The home-life of the Osprey.
London: Witherby & Co, 1911. Quarto, 32 pages of tipped-in photographs, stamp, publisher's cloth, some wear. More
BIRDS - Raptors
The Mississippi Kite: portrait of a southern hawk.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. 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, fine set in the slipcase. More
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
African birds of prey.
London: Collins, 1970. Octavo, photographs, maps, chipped dustwrapper. More
The Barn Owl.
Calton: Poyser, 1982. Octavo, text illustrations, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Peregrine Falcon populations: their management and recovery.
Boise: Peregrine Fund, 1988. Octavo, photographs, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Hawks in focus: a study of Australia's birds of prey.
Mildura: Jaclin, 1981. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Hawks in focus: a study of Australia's birds of prey.
Mildura: Jaclin, 1981. Quarto, colour photographs, signature, slightly worn dustwrapper. More
In condor country.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. Octavo, , fine copy in dustwrapper. Eastern San Luis Obispo County is an arid region of rolling grassland midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles that has historically been a favorite foraging ground for the rarest of North American birds - the Californian Condor. This book..... More
All my life with hunting birds.
Sudbury: Neville Spearman, 1982. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The birds of prey of Australia: a field guide to Australian raptors.
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998. Octavo, 26 colour plates, colour photographs, softcover. This guide is particularly useful because of the difficulty of identifying raptors. Illustrated with 26 plates from the Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic birds, along with other illustrations depicting flight, soaring, display, feeding, hunting, and courtship..... More
The birds of prey of Australia: a field guide.
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, (2012. second edition). Octavo, 26 colour plates, colour photographs, text illustrations, maps, softcover. An illustrated field guide to diurnal raptors, a bird group that many people find among the most difficult birds to identify. Iconic and popular birds, raptors are important ecologically as well as in legislation..... More
The raptors of Europe and the Middle East: a handbook of field identification.
London: Poyser, (2003. reprint). Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs, text illustrations, some sunning and minor internal tape marks. A complete and up-to-date guide for the recognition of the diurnal raptors, with 700 colour photographs and nearly 100 line drawings. Also available in paperback [stock id 27183]. More
Classical falconry: a treatise on rook and crow hawking.
Blaine: Hancock House, 2004. Quarto, colour photographs, other illustrations, laminated boards. This is the first book dedicated solely to flights out of the hood. Based on his experiences managing the Northumberland Crow Falcons, Nick Fox has pulled together the theory and practice of classical falconry in modern times. For the..... More
Collins guide to the birds of prey of Britain and Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
London: Collins, 1984. Octavo, colour photographs, laminated boards, More
Falconry and hawking.
London: Batsford, (1982. fourth edition). Octavo, photographs, dustwrapper. More
Vulture: nature's ghastly gourmet.
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1997. Octavo, colour photographs. A fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Birds of prey of the world.
New York: Potter, 1964. Quarto, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Birds of prey of the world.
New York: Bonanza Books, (1974. reprint). Quarto, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Falconry in literature: the symbolism of Falconry in English literature from Chaucer to Marvell.
Blaine: Hancock House, 2004. Octavo, black and white illustrations, laminated boards. Through falconry imagery the author takes the reader through a wide range of many poets and dramatists of the Late Mediaeval and Renaissance areas. The symbolism and many references on this sport in literature gives the reader a good..... More
Falcons and falconry.
Poole: Blandford Press, (1978. reprint). Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
The return of the Sea Eagle.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
H is for hawk.
London: Vintage, 2014. Octavo, fine copy in dustwrapper. Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. In her youth, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer, learning the arcane terminology and reading all the classic books. Years later, when her father died and she was struck deeply by grief..... More