Search Results: the birds of burma by smythies bertram

Edinburgh & London: Oliver and Boyd. 668 pages, 31 colour plates plus fold-out map to rear endpaper. Front hinge cracket o/w binding intact. Dustwrapper a little edge-worn and chipped to spine o/w in good condition. Some foxing to prelims, endpapers, map and outer page edges, contents unaffected. Light toning to pages. Waterstain to frontispiece and title page o/w contents clean and unmarked. Fore and bottom edge untrimmed. Heavy volume (1.77 kg) - Overseas orders will require additional postage. . Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 1953.

Edinburgh: Oliver And Boyd, 1953. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Attractively illustrated with 31 colour plates and bar some minor foxing, in VG order throughout. Fold-out map to rear. Smart dark green boards with gilt titling to spine. VG unclipped d/j with tipped on colour illustration to front and light wear only to edges. 8vo. xliii, 668pp

Nimrod Press Ltd, 1986. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 3rd Edition. Revised edition. Near fine book and jacket. .

Oliver and Boyd. good. . 1953 2nd revised edition, with lightly chipped dustjacket, corners slightly bumped, clean copy, no markings, feint foxing to pageblock, binding tight, Professional booksellers since 1981 . 1953. Hardcover.

London: Oliver and Boyd, 1953. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. A very nice copy in a very smart, clean, price-clipped jacket. Size: Octavo . Category: Animals & Birds; .

Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1953 Second, revised edition, including new preface. HB. Dark green cloth, gilt title to spine, and pictorial dustjacket. xxxix, 668pp. With 31 excellent colour plates painted by Commander Hughes, with titled guard leaves, including frontispiece, and folding map at back. Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. Covers and pages clean, light foxing to ffront closed edges, and light dusting top closed edges. Bookplate to front pastedown (no name). Jacket clean, has been protected with adhesive clear , neatly done (previous owner or perhaps publisher).

oliver and boyd 1953 london. super octavo green cloth boards, xliii + 668pp + fldg map at rear, illus VG in VG d/w

Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good. pp668 Mountaineer George Band's "treasured" copy of this comprehensive, well illustrated guide to the Birds of Burma with laid in personal letter on the death of a friend, Moko Rahman, who had borrowed this book many years before. The book is bound in fresh green cloth with gilt titles, nicks to the spine ends, fore edge lightly foxed. Internally very fresh with 31 colour plates by A M Hughes. The final fold out map is torn out but complete. In a very good dust jacket, rubbed to the spine ends, with an attractive cover illustration. Extra postage charges may apply as this is a heavy volume. From the collection of English mountaineer George Band, the youngest member of the successful team which conquered Mount Everest in 1953. Band was President of the Mountaineering Club at Queen's College, Cambridge and his exceptional Alpine record caught the eye of John Hunt, who put him in charge of radio equipment on the Everest expedition.… Read More

Kota Kinabalu: Natural History Publications (Borneo), 2001. Hardcover. New/new. This edition was the last one of this classic ornithological work updated by the author before his death. The country is a haven for bird watchers with nearly a thousand species recorded, which is striking for a country of this size. The colour plates of the original have been re-photographed for this edition. 601 pages with a bibliography and index. Weight: 2.5kg Post free within Malaysia but will incur additional postage charges when posted elsewhere.

THE BIRDS OF BURMA, Bertram Smythies -Oliver & Boyd, London, Second edn., 1953, VG+, original green cloth with chipped but overall VG dustjacket, 650 pages, 100's colour plates plus fold-out map of Burma, previous owner's signature on fep - still the definitive work on the birds of Burma & SE Asia.
THIS item is heavy and may require extra postage when sent internationally outside New Zealand. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED.

Oliver and Boyd, London and Edinburgh 1953, 2nd (revised) edition, hb, dw, 8vo, with 31 colour plates by Commander A. M. Hughes, dw chipped, cloth with some wear, internally vg.

London: Oliver & Boyd. 31 colour plates by Commander Hughes. 668 pages including index with folding map at end. A very nice example indeed of this useful monograph. . Very Good. Cloth. Second Edition. 1953.

Endinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1953. Undetermined. fine. 2nd revised edition. [xliii] 668pp. Quarto. Publisher's green cloth; spint title in gilt, corners lightly bumped. Illustrated dust jacket, unclipped; small notation in ink to spine of jacket. Textblock edges untrimmed. Colour frontis; 30 further colour plates from paintings, folding map at rear. A magnificent copy; bright and beautifully illustrated. fine Originally printed in an extremely limited edition in 1940 in Rangoon. A detailed study of the species of Burma, with beautifully rendered illustrations by Commander A. Hughes of the Colonial Forestry Service. Scarce in this condition and jacket. 1953

Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1953. Second (revised) edition. 31 color plates, folding map at rear. xliii, 668 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Green cloth. Fine, in fine dust jacket with pictorial paste-down. Bookplate removed, not obtrusive. Second (revised) edition. 31 color plates, folding map at rear. xliii, 668 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo.