Birds and Ornithology

LONDON, WITHERBY, 1972. FIRST EDITION, NEAR FINE COPY IN LIKE DUSTWRAPPER, NEAT NAME TO FEP. TEG, 400 PAGES, 3 COLOUR PLATES BY ARTHUR SINGER, 24 PHOTOGRAPHS. A VERY NICE COPY.

Englewood, NJ: The Macmillan Co,, 1899. SCARCE as a single issue, Very Good, wrappers worn at spine, rear wrapper stained, internally clean and unmarked. 4 pp. ads, paginated 143-173, 3 pp. ads. . First Edition. Magazine. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Country Life Limited, 1936. Hard cover in original cloth. Published London: Country Life, 1936, second impression of the trade edition. 4to., 9 1/4" x11 3/4", xiii+138pp., illustrated with 16 color plates and 46 black and white plates. Blue cloth with gilt titles. Mild fading/rub to the cloth, ends of spine lightly worn, with a short closed tear at the crown, bit of foxing to frontis, title page, several sheets, and edge of page block, otherwise clean, attractive, binding strong and tight. Very good minus. . Hard. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. 4to.

New York: Golden Press, 1983. Publisher's promotional poster ( 21 3/4"w x 35 3/4"h) marking the publication of the two books illustrated by Singer. Featuring Singer's watercolor and tempera painting title "Great Blue Heron Preening". A poster distributed in limited supply at the ABA trade show in 1983. Near Fine, a few small faint creases. A poster well suited for framing, will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 21 3/4" x 35 3/4".

Meulebeke: Jules Gallez 1989. (Hardcover) 391pp. Very good plus, no dust jacket. Photographs, illustrations, tables, table of contents. The spine is very slightly cocked and the bottom corners are lightly bumped. "Driven by an unending desire to complete the 'History of the Belgian Racing Pigeon,' or at least the better part of it, and yet lacking the energy to bring this fifth part to a good end, I finally realized that there was just too much left out of my books so I set to and completed this fifth and last of the series....In this book, that you now have before you, I went back to the turn of the century and to the first years after the 1914-18 war. The history of a few lofts is too important to be left untold" - from the Foreword. Book about Racing Pigeons. Time Period World War 1. Vol. 5 The History of the Belgian Racing Pigeons. Translated by Ralph H. Wilcox. Locale: Belgium. (Natural History, Birds, Natural History, Pigeons).

Hand-colored lithograph from John James Audubon's first octavo edition of Birds of America published from 1840 to 1844.Sheet size: 6.5 x 10.25 inches.

Cambridge, MA: Nuttall Ornithological Club. Good with no dust jacket; Edges rubbed and worn, some light foxing, owner . names.. First Printing. Hardcover. 1905 and 1920 first printing. Green cloth with deckled fore-edges and bottom edges. 352 pages + fold out map; 196 pages + fold out map. Black and white plates, species lists, appendixes, bibliographies, indexes, and fold out maps. A unique set of these memoirs of the Nuttall Ornithological club volumes III and V featuring signed correspondence from the author and other relevant material laid and pasted in. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

Lion Pub Plc, 1999-10-31. Hardcover. New. 9x6x0. The binding is in good shape. There is very little shelf wear. The pages of this book are clean and unmarked. A good solid copy. FAST SHIPPING & FREE TRACKING!

London: The Linnean Society of London, 1898. First edition. 1898 SCARCE MONOGRAPH ON OWL ANATOMY WITH FINE COLLOTYPE AND LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES. 12 inches tall hardbound, recent blue paper covered boards, blue cloth spine, paper title label to cover, Part I--Pterylography, pp 223-2751 collotype and 5 lithographic plates; Part II--Osteology, pp 1-46, 2 lithographic plates, unmarked and very good. WILLIAM PLANE PYCRAFT (1868 – 1942) was an English osteologist and zoologist. He became a keen observer of all living things, but devoted himself specially to birds. After leaving school, he desired to follow natural history as a profession, and started as a private pupil with the curator of the Leicester Museum, where he learned the art of preserving and preparing animals for study and exhibition. In 1892 he was introduced to Prof, (afterwards Sir) Ray Lankester, who invited him to be his assistant in making preparations for the Oxford University Museum.

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.

Red cloth with a Gilt title to spine. No previous owners' names or other defacements. First printing of the Collins edition.
5.25 x 7.75 in.

Las aves de cuba con 240 ilustraciones primera edicion cultura.s.a.habana cuba 1941 por el padre pelegrin franganillo balboa rarisimo libro sobre el estudio y distribucion de las aves cubanas.escrito por Pelegrín Franganillo Balboa (1873 Molinaseca, >España-1955 La Habana, Cuba) fue un jesuita español que contribuyó significativamente al campo de la entomología y su divulgación, especialmente estudiando los >arácnidos. Su vida científica comenzó con el siglo XX, siendo profesor de Ciencias Naturales en el colegio jesuita "Apóstol Santiago" de Camposancos (A Guardia) entre 1905 y 1909. Allí inició su colección de Arácnidos y sus trabajos de Aracnología.Su labor personal la llevó a cabo en todas las ramas de las ciencias naturales; en lo concerniente a la Aracnología, publicó varios estudios sobre la fauna de >arañas de >España y Portugal que desembocó en un libro manual que las compendiaba: Las Arañas, manual de araneología,2​ que fue referencia de divulgación sobre los… Read More