Gorman, G. The Birds of Hungary
1st. Ed. Pub. Christopher Helm. 1996 pp.192 with b/w. illus. and dist. maps throughout. 8vo. Fine hardback in fine dw. Out-of-print.
Hungary has a wide variety of habitats and many interesting and important species, including the Great Bustard, Imperial Eagle and Aquatic Warbler. This avifauna covers 363 species, providing detailed information on their status and distribution.
£35.00 [ref: 60970]

Gould, John. Birds of Asia. Text by A. Rutgers.
Pub. Methuen. 1969 pp.321 with reproductions of 80 plates. 4to. Light foxing to the last 6 pages. Overall a vg. hardback.
£15.00 [ref: 42002]

Gregory, G. The Birds of the State of Kuwait.
1st. Ed. Pub. George Gregory. 2005 pp.219 with colour photos. 8vo. Fine softback. RRP £14.99.
Kuwait occupies the south-eastern corner of the Western Palearctic Avifaunal Region, and it is one of the few remaining countries in this region that until now did not have a readily available book containing an up-to-date bird list.
£10.00 [ref: 60033]

Grimmett, R. et al. Birds of the Indian Subcontinent.
1st. Ed. Pub. Christopher Helm. 1998 pp.888 with 153 colour plates and dist.maps. Large 8vo. Fine hardback in fine dw.
This is the first comprehensive identification guide to the 1,300 species found in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and the Maldives.
£40.00 [ref: 60997]

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]