Griscom, L. & Emerson, G. Birds of Martha’s Vineyard. With an Annotated Check List.
1st. Ed. Privately Printed. 1959 pp.ix, 164 with fold out map. 8vo. Fine hardback in thor. vg. to nr. fine dw. Scarce.
Marth’s Vineyard is an island lying just to the south of Cape Cod in Massachusetts. It includes the smaller Chappaquiddick Island, which is adjacent to it and usually connected to the Vineyard by a narrow barrier beach.
£75.00 [ref: 62836]

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Hachisuka, Masa U. A Handbook of the Birds of Iceland.
1st. Ed. Pub. Taylor & Francis. 1927 pp.iv, 128 with b/w. plates and folding diagram. Small 4to. Hardback. Ex-Zoological Society London with their bookplate (stating their date of purchasing the book - Nov. 4th 1927) and stamps to prelims. Light spotting to ends o/w. contents fine. Original publisher’s blue cloth with gilt motif of the Iceland Falcon or Gyrfalcon to front board in thor. vg. condition.
The author visited Iceland in 1925 ‘for the purpose of gaining an intimate knowledge of the birds breeding there, and of collecting sufficient material to determine the authenticity of various geographical races which have been a matter of doubt to ornithologists for many years.' Includes two plates after drawings by Henrik Grönvold.
£90.00 [ref: 68095]

Hagemeijer, W.J.M. & Blair, M.J. (Ed.). The EBCC Atlas of European Breeding Birds. Their distribution and abundance.
1st. Ed. Pub. Poyser. 1997 pp.cxli, 903 with many illus., maps. Royal 4to. A fine hdbk. in fine dustwrapper.
£50.00 [ref: 49593]

Harrison, C. An Atlas of the Birds of the Western Palearctic.
1st. Ed. Pub. Collins. 1982 pp.322 with b/w illus. & col. dist. maps. Large 8vo. Some spotting to fore-edges of text block o/w. a fine hardback in thor. vg. dw.
This atlas maps the summer, winter and resident distributions of 639 bird species in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
£10.00 [ref: 32362]

Harrison, C.S. Seabirds of Hawaii. Natural History and Conservation.
1st. Ed. Pub. Comstock. 1990 pp.x, 248 with 41 col. photos. & b/w. illus. Large 8vo. Fine softback.
This book, the first to portray a tropical seabird community, treats the 22 species of seabirds of the Hawaiian archipelago.
£6.00 [ref: 36442]

Harrison, Colin. An Atlas of the Birds of the Western Palaearctic.
Collins, 1982. Pp.322 mapping the summer, winter and resident distributions of 639 species & the breeding ranges of 167 adjacent areas. Name on flyleaf. Thoroughly good, in dw.
£4.00 [ref: 22445]

Higgins, P.J., Peter, J.M. & Cowling, S.J. (Eds.). Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Birds. Volume 7 - Boatbill to Starlings. Part B. Dunnock to Starlings.
1st. Ed. Pub. Oxford. 2006 pp.viii, 1057-1984 with colour plates and distribution maps. 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw.
The Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Birds is one of the most exciting and significant projects in Australasian ornithology. They provide a comprehensive and accurate synthesis of knowledge of all the birds that occur in the regions.
£150.00 [ref: 72613]

Iapichino, C. & Massa, B. The Birds of Sicily. An annotated Checklist. BOU Checklist Series: 11.
1st. Ed. Pub. British Ornithologists’ Union. 1989 pp.170 with b/w. photos., and maps. 8vo. Fine hardback.
Provides detailed information on the status of Sicilian avifauna.
£32.50 [ref: 68049]

Inskipp, C. & T. A Guide to the Birds of Nepal.
1st. Pub. Croom Helm. 1985 pp, 392 with many identification drawings, vignettes, 8 colour plates and many maps. Stamped ‘damaged’, but no obvious defects. In lightly chipped dw., a vg. copy.
A complete guide to Nepalese birds, providing fully illustrated analysis of the distribution and status of Nepal’s 835 species, with 676 distribution maps covering all but the rarer and more localised birds.
£35.00 [ref: 27497]

Jeyarajasingam, A. & Pearson, A. A Field Guide to the Birds of West Malaysia and Singapore.
1st. Ed. Pub. Oxford Uni. Press. 1999 pp.xxiv, 460 with 72 colour plates and map endpapers. 8vo. Nr. fine hardback.
The most comprehensive field guide for identifying birds in this area.
£70.00 [ref: 58772]