A. The Canary Islands. Their History, Natural History and Scenery. An Account of an Ornithologists Camping Trips in the Archipelago.
1st. Ed. Pub. Gurney and Jackson. 1922 pp.xv, 365 with b/w. plates, colour frontis and fold-out map. 8vo. Hardback. Thinning of paper to top part of ffep. Lightly foxed fore-edges of text block otherwise contents very clean and bright. Corners of boards a little bumped. TEG. Boards gently rubbed at extremities. Overall a vg. copy.
£75.00 [ref: 45964]

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Barbour, T. Cuban Ornithology. Memoirs of the Nuttal Ornithological Club. No. IX.
Pub. Cambridge. 1943 pp.143. A vg. copy in green cloth boards.
£40.00 [ref: 39502]