Birds of Arabia by MEINERTZHAGEN, Colonel R - 1954

London: Oliver and Boyd, 1954. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 28 cm x 20.5 cm, xiii-624 pp. illustrated in colour and b/w from photographs, paintings, drawings, maps etc Large co loured folding map in rear pocket The contents clean and tight with no inscriptions, armorial bookplate of "kaulback of Dromderrig" to front paste down. Publishers tan cloth binding clean and tight with no splits or chips or marking some light bubling to the cloth in places from glue? bumping to top front upper corner. In the dj, small chip to head of spine, dj now in clear removable sleeve.

1954 OLIVER & BOYD, LONDON. VERY GOOD COPY IN VERY GOOD, BUT SLIGHTLY DAMAGED DUSTWRAP. ILLUSTRATED IN BLACK & WHITE AND COLOUR. 19 COLOUR PLATES, 9 PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES. NUMEROUS TEXT ILLUSTRATIONS. COLOURED MAP IN REAR POCKET. EXTRA POSTAGE WILL BE REQUIRED.

Edinburgh & London Oliver & Boyd 1954 1st edition.. Hardback. 4to. (11 x 8 inches.) In light brown cloth covers lettered in dark green to spine. In original dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. Rubbing to edges. Spine darkened and rubbed. In protective sleeve.) Cloth a little faded at spine with some minor rubbing to edges and corners. Inside pages very clean and tight throughout. Map in rear pocket. A very clean and tight copy. Col. Meinertzhagen served in East Africa with the King's African Rifles from 1902 - 1906. He served in the First World War, saw service in Kenya, Palestine, the War Office and France. Author of "Birds of Egypt" and "Birds of Arabia". 624pp. With 19 colour plates, 9 photographic plates, 53 text-figures, 35 text maps and a folding map in rear pocket.

LONDON, OLIVER AND BOYD, 1954. FIRST EDITION, QUARTO, A BEAUTIFUL COPY REBOUND IN CRUSHED DARK GREEN MOROCCO OVER MARBLED BOARDS, NEW ENDPAPERS. VERY FINE. WITH 19 COLOUR PLATES, 9 PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES 53 TEXT FIGURES, 35 TEXT MAPS AND A COLOURED MAP IN THE REAR POCKET. A WONDERFUL COPY.

London: Henry Sotheran Limited, 1980. Edition De Luxe. Hardcover. Very Good. Dark green half morocco hardback binding with gilt decorated spine. Firm and square, strong joints. Contents clean and tight. No pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Just a small trace of a tiny former owner bookplate at the pastedown. Size: 35cm x 25cm x 7cm. Collation: pp. (2), xiii, 624; complete with 19 tipped-in fine colour plates by G. Lodge, R. Thorburn, and D. M. Reid-Henry, and 9 tipped-in black-and-white photographic plates, also 53 text-figures and 36 maps (1 of which is tinted and folding). Note: this is the De Luxe Limited Edition, of which just 295 copies were printed. This is number 28. As such, a very presentable book, handsomely bound and showing well.

Oliver & Boyd. As New. 1954. Hardcover. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW, THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE, CLEAN, UNMARKED, AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - xiii, (1) 624 pages, 28 plates (19 in color) , 53 text illus. , 35 text maps. -- with a bonus offer-- .

A guide to creating a bird-friendly environment, with tips on feeders, nest boxes, birdbaths, recipes, and bird identification, all pages clean and unmarked

Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.

New York: Grove Press, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Helen Macdonald to special themed bookplate affixed to front free endpaper. Stated first edition, with full number line indicating first printing. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". ix, 261pp. A touch of shelfwear to bright dust jacket. Bound in full black paper over boards, with spine backed in black cloth and lettered in silver. A new, unread signed first edition of this collection of essays about the natural world by Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk. ABOUT VESPER FLIGHTS: From the New York Times bestselling author of H is for Hawk and winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction, comes a transcendent collection of essays about the natural world. Animals don't exist in order to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. Helen Macdonald's bestselling debut H is for Hawk brought the astonishing story of… Read More

New York: Liveright Publishing Company, 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by author in ink at front free endpaper. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 417pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Gulf, a sweeping cultural and natural history of the bald eagle in America. The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you're not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Americans have celebrated it as "majestic" and "noble," yet savaged the living bird behind their national symbol as a malicious predator of livestock and, falsely, a snatcher of babies. Taking us from before the nation's founding through inconceivable resurgences of this enduring all-American species, Jack E. Davis contrasts the… Read More

Old original printing of United States National Museum, `1953, 734 pp, rough page ends, strong binding. There are a very few notations by owner and salutation. This was later printed in 2 volumes. No photos, printed by Unite tates Government Printing Office in Washington D.C. orig. price $4.50.

New York: Doubleday, 1964. Hardcover. Very good. 4to (33 x 24 cm). 288 pp. Signed by Peterson on 2nd blank endpaper, rest of text block tight and unmarked. Black cloth covers with gilt titles to spine and upper, light wear to head/tail of spine,corners and edges. No DJ.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1968. First edition. ILLUSTRATED COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF ADAPTATIONS OF BIRDS FOR BREEDING BY EXPERT ON DARWIN'S FINCHES. 10 inches tall mauve cloth binding, gilt title to spine, unmarked, very good in good price-clipped dust jacket with edge tears. From dust jacket: "The primary aim of this book is an interpretation of the main adaptations of birds for breeding-whether a species lests solitarily or in colonies, whether it is monogamous or has several mates, the lumber of eggs that it lays, the relative size of its eggs, the rate of development of its eggs and young, and the age at which it first breeds. This book is the first comprehensive survey of these points that has been made, so readers can see what is known, and what emains to be discovered, and hence may be stimulated to add to knowledge. However it is much more than a summary of the facts, for these various adaptations have been interpreted in terms of natural selection, and the author has suggested how each of… Read More

Montgomery, R.A: 1986 Bantam-Skylark: The Owl Tree, Choose Your Own Adventure #36. Softcover. Illustrated by Leslie Morrill. Number line CW 098765432. Used. VG condition. 50 pages. 5 ¼ X 7 5/8. Series. Keywords: Choose Your Own Adventure, Bantam-Skylark, Adventure, Series, Collectible. ISBN9780553154498

Rising from sandbars on the Platte River with clarion calls, the sandhill crane (Grus canadensis) feels the urgency of spring migration. Elegant, noble, and spiritual, the sandhill crane is one of the most ancient of all birds. More than a half-million strong, flying in squadrons, these majestic creatures point northward to their Arctic and sub-Arctic breeding ranges. Theirs is an epic story of endurance through the ages. With 153 stunning color photographs, On Ancient Wings presents sandhill cranes in their wild but increasingly compromised habitats today. Over the course of five years, Michael Forsberg documented the tall gray birds in habitats ranging from the Alaskan tundra, to the arid High Plains, from Cuban nature preserves to suburban backyards. With an eye for beauty and an uncommon persistence, the author documents the cranes' challenges to adapt and survive in a rapidly changing natural world. Forsberg argues that humankind, for its own sake, should secure the cranes' place in the future.… Read More

Trade paperback with multiple illustrations, maps, photographs. 340 pages with indexOrnithology and how the banding yields info about birds as carriers of disease.