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8vo. Pp. xii + 308. Bookplate on front endpaper. Dust wrapper spine slightly discoloured, worn at the top. With the wrapper and frontispiece illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe and 14 other black & white illustrations from Bewick's Land Birds. 12 photographic plates and numerous maps + bibliography. A well researched and beautifully produced book.

Four volumes. The fourth edition. 8vo. Re-bound with quarter red cloth, gilt titles, original black boards. A very bright & clean set. Revised & enlarged by Alfred Newton (Vols. 1 & 2) & Howard Saunders (Vols. 3 & 4). With 564 wood engravings.

Cr. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. 156. Very good in chipped dust wrapper with no loss of image or text. Being the experiences of a bird-photographer on two visits to Iceland in search of the Great Northern Diver. 1 coloured, 29 black & white plates and map. With a superb colour print of the Loon which is repeated on the dust wrapper.

Royal 8vo. Cloth. Pp. 175. Fine in slightly chipped dust wrapper. An account of the bird life in Scotland and the Shetlands, with 4 coloured plates --2 paintings by G.E. Lodge and 2 colour prints from Kodachromes by the Author, and 115 black & white plates.

New Naturalist no. 12. Very good in wrapper, one closed tear.

8vo. Pp. xi + 377 + xvi (Index). The second edition. With a folding frontispiece and one text figure. The endpapers are discoloured. Bookplate of previous owner (family crest). Full calf, gilt decorated edges,some shelfwear. Recently re-backed in calf with gilt-ruled raised bands, morocco label on spine with gilt title. Page edges speckled (red). A nice copy in an attractive binding. Subtitled: Describing, Particularly, I. The Present State of Agriculture and Manufacturing. II. The Different Methods of Cultivating the Soil. III. The Success attending some late Experiments on various Graffes, etc. IV. The Prices of Labour and Provisions. V. The State of the Working Poor in those Counties, wherein the Riots were most remarkable. With Desriptions and Copper-Plates, of such newly invented Implements of Husbandry as Deserve to be generally known: interspersed With accounts of the Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, and other Objects worthy of Notice. In Several Letters to a Friend. By the author of… Read More

Roy. 8vo. Pp. xvi + 452. Fine copy. With black & white photographs,tables and text figures.