Ornithology from William Chrisant & Sons' Florida Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, FABA

Orange/brown cloth with gilt particulars and a dustjacket. Some wear around jacket and to front cover (see image), but otherwise a bright clean copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements. A limited edition. 9 x 11.5 in

First American edition. Green cloth covered boards with a clipped pictorial dustjacket. Spotting to cloth on covers (see image). Wear to jacket (see image), but otherwise no previous owners' names or other defacements. 5.25 x 7.75 in

Hand colored engraved plate, A Hybrid Bird, by J. F. Miller bound before page 65. Paper covered boards with marbled covers. Wear to corners and some staining to spine with remnants of a label (see image). No previous owners' names or other defacements. 5.25 x 8 in

Rebound in blue cloth with new endpapers. Gilt title to spine. Complete with five black/white engravings, including the frontispiece. Previous owner's pink library stamp to title page, as well as a prior owner's neat inscription to rear fly and name to front fly signed with the author's respects. Overall a clean copy with no further defacements. 6 x 9.25 in

Cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine and a very nice dustjacket. Housed in a beige cloth covered slipcase. Green endpapers. An attractive clean copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements. Please expect the possibility of extra postage as this is a large and heavy book. 11.5 x 16.25 in (29 x 41 cm)

Hand-colored aquatint engraving on J. Whatman Turkey Mill dated 1825. Plate XIX from Audubon's Birds of America, London, 1827-1838. Overall toning (see image). Tape residue causing wavy edges. Matte burn (see image). May require additional postage due to its large size. The page measures 25.25 x 38 in.

Two volumes in one. Bound in early twentieth century half green morocco over green cloth boards. Five raised bands with gilt particulars to spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. From the library of H. Bradley Martin with his modest bookplate to front pastedown. Includes Sotheby's lot-bookmark from the famous sale. As is common, this volume lacks the title preliminaries to… Read more about this item

Blue stapled paper wraps. A total of 16 issues including the complete year of 1930 and 1932, as well as January-June of 1931 and March-April of 1923. Colored frontis plates. No previous owners' names or other defacements. 6.5 x 9.5 in

A hand-colored pictorial title page, as well as 11 additonal hand-colored plates of birds with tissue guards. The scarce fold-out calendar of 1816 to rear is present. Light pink paper covered boards with matching slipcase. All edges gilt. French text. No previous owners' names or other defacements. 3.25 x 4.75 in

Three volume complete set. Paper wraps, two of which are in mylar. Large folding-map to volume III. Nice full page colored plates throughout. Staining to the front cover of Vol. I and top edge (see image). No previous owners' names or other defacements. 9.5 x 13.25 in each

Blue cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine and a dustjacket. Foxing to top edge, but otherwise a clean copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements. 6.25 x 9.25 in

Full yellow cloth with a dustjacket wrapped in mylar. Minor ink notation to corner of front fly, but otherwise a nice clean copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements. 6.25 x 9.24 in

Full red cloth with gilt particulars. Complete with twenty-nine hand-colored plates with tissue guards, in addition to two frontispieces. Top edge gilt. No previous owners' names or other defacements. 4.5 x 6.75 in

Full red cloth with gilt particulars. A total of 34 plates, in which 33 are hand-colored. Occastional thumbing, but plates remain bright with tissue guards. Top edge gilt. Minor stain to rear board (see image). No previous owners' names or other defacements. Scarce. 4.5 x 6.75 in

Red cloth with a Gilt title to spine. Second printing of the Collins edition. Extensive notes to front/rear fly. 5.25 x 7.75 in.

Full green cloth with gilt particulars to front cover and spine. Inscribed by the author in pencil to title page dated 1871 signed "by the author". Complete with 15 plates by Frank Bott. Minor spotting to first few pages and wear to corners (see image). Clean copy with no previous owners' names or defacements.

A total of 32 loose vivid plates suitable for framing. Each page measures 10 x 12 in. All housed in a paper wrapped album and matching slipcase. Tear to paper on tail of spine. Remnants of previous owner's inscription to slipcase, along with wear and toning to paper of slipcase (see images). No previous owners' names or other markings and… Read more about this item

Red cloth with gilt particulars to front cover and spine. Complete with eight colored plates and tissue guards. All edges gilt. Ex-library defaced by Macalester College with the usual library stamps throughout and pastedowns to rear not affecting plates. Wear to tail of spine and edges of boards (see image). Previous owner's pastedown to front. Multiple pages of advertisements to… Read more about this item

Original folio hand-colored engraving from Saverio Manetti's Storia Naturale Degli Uccelli or A Natural History of Birds, where "Manetti seems in these pictures to be depicting the human comedy, the habits and mannerisms of contemporary Italian society..." in the images of his birds. A nice clean copy. The page measures 13 3/4" by 18 1/4" inches with the plate measuring… Read more about this item

Two volume set in green cloth bound by H. Brown with gilt titles to spines. A total of 42 chromolithographed plates. Speckled edges. Vol. I regards partridges, pheasants, and sand-grouse, with Vol. II continuing with pheasants and then megapodes, curassows, hoatzins, and bustard-quails. Previous owner's name in ink to front endpapers dated 1955. Stain to front cover of Vol. II… Read more about this item