Description:
LONDON: George Bell & Sons, 1870 A nice set of the second edition of Morris's History of British Birds. In 6 volumes with original decorative cloth bindings and 365 hand coloured plates as called for. The bindings are all clean with bright gilt pictures of birds to each front board and gilt titles and decoration to spine. There is some wear: volume I has some cloth splitting at the hinges and splitting at the rear endpaper with rubbing to corners; volumes II, III and IV have very slight pulling to top and bottom of spine and a little rubbing at corners; volume V has very small splits at the top and bottom of the spine; and volume VI has a 1 inch tear at the top of the spine (with no loss) and scuffing at the corners. Internally all have the original endpapers; the first section including the frontispiece is becoming loose on volumes I, II, and III; volume IV is sound but the stitching is looser than on the others. There is a little spotting to some plates and text pages but in general the…
Read More A natural history of English song-birds, including such foreign birds as are usually brought over and esteemed for their singing: Their proper Management, Diseases, and Cures. To which are added, figures of the Cock, Hen, and Egg of each species, exactly copied from nature, by Mr. Eleazar Albin, and curiously engraven on copper. with several improvements, under the article of Canary-Birds by [ALBIN, Eleazar, fl. 1713-1759] - 1779
by [ALBIN, Eleazar, fl. 1713-1759]
![A natural history of English song-birds, including such foreign birds as are usually brought over and esteemed for their singing: Their proper Management, Diseases, and Cures. To which are added, figures of the Cock, Hen, and Egg of each species, exactly copied from nature, by Mr. Eleazar Albin, and curiously engraven on copper. with several improvements, under the article of Canary-Birds by [ALBIN, Eleazar, fl. 1713-1759] - 1779](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/567/630/372630567.0.b.2.jpg)
A natural history of English song-birds, including such foreign birds as are usually brought over and esteemed for their singing: Their proper Management, Diseases, and Cures. To which are added, figures of the Cock, Hen, and Egg of each species, exactly copied from nature, by Mr. Eleazar Albin, and curiously engraven on copper. with several improvements, under the article of Canary-Birds
by [ALBIN, Eleazar, fl. 1713-1759]
- Used
- Fine
London: printed for T. Lowndes, No 77, in Fleet-Street, and S. Bladon, in Paternoster-Row, 1779. Half-Calf. Fine. Small 8vo: [4],107,[3]pp, with a frontispiece and 23 further full-page copper-engraved plates, each showing the cock, hen, and (often) egg of a different songbird. Without the final leaf of advertisements. Recently rebound to period style by Fitterer in half calf, spine in six compartments between raised bands, black morocco lettering piece gilt, marbled boards, end papers renewed. A Fine copy, inside and out, the many plates in rich, dark impressions. Zimmer, p. 3 (incorrectly identifying the format as 12mo). Lowndes 25. Anker 7. Mullens, p. 14 (noting that this New Edition appeared with both colored and uncolored plates). Albin illustrated (and probably wrote) this book on English song birds, which first appeared in 1737; ESTC records seven editions, culminating with this "new edition corrected." Along with denizens of hedgerow and hillside, the author offered information on a domestic favorite in a lengthy section on canaries, here newly expanded, including advice on choosing a bird. Originally produced in a small edition, available in both a luxury colored issue and an issue with black-and-white plates, this later edition features mirror images of the plates from the second edition. It also claims to be the first such work to depict birds' eggs. Albin's opus, A Natural History of Birds (1731), was the first ornithological text to use colored plates, and made him one of the first successful compilers of profusely illustrated natural history books for the general reader. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.
-
Bookseller
Fine Editions Ltd
(US)
- Format/Binding Half-Calf
- Book Condition Used - Fine
- Quantity Available 1
- Publisher printed for T. Lowndes, No 77, in Fleet-Street, and S. Bladon, in Paternoster-Row
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1779
- Keywords Canaries. Birds—England.
More Photos
A History of British Birds
by F O Morris (Reverend)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- N
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Birsay, Orkney, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
€815.86
Show Details
Item Price
€815.86
![[Caxton Club] Fantasy In A Wood-Block Or What Occurred When John James Audubon, the Naturalist,...](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/837/993/504993837.0.m.jpg)
More Photos
[Caxton Club] Fantasy In A Wood-Block Or What Occurred When John James Audubon, the Naturalist, Visited with Thomas Bewick, The Wood-Engraver in the year 1827. Being a narrative by Gordon R. Williams, together with a print taken by R. Hunter Middleton from the wood-block which Mr. Bewick was engraving at the time
by WILLIAMS, Gordon R.; [Thomas Bewick]
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Condition
- As New
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
- Item Price
-
€60.49
Show Details
Description:
Chicago: Caxton Club, 1972. Limited Edition. Hardcover. As New. Tall, slim 8vo: [4],12,[6]pp, including full-page reproductions from photographs, plus the Bewick wood-block print. Decorated gold-and-tan paper-backed boards, black linen spine, printed paper label, medium-brown laid end papers. Pristine. One of five variant bindings (collect them all!) deposited in the Newberry Library. Limited to 500 unnumbered copies, designed by Greer Allen, composed in Monotype Bell, letterpress printed at Press of A. Colish, Mount Vernon, NY; binding by Publishers Book Binding, Long Island City, NY; text on Curtis Rag of the Curtis Paper Co. of Newark, Delaware; paper by the John A. Manning Co. of Troy, NY; decorated cover papers by Birgitte Cramer of Copenhagen, Denmark; end papers are Miliani Ingres from Fabriano, Italy. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and…
Read More Item Price
€60.49
![[Photobook] [Field Guide] The Birds of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire: a Contribution to the...](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/602/282/508282602.0.m.0.jpg)
More Photos
[Photobook] [Field Guide] The Birds of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire: a Contribution to the Natural History of the Two Counties
by KENNEDY, Alexander W. M. Clark (1851-1894)
- Used
- Fine
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Binding
- Unknown
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
- Item Price
-
€542.54
Show Details
Description:
Eton / London: Ingalton and Drake / Simpkin, Marshall, 1868. Decorative Cloth. Fine. First Edition of apparently the first field guide to birds to use photographs as illustrations. 8vo: xiv,[2],232pp, with four hand-colored and varnished albumen photographs of stuffed birds mounted on heavy card stock. ("It was impossible at the time to photograph live birds due to the absence of the telephoto lens and extremely sensitive plates that would permit short exposures." Goldschmidt & Naef) Publisher's forest-green pebble-grained cloth, spine and upper cover with bird vignettes in gilt, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, chocolate coated end papers. A Fine, tight, square copy, clean, crisp text, the photographs vibrant, with deep, rich colors. Provenance: Book plate of Henry Neville Gladstone (third son of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone). Binder's ticket of James Burn & Co., Kirby St., to rear paste-down. Gernsheim 436. Truthful Lens 96. Margolis & Moss 24. The author was only age 16 when he…
Read More Item Price
€542.54
More Photos
Coloured Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds, with Descriptions of Their Nests and Nidification (Two Volumes)
by Hewitson, William C.
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Third Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Chanute, Kansas, United States
- Item Price
-
€708.90
Show Details
Description:
London: John Van Voorst, 1856. 531 pages, plus 145 (and two additional) colored plates, in two volumes. Half bound in dark green polished leather with raised spine bands and gilt lettering and decoration. Pebbled cloth over the boards. Marbled end leaves and edges. Heraldic book plate on front paste down of volume I. A little very light foxing and a few very light scuffs. A lovely set!. Third Edition. Half Leather - Hardbound. Very Good+/No Jacket.
Item Price
€708.90
More Photos
The Birds of Tunisia: Being a History of the Birds Found in the Regency of Tunis (Two Volumes)
by Whitaker, J. [Joseph] I. S.
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Chanute, Kansas, United States
- Item Price
-
€945.20
Show Details
Description:
London: R. H. Porter, 1905. First Edition . Half Leather - Hardbound. Good+/No Dust Jacket. Royal 8vo. Number 63 of a limited edition of 250 copies. 294 pages, plus 13 hand colored plates after H. Gronvold, one photogravure, one photographic plate, and one folding color map; 410 pages, plus two hand colored plates after H. Gronvold, one photogravure, one photographic plate, and one folding color map. Collated and complete. Half bound with Moroccan leather over spine and corners, and marbled paper over boards. Raised spine bands and gilt lettering on spine. Top edge of text blocks are gilded. Zimmer (1926) details the volumes as "a manual of Tunisian ornithology. Synonymy and short descriptions of the species are given, with observations on plumages and other variations and with notes on distribution and habits. A short bibliography is included and the introduction discusses the topography of the area in question..." Covers are rubbed and scuffed. Lettering on spine remains…
Read More Item Price
€945.20
Birds of Ireland
by Anglesea, Maryn &, Dunbar, Wendy
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Three quarter brown calf, marbled boards, raised bands decorated in gilt. Fine in fine matching marbled slipcase
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
ardsley, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
€756.16
Show Details
Description:
Dundonald: Blackstaff Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter brown calf, marbled boards, raised bands decorated in gilt. Fine in fine matching marbled slipcase. Parker, Richard Dunscombe. 113 pages. 43 x 60 cm. Limited edition 166 of 250, signed by Editor and Designer. 40 mounted color plates reproducing the original watercolour paintings originally discovered in 1976 by the Editor in the recesses of the Ulster Museum, Belfast. Bound for over a century in a flat box, the original 170 watercolours measuring 24 1/2 x 30 inches were painted on white wove paper over pencil outlines. Besides the remarkable plates, Martyn Anglesea describes the history of Ornithological painting, it's place in history, as well as the little known, until now, history of Parker and his extended family. Anglesea states, "Parker's paintings are quite unique as a contribution to nineteenth-century Irish Ornithology and with their Irish topographical backgrounds, for a collection of great value." Including notes…
Read More Item Price
€756.16
More Photos
A History of British Birds
by F O Morris (Reverend)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- N
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Birsay, Orkney, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
€815.86
Show Details
Description:
LONDON: George Bell & Sons, 1870 A nice set of the second edition of Morris's History of British Birds. In 6 volumes with original decorative cloth bindings and 365 hand coloured plates as called for. The bindings are all clean with bright gilt pictures of birds to each front board and gilt titles and decoration to spine. There is some wear: volume I has some cloth splitting at the hinges and splitting at the rear endpaper with rubbing to corners; volumes II, III and IV have very slight pulling to top and bottom of spine and a little rubbing at corners; volume V has very small splits at the top and bottom of the spine; and volume VI has a 1 inch tear at the top of the spine (with no loss) and scuffing at the corners. Internally all have the original endpapers; the first section including the frontispiece is becoming loose on volumes I, II, and III; volume IV is sound but the stitching is looser than on the others. There is a little spotting to some plates and text pages but in general the…
Read More Item Price
€815.86
More Photos
[Caxton Club] Fantasy In A Wood-Block Or What Occurred When John James Audubon, the Naturalist, Visited with Thomas Bewick, The Wood-Engraver in the year 1827. Being a narrative by Gordon R. Williams, together with a print taken by R. Hunter Middleton from the wood-block which Mr. Bewick was engraving at the time
by WILLIAMS, Gordon R.; [Thomas Bewick]
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Condition
- As New
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
- Item Price
-
€60.49
Show Details
Description:
Chicago: Caxton Club, 1972. Limited Edition. Hardcover. As New. Tall, slim 8vo: [4],12,[6]pp, including full-page reproductions from photographs, plus the Bewick wood-block print. Decorated gold-and-tan paper-backed boards, black linen spine, printed paper label, medium-brown laid end papers. Pristine. One of five variant bindings (collect them all!) deposited in the Newberry Library. Limited to 500 unnumbered copies, designed by Greer Allen, composed in Monotype Bell, letterpress printed at Press of A. Colish, Mount Vernon, NY; binding by Publishers Book Binding, Long Island City, NY; text on Curtis Rag of the Curtis Paper Co. of Newark, Delaware; paper by the John A. Manning Co. of Troy, NY; decorated cover papers by Birgitte Cramer of Copenhagen, Denmark; end papers are Miliani Ingres from Fabriano, Italy. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and…
Read More Item Price
€60.49
More Photos
[Photobook] [Field Guide] The Birds of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire: a Contribution to the Natural History of the Two Counties
by KENNEDY, Alexander W. M. Clark (1851-1894)
- Used
- Fine
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Binding
- Unknown
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
- Item Price
-
€542.54
Show Details
Description:
Eton / London: Ingalton and Drake / Simpkin, Marshall, 1868. Decorative Cloth. Fine. First Edition of apparently the first field guide to birds to use photographs as illustrations. 8vo: xiv,[2],232pp, with four hand-colored and varnished albumen photographs of stuffed birds mounted on heavy card stock. ("It was impossible at the time to photograph live birds due to the absence of the telephoto lens and extremely sensitive plates that would permit short exposures." Goldschmidt & Naef) Publisher's forest-green pebble-grained cloth, spine and upper cover with bird vignettes in gilt, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, chocolate coated end papers. A Fine, tight, square copy, clean, crisp text, the photographs vibrant, with deep, rich colors. Provenance: Book plate of Henry Neville Gladstone (third son of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone). Binder's ticket of James Burn & Co., Kirby St., to rear paste-down. Gernsheim 436. Truthful Lens 96. Margolis & Moss 24. The author was only age 16 when he…
Read More Item Price
€542.54
AMONG BRITISH BIRDS IN THEIR NESTING HAUNTS
by LEE O.A.J.:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
BAKEWELL, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
€591.20
Show Details
Description:
EDINBURGH, DAVID DOUGLAS, 1897. FIRST EDITION, 4 VOLUMES. FOLIO. VERY GOOD CONDITION IN HALF LEATHER BINDING BY CHARLES DAY OF LONDON. ILLUSTRATED BY THE CAMERA BY OSWIN A J LEE. EACH VOLUME HAS 40 FULL SIZE BLACK AND WHITE PLATES OF BIRDS, THEIR EGGS AND NESTS AND VIGNETTES BY THE AUTHOR. SOME WEAR TO THE LEATHER AND THE SPINE OF VOLUME 2 IS SLIGHTLY SPLIT. INTERNALLY AN EXCEPTIONALLY CLEAN SET. A SCARCE ITEM.
Item Price
€591.20
A Natural History of Birds: Illustrated With a Hundred and One Copper Plates, Curiously Engraven From the Life; v. 3
by Eleazar Fl 1713-1759 Albin
- New
- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781022432277 / 1022432273
- Quantity Available
- 10
- Seller
-
Southport, Merseyside, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
€29.69
Show Details
Description:
Paperback / softback. New.
Item Price
€29.69
A Natural History of Birds: Illustrated With a Hundred and One Copper Plates, Curiously Engraven From the Life; v. 1
by Eleazar Fl 1713-1759 Albin
- New
- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781022463073 / 1022463071
- Quantity Available
- 10
- Seller
-
Southport, Merseyside, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
€31.74
Show Details
Description:
Paperback / softback. New.
Item Price
€31.74
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
A Natural History of Birds: Illustrated With a Hundred and One Copper Plates, Curiously Engraven From the Life; v. 3
by Eleazar Fl 1713-1759 Albin
- New
- Hardcover
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781020482311 / 1020482311
- Quantity Available
- 10
- Seller
-
Southport, Merseyside, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
€40.26
Show Details
Description:
Hardback. New.
Item Price
€40.26
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
A Natural History of Birds: Illustrated With a Hundred and One Copper Plates, Curiously Engraven From the Life; v. 1
by Eleazar Fl 1713-1759 Albin
- New
- Hardcover
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781020513121 / 1020513128
- Quantity Available
- 10
- Seller
-
Southport, Merseyside, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
€41.50
Show Details
Description:
Hardback. New.
Item Price
€41.50
More Photos
North American Birdfeeder Handbook
by Robert Burton forward Stephen W Kress
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780789403377 / 0789403374
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
- Item Price
-
€16.07
Show Details
Description:
A guide to creating a bird-friendly environment, with tips on feeders, nest boxes, birdbaths, recipes, and bird identification, all pages clean and unmarked
Item Price
€16.07
![Vesper Flights: New and Collected Essays [SIGNED FIRST EDITION]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/737/362/1380362737.0.m.jpg)
More Photos
Vesper Flights: New and Collected Essays [SIGNED FIRST EDITION]
by Macdonald, Helen
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780802128812 / 0802128815
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Seller
-
Carrollton, Georgia, United States
- Item Price
-
€26.47
Show Details
Description:
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 Item Price
€26.47
More Photos
The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird SIGNED FIRST EDITION
by Davis, Jack E
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Used - Very good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very good +
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781631495250 / 1631495259
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Seller
-
Carrollton, Georgia, United States
- Item Price
-
€28.36
Show Details
Description:
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 Item Price
€28.36
The Polynesian Triangle
by Berry, Erick & Best, Herbert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Salem, Oregon, United States
- Item Price
-
€47.26€28.36Save €20.00!
Show Details
Description:
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.
Item Price
€47.26€28.36
Save €20.00
!
More Photos
Life Histories of North American Wood Warblers: Order Paseriformes, Bulletin 203
by Arthur Cleveland Bent
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Used - VG
- Edition
- 1st
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
- Item Price
-
€30.25
Show Details
Description:
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.
Item Price
€30.25
More Photos
World of Birds
by James Fisher; Roger Tory Peterson
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Used - Very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Jupiter , Florida, United States
- Item Price
-
€33.08
Show Details
Description:
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.
Item Price
€33.08
More Photos
Ecological Adaptations for Breeding in Birds
by Lack, David
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
North Garden, Virginia, United States
- Item Price
-
€37.81
Show Details
Description:
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 Item Price
€37.81
More Photos
A Natural History of American Birds of Eastern and Central North America
by Forbush, Edward Howe; May, John Bichard
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Revised
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Arrington, Virginia, United States
- Item Price
-
€39.70
Show Details
Description:
Houghton Mifflin Compay Boston, 1939. Revised. Hardcover. Very Good. 1939. Revised and Abridged with the Addition of More Than One Hundred Species. Very good red cloth hardcover without dust jacket. Edge wear. Previous owner's name on ffep. Illustrated in color by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Allan Brooks and Roger Tory Peterson.
Item Price
€39.70
On Ancient Wings: The Sandhill Cranes of North America
by Michael Forsberg
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Edition
- first
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
- Item Price
-
€42.53
Show Details
Description:
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 Item Price
€42.53
More Photos
Bird Banding
by Elliot McClure
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- Second Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Orange, Virginia, United States
- Item Price
-
€42.53
Show Details
Description:
Trade paperback with multiple illustrations, maps, photographs. 340 pages with indexOrnithology and how the banding yields info about birds as carriers of disease.
Item Price
€42.53