Chalmers, P.R. Birds Ashore and A-Foreshore.
Pub. Collins. 1935 pp. 180 with colour and b/w. illus. Blue boards good only. Internally fine.
£25.00 [ref: 31763]

Collar, N.J. & Stuart, S.N. Threatened Birds of Africa and Related Islands. The ICBP/IUCN Red Data Book.
3rd Ed. Pub. ICBP. 1985 pp.xxxiv,761 with 12 full page coloured plates. A fine copy in dw.
£7.00 [ref: 40446]

Crew, F. Devoted to Birds.
1st. Pub. Muller. 1956 pp.63. Fine in vg. dw.
£3.00 [ref: 32195]

Delacour, Jean. The Waterfowl of the World. Volumes I to IV.
Pub. Country Life. 1954-64 Four volume set. With 66 colour plates of illustrations by Peter Scott. Hardbacks. All except Vol. I in dws. Some foxing to endpapers, fore-edges and a few plates of Vol. IV o/w. contents in fine condition. Dustwrappers in vg. condition. A vg. set.
£130.00 [ref: 29523]

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Flegg, J. Ed. The British Ornithologists’ Guide to Bird Life.
1st. Ed. Pub. Blandford Press. 1980 pp. 319 with 300 coloured illus. Light foxing to end papers and dw. turn-ins o/w. a fine hdbk. in fine dw.
£6.00 [ref: 29005]

Kirkman, F.B. & Jourdain, F.C.R. British Birds.
Pub. Nelson. 1966 pp.xvii, 209 with 200 colour plates. VG. in good dw.
£15.00 [ref: 30758]

Landsborough Thomson, A. A New Dictionary of Birds.
1st. Pub. Nelson. 1964 pp. 928 with many fine illus. VG. in dw. Still a most useful work.
£18.00 [ref: 25182]

Morrison, P. Bird Habitats of Great Britain and Ireland. A new approach to bird watching.
1st. Pub. Michael Joseph. 1989 pp. 256 with colour illus. Hdbk. Fine in nr. fine dw.
A useful guide to bird watching and nest finding.
£9.00 [ref: 31277]

Newton, A. & Gadow, H. A Dictionary of Birds.
1st. Pub. A.& C. Black. 1893-96 pp.xii, 1088 with engravings. 8vo. Hardback. A handsome copy bound in half morocco, spine a little faded.
£35.00 [ref: 35560]

Ripley, Dillon. Search For The Spiny Babbler. Bird Hunting in Nepal.
1st. Ed. Pub. Victor Gollancz. 1953 pp.viii, 301 with map illustrated end-papers. 8vo. Thor. vg. hardback. With signature of Martin Woodcock (artist and wildlife illustrator) to verso of ffep.
An account of the author’s 1948 expedition to Nepal - an historic first for Nepalese ornithology. It contains detailed descriptions of life in parts of the Kingdom where no Westerner had been before, and gives a rich flavour of daily life in camp and of serious birding in the bush.
£10.00 [ref: 55453]