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]

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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Dixon, C. Among the Birds in Northern Shires.
1st. Ed. Pub. Blackie & Son. 1900 pp.303 with colour frontis., and b/w. illus. by Charles Whymper. 8vo Hardback. TEG. Minor foxing to first and last few pages, o/w. contents fine. Original red cloth boards with gilt lettering in vg. plus condition.
In his introduction, Dixon said his book ‘must be regarded as a popular introduction to the bird-life of our northern shires’. Considers birds in Yorkshire, North Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Northumbria, Lancashire, parts of the Lowlands and the Highlands of Scotland.
£15.00 [ref: 58210]

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]

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]

Thomson, A. Landsborough (Ed). A New Dictionary of Birds.
Thomas Nelson, 1964. Pp.927 with 17 pages of col. & 32 pages of b/w. plates, as well as numerous line drawings & figs. Front cover ring-marked; bright, tight copy, in rubbed & worn dw.
£18.00 [ref: 21995]