Ornithology
AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES: John James Audubon. The Birds of America. The Property of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences.
New York: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1987. Auction catalogue for the sale in New York, September 14 and 15, 1987. Coloured frontispiece and profusely illustrated both in colour and black & white. 4to, pp.253:[29], softcover; slight chipping and creasing to top of spine, corners slightly bumped; internally, very slight chipping to fore-edge of three pages, else very good. This sale comprised 435 lots; price list loosely inserted.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 2481
BAKER, E. C. STUART: The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Birds - Volume V (Second edition).
London : Taylor & Francis, 1928. 6 plates, of which 5 coloured. 9vo (9 1.4 x 6 1/2 inches), 467-pages, original maroon cloth; damp affecting lower margin of covers and endpapers, text and plates unaffected however.
£20.00
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GASPERETTI, J & P: Birds of Saudi Arabia. A Note on Arabian Ornithology - Two Endangered Species. Reprinted from "Fauna of Saudi Arabia" Vol. 3, 1981.
Reprinted from "Fauna of Saudi Arabia" Vol. 3, 1981. 4to (11 x 8 1/2 inches), pages: 435-440. Original printed card wrappers; fine.
£15.00
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MAVROGORDATO, J.G: A Falcon in the Field. A Treatise on the Training and Flying of Falcons. With Illustrations in colour by D.M. Henry and G.E. Lodge.
Knightly Vernon, London, 1966. First edition. Coloured plates with lettered guards. 4to (10 x 7 1/2 inches), 123-pages. Original yellow cloth; very good indeed in slightly edge creased but very good dust jacket.
£220.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19768
PINTO, OLIVERIO MARIO DE OLIVEIRA: Ornitologia Brasiliense. Catalogo descritivo e ilustrado das Aves do Brasil. Primeiro volume. Parte introdutoria e Familias Rheidae a Cuculidae.
Sao Paulo: Departamento de Zoologia da Secretaria da Agricultura, 1964. 25 coloured plates. Folio, pp.182:(1), original cloth backed boards, no dustwrapper.
Spine bumped, creased and rubbed, boards foxed and browned along edges, and extremely bumped and rubbed at corners (with loss of surface); internally, joint partly broken following title-leaf. Numbered "590" on verso of title.
£35.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 4944