RECENT ORNITHOLOGICAL LITERATURE, 1983-1998, (being a supplement to The Auk, The Emu and The Ibis). {Richard Fitter's copies}

By: N/A

Price: £13.50

Seller ID: 009652

Condition: Good

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A long run of this publication, which rarely appears for sale. A major reference to recent bird taxonomy and research. Only the last issue in this run is actually numbered (issue 75), but I am assuming that what we have here are issues 27 - 75. Publication was, at times, slightly erratic, but I am offering : 1983 (parts 1 - 4), 1984 (1 - 4), 1985 (1 - 4), 1986 (1 - 4), 1987 (1 - 4), 1988 (1 - 4), 1989 (1 - 4), 1990 (1 - 4), 1991 (1 - 4), 1992 (1 - 3), 1994 (1 part), 1995 (2 parts), 1996 (3 parts), 1997 (4 parts), 1998 (1 part). I suspect that these are all actually consecutive, despite the ... View more info

The Birds of the London Area Since 1900

By: A Committee of the London Natural History Society

Price: £26.50

Publisher: London, Collins: 1957

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 015544

Condition: Very Good

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First edition. Illustrated, octavo, pp x, 305, very slight foxing to the fore-edge, otherwise very clean internally, green cloth very slightly marked on the upper cover, the spine perhaps very slightly faded. View more info

The Cuckoo, and Other Bird Mysteries (with letters from the author)

By: Acworth, Bernard

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Eyre & Spottiswoode: 1946

Seller ID: 014025

Condition: Very Good

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Second impression. Slim octavo, pp 202, (i), very clean internally, green cloth in very good condition, in a rather worn and wrinkled dustwrapper which is obviously of wartime economy production. [This copy belonged to the nature writer "Ceres" {= Alison Ross = Alison Esplan}, with her pencilled notes on the dustwrapper and various neat pencil marks in the margins. It also contains three interesting letters from the author {these have been cut in two to facilitate fitting in the book}, and three little pamphlets regarding The Evolution Protest Movement including one by Acworth on Dar... View more info

The Pteridophyta of Iraq. The Family Lythraceae in Iraq. The Genus Plantago in Iraq. Some New records of Lizards to Iraq.Iaq Bird Notes - 1960 {Bulletin of the Iraq Natural History Museum, Volume 1 parts 1,2,3,4 & 6

By: Agnew, A.D.Q.; Zahra Chalabi Ka'bi; Hadag, Emil; Marchant, S. Khalaf, Kamel T.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Baghdad, University of Baghdad: 1961

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 015859

Condition: Good

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Volume 1, parts 1 - 4, & 6. Stapled, as issued, loose in cover, a little worn, unopened, duplicates from University Museum Oxford, with stamps on each title page. [Comprises The Family Lythraceae, The Genus Plantago, the Pteridophyta, Iraq Bird Notes, & Some New Lizards to Iraq.] RARE View more info

Bird Reserves [Richard Fitter's copy]

By: Arnold, E.C.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, H.F. & G. Witherby: 1940

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 013132

Condition: Good

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Illustrated with nine colour plates and 12 black and white plates, large octavo, pp xii, 216, slightly worn throughout, cloth slightly faded and slightly bumped, spine slightly creased, in a poor, torn and repaired dustwrapper. which is, however, largely complete, and now preserved in a plastic cover. [From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter, with his stamp on the front endpaper.] View more info

Subantarctic Campbell Island

By: Bailey, A.M. & Sorenson, J.H.

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Denver Museum of Natural History: 1962

Seller ID: 015593

Condition: Good

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Illustrated, large octavo, pp 47, a photo copy, bound up in card covers. TOGETHER WITH Westerkov - " General description and account of early investigations on the Island, together with a list of scientific references.", pp 30, octavo, photo copied, and bound in card. Very good. View more info

The Exultant Ark - a pictorial tour of animal pleasure

By: Balcombe, Jonathan

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press: 2011

Seller ID: 008638

ISBN: 0520260244

Condition: As New

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Very well illustrated, quarto, pp x, 214, a very good copy in a dustwrapper showing only the very faintest signs of use. [Nature documentaries often depict animal life as a grim struggle for survival, but this visually stunning book opens our eyes to a different, more scientifically up-to-date way of looking at the animal kingdom. In more than one hundred thirty striking images, "The Exultant Ark" celebrates the full range of animal experience with dramatic portraits of animal pleasure ranging from the charismatic and familiar to the obscure and bizarre. These photographs, windows onto... View more info

Discovering Nature in the Maltese Islands

By: Baldacchino, Alfredo E.; Lanfranco, Edwin & Schembri, Patrick J.

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Blata L-Bajda, Merlin Library Ltd: 1990

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 013431

Condition: Very Good

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Illustrated, small slim octavo, pp 104, paperback, covers very slightly faded, otherwise a very good copy. SCARCE. View more info

Notes on the Birds of Kent [Richard Fitter's copy]

By: Balston, R.J.; Shepherd, C.W. & Bartlett, E.

Price: £185.00

Publisher: London, R.H. Porter: 1907

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 013585

Condition: Good

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Illustrated with a photographic frontispiece and eight fine hand-coloured lithographic pates by J. Smit, large thick octavo, pp xx, 465, very slightly age-toned, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, one plate loose, slightly weak internally with a few inner hinges opening but not really cracked, cloth slightly rubbed, very slightly worn at the corners and at the head and tail of the spine, but still quite a good respectable copy. Publication was limited to 300 copies. [From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter, with his signature on the front endpaper and his stamp o... View more info

Birds of the Maltese Archipelago [Richard Fitter's copy]

By: Bannerman, D.A. & Vella-Gaffiero, J.A.

Price: £17.50

Publisher: Valletta, Malta, Museums Department: 1976

Seller ID: 013078

Condition: Good

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Illustrated with line drawings and coloured plates, large thick octavo, pp xxii, 550, one small folding map at the rear (slightly creased), corners of lower cover slightly bumped, (alos affecting the last fifty pages or so), otherwise a very good copy in a sl worn dustwrapper. [From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter, with his stamp on the front endpaper.] View more info

Handbook of the Birds of Cyprus and Migrants of the Middle East

By: Bannerman, David A. & Bannerman, W.M.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd: 1971

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed letter from author

Seller ID: 014761

ISBN: 0050024450

Condition: Very Good

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Illustrated, octavo, pp xvi, 237, very clean internally, blue cloth in very good condition, the duswrapper is a little worn and stretched. [ From the library of the naturalist Alison Ross [= "Ceres" = Alison Esplan, with two signed postcards and two interesting signed letters from David Bannerman(one of them six pages, and both in their original stamped envelopes). View more info

Woodland Birds

By: Barclay-Smith, Phyllis

Price: £8.50

Publisher: Harmondsworth, Penguin Books: 1955

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 009495

Condition: Very Good

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First edition. Small slim 12mo, pp 32, with 16 colour plates by Peter Shepheard, pages very clean, pictorial boards (by the same artist) in very good condition, in a dustwrapper which is not price-clipped and which is showing only the slightest signs of wear. Postage will be reduced. View more info

Le Cabinet de Curiosites de Thoutmosis III -plantes et animaux du "Jardin Botanique de Karnak

By: Beaux, Nathalie

Price: £70.00

Publisher: Leuven, Belgium, Peeters Press: 1990

Seller ID: 008248

ISBN: 9068312685

Condition: Very Good

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Well illustrated, small quarto, pp x, 349, a very good copy in slightly scuffed dustwrapper. View more info

Natural History in Zoological Gardens, being some account ov vertebrated animals, with special reference to those usually to be seen in the Zoological Society's Gardens in London and similar institutions

By: Beddard, Frank E.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Constable & Company: 1909

Seller ID: 009994

Condition: Good

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Second ("cheaper") reissue. With photographic plates and line drawings within the text by Gambier Bolton and Winifred Austin, pp x, 310, uncut, slight adhesion markes on title pages with very tiny loss of the printed surface, contemporary inscription on front endpaper, otherwise very clean internally, red decorated cloth, slightly worn and marked, spine very slightly faded. View more info

Penguins of the Falkland Islands and South America

By: Bingham, Mike

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Stanley, Environmental Research Unit Publications: 2000

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 012366

ISBN: EB00004040

Condition: Very Good

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Well illustrated, tall slim quarto, pp 80, a very good copy in a very slightly worn dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE. View more info

A History of Ornithology (New Naturalist 104)

By: Bircham, Peter

Price: £18.50

Publisher: London, Collins: 2007

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 006464

ISBN: 0007199694

Condition: New

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FIRST EDITION. Illustrated, pp xii, 482, an excellent copy in dustwrapper. [Today the RSPB has over one million members, reflecting the huge interest in birdwatching as a hobby. Over the years the growth in amateur birdwatchers has contributed enormously to our understanding of bird life, behaviour and populations. But what did we know about birds a thousand years ago and how has our understanding developed? Which species did we recognise, and when did people begin to record their sightings? Peter Bircham looks at the history of British ornithology from 1066 to the mid-1970s, exploring along t... View more info