Alpheraky, Sergius. The Geese of Europe and Asia. Being the description of most of the Old World species.
1st. Ed. Pub. Rowland Ward. 1905 pp.viii, 198 with 24 colour chromolithograph plates of geese and their bills by F.W. Frohawk and coloured frontispiece by Dr. P.P. Sushkin. Royal 4to. In original green cloth boards, lightly rubbed, o/w. thor. vg. Minor, scattered foxing to contents, which are o/w. in fine condition. TEG. Bookplate of Arthur B. Duncan to front paste-down. A very pleasing copy.
Dedication copy from Rowland Ward which reads ‘Captain Stanley Flower, with Rowland Ward[s] Kind Regards 1906’ to ffep. Captain Flower (1871-1946) was Director of the Cairo Zoological Gardens, Egypt between 1898 - 1924.
£525.00 [ref: 50785]

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Baker, E.C. Stuart. The Indian Ducks and their Allies.
1st. Ed. Pub. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1908 pp.xii, 292 plus 30 hand finished chromolithograph plates and additional illustrated title page. Imperial 8vo. A minor amount of spotting, largely confined to text o/w. contents in fine condition. In original publishers binding of half morocco leather with green boards; spine gently and evenly faded o/w. in fine condition. Limited to 1,200 copies. A nice example.
Edward Charles Stuart Baker worked as a police officer in Assam. In his spare time, he studied and collected Indian birds. Through these pursuits he amassed nearly 50,000 birds eggs, some of which he donated to the Natural History Museum. The text is a mixture of anecdotes, references to the key people and works of the period and in-depth insight into the birds. The highly talented artists Gronvold, Lodge and Keulemans contributed the plates for this work.
£250.00 [ref: 34471]

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Buchanan, Robert. The Life and Adventures of John James Audubon, the Naturalist. Edited, from materials collected by his widow.
1st. Ed. Pub. Sampson Low, London. 1868 pp.vii, 366, [1], 24 page publisher’s catalogue. 8vo. A small amount of foxing to last few pages of the publishers catalogue at rear of book, to the tissue guard facing the frontis. and to the fore-edges of the text block, o/w. contents very clean and in fine condition. In original green cloth boards, with gilt decoration and lettering to spine, all in thor. vg. condition. A thoroughly vg. copy of the 1st edition.
£400.00 [ref: 47767]

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Dunn, Robert. The Ornithologist’s Guide to The Islands of Orkney and Shetland.
1st. Ed. Pub. by the Author. 1837 pp.x, [2], 128 with lithographic plate and 2 folding maps. 8vo. With plate and map bound at rear. Contents very clean and in near fine condition. Bound in original blue cloth boards in near fine condition. Scarce.
This book describes Hull taxidermist and natural history dealer Robert Dunn’s visits to Orkney and Shetland in the years 1831-35, and includes a record of the birds he encountered. We no longer look on birds in the way that Dunn did - he was a serious collector of birds and their eggs. For the facsimile of this work, published by Peregrine Books (2007), Martin Limbert wrote that it is ‘a window into those times, an essential reference for anyone, whether birder, naturalist, historian or island-goer, interested in the Northern Isles of seventeen decades ago’.
£625.00 [ref: 53591]

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Forshaw, J.M. & Cooper, W.T. Parrots of the World.
Pub. Doubleday. 1973 pp, 584 with fine illus. by W.T. Cooper plus figs. & numerous distribution maps. Folio. Hardback. A vg. copy in vg. dw.
£175.00 [ref: 44569]

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Lilford, Lord. Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands.
1st. Ed. Pub. R.H. Porter, London. 1885-1897 Seven volume set. With photogravure portrait frontis., and 422 chromolithograph or hand-coloured plates. Royal 8vo. Volume 4 with additional plate drawn by Archibald Thorburn (Mullens and Swann). Minor amount of foxing and off-setting, o/w. contents in fine condition. TEG. Original half morocco leather over marbled boards bound by R.H. Porter. Raised bands and lettered in gilt to spine. All in very pleasing, near fine condition (neat restoration to front bottom corner of Vol. 7; evenly, lightly faded spines, very gently rubbed).
The majority of the plates are by Archibald Thorburn or J.G. Keulemans, with the remainder executed by G.E. Lodge and W. Foster.
£3,850.00 [ref: 54369]

Martin, Brian and Robjent, Richard. The Pheasant. Studies in Words and Pictures.
1st. Ed. Pub. Fine Sporting Interests, Holt. 1995 pp.121 with 24 full-page colour plates, tipped-in by hand onto plate sunk pages, and over 60 sepia sketches. Royal 4to. Handsomely bound in half red morocco leather; with lettering & tooling in 22 carat gold leaf and raised bands to spine. TEG. Cockerel hand-marbled end-papers. Mint condition. Matching buckram slip-case blocked in gold. Mint condition. Contains an original signed sepia sketch of a Pheasant by Richard Robjent. Signed by author Brian Martin. A limited edition of 270 copies of which this is No.199. With purpose made, labelled and numbered, publishers box.
£725.00 [ref: 49559]

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McKelvie, Colin Laurie and Robjent, Richard. The Partridge. Studies in Words and Pictures.
1st. Ed. Pub. Fine Sporting Interests, Holt. 1993 pp.117 with 24 full-page colour plates, tipped-in by hand onto plate sunk pages, and over 60 sepia sketches. Royal 4to. Handsomely bound in half blue morocco leather; with lettering & tooling in 22 carat gold leaf and raised bands to spine. TEG. Cockerel hand-marbled end-papers. Mint condition. Matching buckram slip-case blocked in gold. Mint condition. Contains an original signed sepia sketch of a Partridge by Richard Robjent. Signed by author Colin McKelvie. A limited edition of 270 copies of which this is No.199. With purpose made, labelled and numbered, publishers box.
£725.00 [ref: 49574]

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Morris, Beverley R. British Game Birds and Wildfowl.
1st. Ed. Pub. Groombridge and Sons. 1855 pp.iv, 252 with 60 fine hand coloured plates. Royal 4to. Hardback. Bound in original half red morocco binding with gilt motif on front board and gilt lettering to spine. Boards lightly marked, with a lightly coloured, circular mark on rear board. Professionally rebacked preserving most of the original spine. With some restoration to corners of the boards. AEG. Sporadic foxing to text pages, including the title page, contents and verso of some plates. A handful of plates have some scattered foxing, c.20 have one or two minor marks with the rest beautifully clean. Internal hinges strengthened. Scarce. This is the preferred first edition.
This volume was written by the younger brother of the Rev. F.O. Morris ( author of ‘A History of British Birds’ and others). He was trained in the Medical Profession and was a keen naturalist like his brother. From 1851- 1855 he edited ‘The Naturalist’, being succeeded in the editorship by his brother in 1856. He emigrated to America in 1856 when his interest in British Ornithology appeared to end. There were 4 editions of this work of which this is the first.
£1,500.00 [ref: 46413]

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Morris, F.O. Rev. A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds.
2nd. Ed. Pub. George Bell & Son. 1875 Three volume set with 232 chromolithographed colour plates. Crown 4to. Very minor amount of foxing, largely confined to tissue guards and o/w. contents are in fine condition. Original binding in near fine condition. With neat inscription dated 1886 to ffep’s of each volume. A most pleasing set that would be very hard to better.
£700.00 [ref: 50783]

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