Archbold, R. Robert Bateman. Natural Worlds.
1st. Ed. Pub. Swan Hill Press. 1996 pp.191 with colour and b/w. illus. throughout. Large landscape 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw. Although not inscribed, from the library of ornithologist, artist, illustrator, author and editor Robert Gillmor MBE (purchased by us May 2023). Out-of-print.
In this work Robert Bateman explores in words, sketches and magnificent new paintings the living systems upon which all life depends. From the drama of Canada's rugged west coast, to life and death struggles in the Arctic, Poland's haunting ancient waterways, the serenity of Costa Rica's cloud forests and the vast plains of the Serengeti, each of the `life zones' explored in Natural Worlds reveals the complex relationships between living things and their environments.
£32.50 [ref: 65030]
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Audubon, J.J. The Birds of America.
1st. Ed. thus. Rep. Pub. Nat. Hist. Museum. 2017 pp.448 with 435 coloured plates. Large 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw.
With an introduction by David Allen Sibley.
£40.00 [ref: 63650]
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Audubon, John James. Audubon’s Birds of America. The Royal Octavo Edition.
1st. Ed. Pub. Thunder Bay Press. 1994 pp.32 plus 500 colour plates. Large 8vo. Light dust marks to top of text block, o/w. a fine hardback in fine dw.
This work reproduces all 500 plates from the first edition of the Royal Octavo edition of ‘Birds of America’ produced by Audubon in 1839 “ as would enable every student or lover of nature to place it in his library,”.
£40.00 [ref: 62728]
Baldry, A.L. Drawings of John M. Swan R.A.
1st. Ed. Pub. George Newnes. [1905] pp.vi, 11 with fifty colour and b/w. illus. plates. 4to. Hardback. Occ. light spotting to contents o/w. contents fine. Original decorated boards thor. vg. to nr. fine. From the library of ornithologist, artist, illustrator, author and editor Robert Gillmor MBE with his name written in ink to ffep.
John Macallan Swan RA (9 December 1846 – 14 February 1910) was an English painter and sculptor. He received his art training first in England at the Worcester and Lambeth schools of art and the Royal Academy schools, and subsequently in Paris, in the studios of Jean-Léon Gérôme and Emmanuel Frémiet.
£25.00 [ref: 65049]
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Barrett, H.B. The 19th-century journals & paintings of William Pope.
Pub. M.F. Feheley. 1976 pp.175 with colour illus. Royal 4to. A nr. fine hardback in vg. dw.
Pope was born in Kent (1811) and was attracted to the Americas aged 23. Extensive travel in the NE United States and Upper Canada led to him settling in Ontario. This volume reproduces extracts from his daily journals, supported by copies of his excellent watercolours, artistically comparable to Audubon.
£12.00 [ref: 49377]
Barrett, H.B. The 19th-century journals and paintings of William Pope.
Pub. Feheley. 1976 pp.175 with 36 colour plates. 4to. Fine hardback in thor. vg. to nr. fine dw.
£15.00 [ref: 40422]
Bond, T.J. Birds: The Paintings of Terance James Bond.
1st. Ed. Pub. Athena Press. 1989 pp.87 with fine colour reproductions throughout. Folio. Fine hardback in fine dw. With an article on the beast of Bodmin moor loosely inserted.
This artist plays particular attention to detail. This is the first time his paintings have been collected together and published in book form.
£38.00 [ref: 60959]
Bond, Terance James. A Life in Detail. The Art of Terance James Bond. Wildlife Art Series.
1st. Ed. Pub. Langford Press. 2006 pp.179 illustrated throughout. Royal 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw. Title Number 11 in the series. Signed by Terance James Bond to title-page. Publisher’s 6-page pre-publication colour leaflet loosely inserted.
The fourth published book of artwork by Suffolk-born nature artist Terance James Bond featuring 130 paintings from between 1996 and 2006. Accompanied by a detailed narrative by Bond on his working practices, inspirations and the reasons for his preoccupation with birds and their environments.
£95.00 [ref: 64748]
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Brockie, K. Return to One Man’s Island. Paintings and Sketches from the Isle of May.
1st. Ed. Pub. Birlinn. 2012 pp.175 with colour illustrations throughout. 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw. Out of print. With pre-publication A4 colour Press Information sheet for the book loosely inserted.
Since the publication of ‘One Man’s Island’ in 1984, Brockie has constantly returned to the Isle of May and from April through to October of 2010 he stayed on the island, working intensively to produce an entirely new set of drawings and paintings.
£37.50 [ref: 64752]
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Brockie, Keith. Drawn from Nature.
1st. Ed. Pub. Arlequin Press. 1995 pp.152 with b/w. and colour illus. throughout. 4to. Limited edition of 950 clothbound copies of which this is No. 269, signed by the author. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw. Although not inscribed, from the library of ornithologist, artist, illustrator, author and editor Robert Gillmor MBE (purchased by us May 2023).
A fine volume full of this artist sketches.
£65.00 [ref: 65028]
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