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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

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 ...
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The Birds of the London Area Since 1900

By: A Committee of the London Natural History Society

Price: £26.50

Publisher: London, Collins: 1957

Seller ID: 015544

Condition: Very Good

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.
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The Common Birds of Bangkok

By: Aagaard, C.J.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Copenhagen, Chr. Backhausen: 1930

Seller ID: 002389

Illustrated with monochrome photos of dead specimens, large 8vo, pp 239, green cloth, covers soiled and slightly warped, front cover hinge cracking, fore-edge slightly soiled and thumbed, internally suprisingly clean, lacking the plate on the front of the upper cover. Uncommon, but poor condition and therefore priced accordingly. [The die from the cloth tends to come off on one's hands !!]
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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

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...
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Image for 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

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

Seller ID: 015859

Condition: Good

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
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The Roseate Spoonbill (Richard Fitter's copy)

By: Allen, Robert Porter

Price: £7.50

Publisher: New York, Dover Publications, Inc.: 1966

Seller ID: 004177

(1942). Dover reprint, 1966, illustrated, pp xx, 142, paperback. From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter.
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Studies of Birds and Animals of South America (with extra plate)

By: Amuchastegui, Axel (text by Helmut Sick)

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, Tryon Gallery in association with George Rainbird: 1967

Seller ID: 016507

Binding: Quarter leather

Condition: Very Good

Very well illustrated with 24 fine colour plates, plus an extra coloured lithograph placed before the half-title, pp 63, bound in blue quarter morocco and marbled boards, the printing on the title page is slightly smudged (no doubt in production), otherwise this is a very bright copy with its original glassine dustcover, and in the original slipcase which is a bit worn.
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Bird Reserves [Richard Fitter's copy]

By: Arnold, E.C.

Price: £20.00

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

Seller ID: 013132

Condition: Good

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.]
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A Guide to the Nests, Eggs, and Nestlings of North American Birds (second edition)

By: Baicich, Paul J. & Harrison, Colin J.O.

Price: £8.35

Publisher: London, Academic Press: 1997

Seller ID: 002215

ISBN: 0120728311

Well illustrated with colour illustrations and photos and line drawings, 8vo, pp.347, paperback. The covers are slightly marked and creased, there is a tiny mark on the fore-edge, but otherwise this is a good copy of a thorough, species-by-species guide.
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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

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.
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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

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...
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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

Seller ID: 013431

Condition: Very Good

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

Seller ID: 013585

Condition: Good

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...
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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

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.]
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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

Seller ID: 014761

ISBN: 0050024450

Condition: Very Good

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).
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Garden Birds

By: Barclay-Smith, Phyllis

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, King Penguin: 1952

Seller ID: 008845

Binding: Pictorial boards

Condition: Very Good

1952 reprint. 20 colour plates by John Gould, slim 12mo, pp 36, very clean internally, pictorial boards very slightly age-toned and marked. [Postage will be much reduced]
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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

Well illustrated, small quarto, pp x, 349, a very good copy in slightly scuffed dustwrapper.
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Image for 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

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

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.
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Penguins of the Falkland Islands and South America

By: Bingham, Mike

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Stanley, Environmental Research Unit Publications: 2000

Seller ID: 012366

ISBN: EB00004040

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, tall slim quarto, pp 80, a very good copy in a very slightly worn dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE.
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A History of Ornithology (New Naturalist 104)

By: Bircham, Peter

Price: £18.50

Publisher: London, Collins: 2007

Seller ID: 006464

ISBN: 0007199694

Condition: New

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...
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