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REFERENCE ATLAS TO THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA
Washington, D.C: National Geographic, 2003. Quarto, black boards. pp 480. Colour illustrations, more than 700 maps, index. Fine in fine jacket. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Book ID: 46146More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
Shrikes: A Guide to the Shrikes of the World
Edition: First printing
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. Octavo, grey boards. pp 192. Colour and b&w illustrations, index. Fine in fine jacket. 0300073364
Book ID: 46144More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
Sparrows and Buntings: A Guide to the Sparrows and Buntings of North America and the World
Edition: First US printing
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. Tan boards. pp (10), 334. 39 colour plates, b&w illustrations, maps, index. Fine in very nearly fine price-clipped jacket. 0395738733
Book ID: 46348More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
THE AMERICAN EAGLE. A Study in Natural and Civil History
Edition: First printing
New York: Appleton-Century, 1934. Octavo, blue cloth. [2], (xxii), 267 pp + plates. Index, illustrations in text. Spine lightly sunned; ink name of Canadian ornithologist O.E. Devitt; else a fine jacketless copy. 1.5 kg parcel.
Book ID: 20283More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds: Western Region
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. 1993 later printing. Flexible vinyl binding with printed wraparound band. Colour illustrations, index. Fine copy, no owner marks. Excellent guide. 0394414101
Book ID: 46375More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes
Edition: First printing
Vancouver: Greystone Books, 2001. Cloth & boards. pp xvi, 349 + colour & b&w plates by Robert Bateman. Index. Endpaper maps. Fine in fine jacket. 1550548891
Book ID: 46599More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
The Birds of South America: Vol. II, The Suboscine Passerines
Edition: First printing
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994. Thick quarto, green cloth. pp xii, 814 + colour plates. Maps, index. Covers Ovenbirds and Woodcreepers; Antbirds, Gnateaters, and Tapaculos; Tyrant Flycatchers; Manakins and Cotingas. Fine in fine jacket. In print at USD 95.00 (2017). 2.5 kg parcel. 0292770634
Book ID: 46940More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
The Birds of South America: Volume 1: The Oscine Passerines
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. Fifth printing. Red cloth, endpaper maps. pp xvi, 516 + colour plates. Maps, bibliography, index. Fine in fine jacket. Note: 2.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required. 0292707568
Book ID: 46180More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
The Complete Encyclopedia of Birds and Bird Migration
Edison, NJ: Booksales, 2003. Folio, glossy pictorial boards. pp 516. Colour illustrations, index. Fine in nearly fine jacket. 3 kg parcel. 0785816674
Book ID: 46858More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Revised and Enlarged Third Edition
Book ID: 46176More details Price: USD $34.95 USD $31.46
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THE ISLAND. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe RA
Edition: First Edition
London: Deutsch, 1960. Advance uncorrected proof in light blue non-pictorial paper covers. [4], 192, [4] pp. With eleven woodcut illustrations in text (plus map front and rear?) by C.F. Tunnicliffe. Spine lightly sunned, with title hand lettered on spine (which also has the printed title and publisher); light sunning to inner margin of rear cover; minor foxing to page edges; else fine, no owner names. A book about the island of Skokholm off the Pembrokeshire coast (Wales) where the author lived for 13 years. Natural history, bird life. ; Octavo
Book ID: 19076More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
The natural history of the double-crested cormorant (phalacrocorax auritus auritus (Lesson))
Edition: First Canadian Edition
Book ID: 49101More details Price: USD $95.00 USD $85.50 -
The Pheasants of the World: Biology and Natural History
Edition: First printing
Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999. Quarto, cloth & boards. pp xviii, 398 + colour plates. Illustrated, bibliography, index. Fine in fine jacket. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required. 1560988398
Book ID: 45969More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
TITS, NUTHATCHES & TREECREEPERS
Edition: First printing
London: Christopher Helm / A & C Black, 1996. Tall octavo, blue boards. pp (464). Colour and b&w illustrations, index. Fine in fine jacket. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Book ID: 46143More details Price: USD $34.95 USD $31.46 -
Turner on birds: a short and succinct history of the principal birds noticed by Pliny and Aristotle first published by Doctor William Turner, 1544.
Edition: First of this edition
Cambridge, England: At the University Press, 1903. Tall octavo. Olive ribbed cloth, spine stamped in gilt. pp (xx), 223, indexed. Minor rubbing to tips of very lightly darkened spine, else a VG clean & tight copy, no owner names. Evans translated from the original Latin, and added his Notes and the Appendix. Main text in Latin with English version on facing page. Originally published in 1544, this was the first bird book to contain clear descriptions of individual species based on the author's own observations. Turner is considered the father of British ornithology and botany. Garrison-Morton 277.
Book ID: 29136More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
Woodpeckers: An Identification Guide to the Woodpeckers of the World
Edition: First printing
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. Tall octavo, white cloth. pp (x), 406. 64 colours plates, maps, index. Fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. 0395720435
Book ID: 46350More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46