Uganda National Parks: Bird Check List as from July 1963.
Pub. Uganda Nat. Park. 1963 pp.25. A vg. copy in card covers. Scarce.
£10.00 [ref: 41705]

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]

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.
Pub. Victor Gollancz. 1967 pp.510. 8vo. Hardback. Nr. fine in good to vg. dw.
A thorough insight into this great man of American ornithology.
£20.00 [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]