Eagles, hawks and falcons of the world.
London: Country Life, 1968. Quarto, text illustrations, colour plates by eight artists, including Roger Tory Peterson, David Reid-Henry and Guy Coheleach, fine set in slightly blemished slipcase. More
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Eagles, hawks and falcons of the world.
London: Spring Books, (1989. reprint). Quarto, colour plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. Originally published as a two volume set, this is the single volume reprint. More
Eagles, hawks and falcons of the world.
London: Country Life, (1979. reprint). Quarto, colour plates by eight artists, including Roger Tory Peterson, David Reid-Henry and Guy Coheleach. Publisher's paper covered box, a fine set. The classic modern book on birds of prey. More
Eagles, hawks and falcons of the world.
London: Country Life, 1968. Quarto, text illustrations, colour plates by eight artists, including Roger Tory Peterson, David Reid-Henry and Guy Coheleach, a mint set in slipcase, rare in this condition. More
The birds of Africa, volume one: Ostrich to falcons.
London: Academic Press, (1982. first edition). Quarto, colour plates, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
History and range expansion of Peregrine falcons in the Thule area, northwest Greenland.
Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. This book covers the discovery and history of the northernmost breeding population of peregrine falcons in the world, located near the Thule Air Base in northwest Greenland. Drawing on thirteen years of research, the authors present a comprehensive set of..... More
Peregrine Falcon populations: their management and recovery.
New York: Peregrine Fund, 1988. Octavo, photographs, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Australian falcons: ecology, behaviour and conservation.
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2022. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. WAS $50. The author provides a 30-year update of knowledge on these six species, as well as a falcon-like hawk, the Black-shouldered Kite. This book is based partly on the author’s field studies, as well as being a supplement to the Handbook..... More
Birds of prey of Australia: a field guide.
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, (2019. third edition), Octavo, paperback, colour photographs and illustrations, text illustrations, maps. This fully updated Third Edition of the popular and award-winning field guide Birds of Prey of Australia contains two sections: a field guide with distribution maps, detailed illustrations and information on identification; and a handbook..... More
Falcon fever: a falconer in the twenty-first century.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. Octavo, dustwrapper, WAS $40. What is so compelling about falconry? Tim Gallagher mines his lifelong obsession with Falcons for an answer in this engaging volume interweaving memoir, history, and travelogue. An entire subculture of the sport exists outside the mainstream of American society, consisting of obsessed..... More
The peregrine falcon in Greenland observing an endangered species.
Kansas City: University of Missouri Press, 1981. Octavo, photographs, softcover. More
The Peregrine returns: the art and architecture of an urban raptor recovery.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Oblong format, dustwrapper, colour photographs and illustrations. Peregrine falcons have their share of claims to fame. With a diving speed of over two hundred miles per hour, these birds of prey are the fastest animals on earth or in the sky, and they are..... More
Eagles hawks and falcons of Australia.
Melbourne: Nelson, (1984. first edition). Quarto, colour photographs by the author, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Eagles hawks and falcons of Australia.
Melbourne: Nelson, (1984. first edition). Quarto, colour photographs by the author, dustwrapper. "For Allan and Margaret [McEvey], with very best wishes... David Hollands October 1984" More
Eagles hawks and falcons of Australia.
Melbourne: Nelson, (1984. first edition). Quarto, colour photographs by the author, "for Claude [Austin] who showed me the wonders of the Australian bush David Hollands September 1984", ex-library stamp of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Falcons and falconry.
London: Blandford Press, (1978. reprint). Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Australian falcons: the secret lives of our fastest birds of prey.
Sydney: New Holland Publishers, 2024. Quarto, laminated boards, colour illustrations. More than 50 years in the making, Australian Falcons is a beautifully illustrated volume of personal observations, interesting encounters with raptors, and detailed descriptions of behaviour that will inform and delight the reader. The late great Peter Slater needs no..... More
A bird in the hand: celebrated falconers of the past.
London: Debretts Peerage, 1980. Octavo, colour plates, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
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