Farnborough: Author, 1884-1886. Small folio, 27 handcoloured plates by Keulemans. Modern blue half morocco and blue cloth, raised bands, publisher's wrappers retained, all contained in a handsome blue solander box; a few occasional spots but otherwise a fine copy. Henry Eeles Dresser (1838-1915) was a successful and wealthy English businessman... More about A monograph of the Meropidae, or family of the Bee-eaters

Washington: Academy of Sciences, Monograph No. 1, 1948. Octavo, photographs. Publisher's green cloth, fine copy. More about The parasitic cuckoos of Africa

Boston: David R. Godine, 1977. Small folio, 41 colour plates by J. Fenwick Lansdowne, bookplate, fine copy in fine dustwrapper. More about Rails of the world: a monograph of the family Rallidae

London: British Museum (Natural History), 1892. Octavo, 17 chromolithographs, mostly by Keulemans. Publisher's cloth, library sticker on spine and library pocket on lower paste-down, no library stamps, partly unopened, a very good copy. Volume 27 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's 27 volume Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 1874-1898. More about Catalogue of the Picariæ in the Collection of the British Museum. Coraciæ (contin.) and...

London: Readers' Union, 1961. Octavo, text illustrations, dustwrapper. More about My year with the woodpeckers

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