The birds of the British Isles, volume eight.
London: Oliver and Boyd, 1959. Quarto, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Oliver and Boyd, 1959. Quarto, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Oliver and Boyd, 1962. Quarto, colour plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Oliver and Boyd, 1961. Quarto, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Oliver and Boyd, 1958. Quarto, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Oliver and Boyd, 1957. Quarto, 26 colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Oliver and Boyd, 1961. Quarto, colour plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Oliver & Boyd, 1963. Quarto, colour plates and text illustrations by D. M. Reid Henry. Bookplate in each volume, very good set in lightly worn dustwrappers. Volume four is titled History of the birds of Cape Verde Islands. Freight will be extra. More
London: Oliver and Boyd, 1953-1963. Quarto, colour plates by George E. Lodge, fine set in dustwrappers. Freight will be extra. David Armitage Bannerman (1886-1979) was a British ornithologist, curator of birds at the British Museum of Natural history, and a prolific writer of multi volume ornithological tomes... More
Calton: Poyser, 1990. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Oliver and Boyd, 1953. Quarto, coloured frontispieces, photographs, fine set in dustwrappers. More
London: Harrier Publications, 1994. Octavo, paperback, The aim of this new work is two-fold: to provide an up-to-date working checklist for the Palearctic region; and to make a sensible contribution to the on-going debate about which English names for birds should be adopted as standard. More
London: R. E. Bewick, 1847. Octavo, woodcuts, the bookplate of Walter Froggatt, worn publisher's cloth. Volume one: History and description of land birds. Volume two: History and description of water birds. More
London: Carlisle Natural History Society, 1943. Octavo, photographs, bookplate. More
London: Frederick Warne, (1955. reprint). Octavo, colour plates, bookplate, clipped dustwrapper. New edition 1941. Reprinted with new introductory chapters 1952. More
London: S. T. Freemantle, (1900. Quarto, lavishly illustrated by Keulemans and others. Publisher's vellum with armorial stamp, bookplate, limited to 150 numbered copies signed by the editor and artists, some tissue guards oxidised otherwise a handsome set. First published in 1789, Gilbert White's Selbourne is one of the most celebrated..... More
London: Brumby & Clarke, [1896-1899]. Quarto, 342 lithographed plates (24 coloured) by Frohawk. Handsome publisher's gilt decorated yellow cloth, all edges gilt, bookplate, some minor wear otherwise a very good set. Anker 88; Nissen IVB 167; Zimmer, p. 119. More
London: Transactions of the Carlisle Natural History Society, 1954. Octavo, photographs, signature, bookplate. More
London: Hobby Books, 1984. Octavo, paperback, photographs, bookplate. More
London: Hampshire Ornithological Society, 1993. Oblong format, colour photographs, maps, fine cop in dustwrapper. More
London: Chatto & Windus, 2005. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Birds Britannica is neither an identification guide nor a behavioural study (though both these subjects enter its field). It covers cultural links, social history, birds as food, ecology, the lore and language of birds, myths, art, literature and..... More
London: Dulau and Co., 1913. Octavo, tables. Publisher's blue cloth, floral endpapers, sunned, few flecks, a good copy. More
London: Hamlyn, 1978. Octavo, colour photographs, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: Frederick Warne and Company, (1933. fourth edition). Octavo, photographs and other illustrations, a very good set in chipped, unclipped dustwrappers. More
London: Frederick Warne, (1975. second edition), Octavo, colour plates, price clipped dustwrapper. Originally published as a three-volume work. The colour plates are by Archibald Thorburn and others. More
London: Frederick Warne, (1950. reprint). Duodecimo, colour plates, photographs, very good copy in slightly brown unclipped dustwrappers. The Wayside and Woodland series. First series: 1950, seventh edition. Second series: 1950, eighth edition. Third series: 1950, fourth edition. More