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]

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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Adams, H.G. & H.B. The Smaller British Birds. With descriptions of their Nests, Eggs, Habits etc.
1st. Ed. Pub. George Bell. 1874 pp.iv, 252 with 16 colour plates of birds by A.F. Lydon and 16 colour plates of eggs. Small 4to. Occ. light spotting o/w., contents fine. Charming, early, pencilled notes to tissue guard of egg plate 16. Original, gilt decorated boards very bright and in thor. vg. condition. A very pleasing copy.
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.
£100.00 [ref: 65145]

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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]

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]

Ali, S. and Ripley, S.D. Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan. Compact Edition.
Pub. O.U.P. 1983 pp.xlii, 737 with 113 colour plates at rear of text, illus. and distribution maps. A vg. copy in sl. bumped dw.
£50.00 [ref: 42793]

Alvarenga, H. Toucans of the Americas.
1st. Ed. Pub. M. Pontual. 2004 pp.120 with superb full-page colour illus. plates throughout. Large 4to. Bilingual in English and Portuguese. Fine hardback in illustrated boards. Out-of-print.
This large-format ornithologists’ guide introduces all 44 species of Toucans native to the Americas, with descriptive passages for each entry and detailed, scientifically-accurate illustrations by renowned nature artist Eduardo Brettas.
£75.00 [ref: 60318]

Anderson Brown, A.F. The Incubation Book.
1st. Ed. 2nd. Imp. Rep. Pub. World Pheasant Assoc. 1987 pp.ix, 246 with b/w. photos. and illus. 8vo. A fine hardback.
Particularly useful for those rearing game birds and waterfowl as well as poultry.
£9.00 [ref: 55298]