Auks: an ornithologist's guide.
Poole: Blandford Press, 1987. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Poole: Blandford Press, 1987. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1999. Quarto, 200 colour plates, other illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Every aspect of the Great Auk's natural - and unnatural - history is covered, with special chapters devoted to its life cycle and the years during which it dwindled to extinction. Other chapters concern..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. WAS $70. In this book Jeremy Gaskell pieces together all the important historical data and argues that the extinction of the Great Auk was inextricably bound up with the prevailing social, economic, and political conditions of the eighteenth and..... More
Ottawa: Canadian Wildlife Service, 1981. Octavo, laminated boards, text illustrations. More
London: Academic Press, 1985. Octavo, illustrations, softcover. More
London: R. H. Porter, 1864-1907. Large octavo, portrait, 37 lithographed plates mostly coloured, folding coloured map. Binder's cloth retaining the two printed front wrappers in each volume, top edges gilt, others uncut, a fine copy, scarce. John Wolley (1824-1859) assembled a fine egg collection and was deeply involved, with his..... More