The birds of paradise and bowerbirds.
London: New Burlington Books, (1987. reprint). Quarto, colour plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
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Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds in the Collection of the British Museum. Coliomorphae: part five, containing the families Paridae and Laniidae (Titmice and Shrikes) and Certhiomorphae (Creepers and Nuthatches).
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1883. Octavo, nine handcoloured plates by Smit. Publisher's cloth, some wear, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps. Volume eight from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More
Dogs, jackals, wolves, and foxes: a monograph of the Canidae.
London: R H Porter, 1890. Small quarto, 45 handcoloured lithographs by J. G. Keulemans, text illustrations. Modern half brown morocco (Period Binders of Bath), top edge gilt and other edges uncut, a fine copy with text and plates crisp and clean. St. George Jackson Mivart (1827-1900) was an active British..... More
Catalogue of the Psittaci, or parrots in the collection of the British Museum.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1898. Octavo, 18 chromolithographic plates by Keulemans. Publisher's brown cloth, partly unopened, apart from a library pocket and a small paper library stamp on the bottom of the spine, a near fine copy. Volume 20 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in..... More
Catalogue of the Picariae in the Collection of the British Museum. Upupae and Trochili ... [and] Coraciae ...
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1892. Octavo, 14 chromolithograph plates by Keulemans. Publisher's cloth, two small library stamps of the Royal Society of Victoria, the ownership signature of J. A. Kershaw (ornithologist of the Horn Expedition), a fine copy. Volume 16 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds..... More
Catalogue of the Picariea in the Collection of the British Museum. Scansores and Coccyges, containing the families Rhamphastidae, Galbulidae and Bucconidae ... and the families Indicatoridae, Capitonidae, Cuclidae, and Musophagidae.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1891. Octavo, 13 chromolithographic plates by Smit and Keulemans. Publisher's cloth, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps, partly unopened . Volume 19 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More
Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds in the Collection of the British Museum. Fringilliformes: part two, containing the families Coerebidae, Tanagridae and Icteridae.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1886. Octavo, 18 handcoloured plates by Smit. Publisher's cloth, some wear, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps. Volume eleven from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More
Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds in the Collection of the British Museum. Oligomyodae, in the families Tyrannidae, Oxyrhamphidae, Pipridae, Cotingidae, Phytotomidae, Philepittidae, Pittidae, Xenicidae, and Eurylemidae.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1888. Octavo, 26 chromolithographic plates by Smit. Publisher's cloth, some wear, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps, partly unopened. Volume 14 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More
Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds in the Collection of the British Museum. Tracheophonae, or the families Dendrocolaptidae, Formicariidae, Conopophagidae and Pteroptochidae.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1890. Octavo, 20 chromolithographic plates by Smit. Publisher's cloth, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps, partly unopened. Volume 15 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More
The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes and their allies.
London: Henry Sotheran & Co., [1887-1888]. Quarto, 21 handcoloured lithographs by Keulemans. Later half green morocco, all edges uncut and partly unopened, the signature of Lord Lilford, a few spots otherwise a very good copy. The first, and superior, issue of the only monograph on the order Charadriiformes. Both first..... More
Catalogue of the Fulicariae (Rallidae and Heliornithidae) and Alectorides (Aramadae, Eurypygidae, Mesitidae, Rhinochetidae, Gruidae, Psophidae, and Otidae) in the Collection of the British Museum [Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, volume 23].
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1894. Octavo, 9 chromolithograph plates by Keulemans. Publisher's cloth, fine copy. Volume 18 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More
Catalogue of the Fulicariae (Rallidae and Heliornithidae) and Alectorides (Aramadae, Eurypygidae, Mesitidae, Rhinochetidae, Gruidae, Psophidae, and Otidae) in the Collection of the British Museum [Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, volume 23].
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1894. Octavo, 9 chromolithograph plates by Keulemans. Publisher's cloth, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps except for RAOU in red pencil on front endpaper, partly unopened, a very good copy. Volume 18 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume..... More
Catalogue of the Limicolae in the Collection of the British Museum.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1896. Octavo, 7 chromolithograph plates by Keulemans. Publisher's cloth, some wear, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps, partly unopened. Volume 24 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More
Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds in the Collection of the British Museum. Coliomorphae: part one, containing the families Campophagidae and Muscicapidae.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1879. Octavo, 14 handcoloured plates by Keulemans. Publisher's cloth, some wear, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps. Volume four from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More
Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds in the Collection of the British Museum. Coliomorphae: part four, containing the concluding portion of the family Timeliidae (Babbling-thrushes)
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1883. Octavo, 15 handcoloured plates by Smit. Publisher's cloth, some wear, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps. Volume seven from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More
Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds in the Collection of the British Museum. Fringilliformes: part one, containing the families Dicaeidae, Hirundinidae, Ampleidae, Mniotiltidae and Motacillidae.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1885. Octavo, twelve handcoloured plates by Keulemans. Publisher's cloth, some wear, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps. Volume ten from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More
Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds in the Collection of the British Museum. Fringilliformes: part three, containing the family Fringillidae.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1888. Octavo, 16 handcoloured plates by Hart. Publisher's cloth, some wear, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps. Volume twelve from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More
Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds in the Collection of the British Museum. Sturniformes, containing the families Artamidae, Sturnidae, Ploceidae, Alaudidae. Also the families Atrichidae and Menuridae.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1890. Octavo, 15 chromolithographic plates by Smit. Publisher's cloth, some wear, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps. Volume 13 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More
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