Birds and Ornithology
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British Birds; A Naturalists Sketch Book; British Mammals; Game Birds and Wild Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland,
THORBURN, Archibald.Original price $9,631.00 - Original price $9,631.00Original price$9,631.00$9,631.00 - $9,631.00Current price $9,631.00| /A Fine collection of limited edition titles by the acclaimed artist archibald Thorburn F.Z.S (1860 -1935), a Scottish artist renowned for his accu...
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[A Monograph of the Nectariniidae, or Family of Sun-Birds].
[SHELLEY, George Ernest].Original price $20,000.00 - Original price $20,000.00Original price$20,000.00$20,000.00 - $20,000.00Current price $20,000.00| /One of only 20 large paper copies. Extremely rare large paper copy of this 'excellent monograph of an interesting family of birds' (Zimmer).The sta...
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Description de l'Egypte.
COMMISSION DES SCIENCES ET ARTS D'EGYPTEOriginal price $250,394.00 - Original price $250,394.00Original price$250,394.00$250,394.00 - $250,394.00Current price $250,394.00| /Complete set with fine English provenance. First edition of one of the most ambitious scientific, historical, artistic and publishing projects - a ...
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A Monograph of the Nectariniidae, or Family of Sunbirds.
SHELLEY, George Ernest.Original price $14,767.00 - Original price $14,767.00Original price$14,767.00$14,767.00 - $14,767.00Current price $14,767.00| /Attractive Keulemans plates. first edition of this important monograph, one of 250 copies only. Amongst the most beautiful of bird monographs, the ...
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A Group of Four Toucans.
BARRABAND, Jacques.Original price $16,051.00 - Original price $16,051.00Original price$16,051.00$16,051.00 - $16,051.00Current price $16,051.00| /A fine set of these beautiful plates, from the first edition of the Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rolliers, suivie de celle des...
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Lord’s entire new system of ornithology.
LORD, Thomas.Original price $38,523.00 - Original price $38,523.00Original price$38,523.00$38,523.00 - $38,523.00Current price $38,523.00| /An exceedingly scarce book. Of the few copies in existence only a handful are known with the full complement of 114 engravings. ESTC lists only BL,...
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Zoological Illustrations,
SWAINSON, William.Original price $16,051.00 - Original price $16,051.00Original price$16,051.00$16,051.00 - $16,051.00Current price $16,051.00| /First bird book with lithograph plates. A handsome set of Swainson, the first bird book and one of earliest natural history works to be illustrated...
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American Ornithology;
WILSON, Alexander.Original price $964.00 - Original price $964.00Original price$964.00$964.00 - $964.00Current price $964.00| /An attractive copy of Wilson's classic work on American Ornithology.3 vols, 8vo; engraved portrait frontispiece, 103 colour plates after the autho...
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A Monograph of the Coraciidae
DRESSER, Henry Eeles.Original price $11,000.00 - Original price $11,000.00Original price$11,000.00$11,000.00 - $11,000.00Current price $11,000.00| /[ornithology] one of 250 copies. A scarce monograph published in an edition of 250 copies only.Keulemans was the last of the great bird illustrator...
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Four Pheasants
WOLF, Joseph (artist).Original price $12,841.00 - Original price $12,841.00Original price$12,841.00$12,841.00 - $12,841.00Current price $12,841.00| /A group of four beautiful lithographs of pheasants taken from the Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of the Pheasants, by Daniel Giroud Elliot...
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Two Guinea Fowl
WOLF, Joseph (artist).Original price $4,495.00 - Original price $4,495.00Original price$4,495.00$4,495.00 - $4,495.00Current price $4,495.00| /Two beautiful lithographs of guinea fowl taken from the Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of the Pheasants, by Daniel Giroud Elliot. Elliot, ...
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Four Pheasants
WOLF, Joseph (artist).Original price $12,841.00 - Original price $12,841.00Original price$12,841.00$12,841.00 - $12,841.00Current price $12,841.00| /A group of four beautiful lithographs of pheasants taken from the Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of the Pheasants, by Daniel Giroud Elliot...
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A history of the rarer British birds [with] A catalogue of British birds.
EYTON, T.C.Original price $835.00 - Original price $835.00Original price$835.00$835.00 - $835.00Current price $835.00| /Eyton's Rarer British birds was intended as an addenda to Bewick's British Birds. The engravings are based on specimens in the author's collection...
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Birds of La Plata.
HUDSON, W. H.Original price $450.00 - Original price $450.00Original price$450.00$450.00 - $450.00Current price $450.00| /Hudson's text of Birds of La Plata first appeared in Argentine Ornithology, a scarce work which Hudson wrote in conjunction with Philip Sclater. T...
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A history of British birds [With] A history of British fishes.
YARRELL, William.Original price $3,211.00 - Original price $3,211.00Original price$3,211.00$3,211.00 - $3,211.00Current price $3,211.00| /Finely bound. A finely bound set of Yarrell's classic works on the birds and fish of Great Britain. Yarrell (1784 – 1856) was a noted English zoolo...
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Rufous Backed Egret.
LEAR, Edward and John GOULD.Original price $4,816.00 - Original price $4,816.00Original price$4,816.00$4,816.00 - $4,816.00Current price $4,816.00| /"The most remarkable bird drawings ever made". Edward Lear is one of the greatest ornithological artists of all time. His contributions to John Gou...
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Rough notes on the birds observed during twenty-five years' shooting and collecting in the British Islands.
BOOTH, Edward Thomas.Original price $8,989.00 - Original price $8,989.00Original price$8,989.00$8,989.00 - $8,989.00Current price $8,989.00| /Edward Booth was a wealthy bird-watcher and sportsman who stuffed his own specimens and mounted them in their natural surroundings in glass cases....
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The British Warblers.
SWEET, Robert.Original price $1,606.00 - Original price $1,606.00Original price$1,606.00$1,606.00 - $1,606.00Current price $1,606.00| /'Born at Cockington near Torquay, Devonshire, England in 1783, Sweet worked as a gardener from the age of sixteen, and became foreman or partner i...
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A late 19th/early 20th century glazed case containing a Common Kestrel
[TAXIDERMY].Original price $964.00 - Original price $964.00Original price$964.00$964.00 - $964.00Current price $964.00| /Presented in a glass case, overall size 535 x 550 x 320 mm.
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A Monograph of the Odontophorinae, or Partridges of America.
GOULD, John.Original price $25,040.00 - Original price $25,040.00Original price$25,040.00$25,040.00 - $25,040.00Current price $25,040.00| /In original parts. Rare example in original parts of John Gould's Partridges of America.Gould was inspired to undertake this study by the sight of ...
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Narrative of a visit to Somaliland in 1897,
LORT PHILLIPS, Ethelbert.Original price $366.00 - Original price $366.00Original price$366.00$366.00 - $366.00Current price $366.00| /Ethelbert Edward Lort Phillips (1857-1944) led a botanical expedition from Berbera to the Golis mountains in Somaliland before returning to Somali...
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British Game Birds and Wildfowl.
MORRIS, Beverley.Original price $2,248.00 - Original price $2,248.00Original price$2,248.00$2,248.00 - $2,248.00Current price $2,248.00| /A finely bound copy of this beautifully illustrated work on British game birds. Beverley Morris was a younger brother of Francis Morris, the famou...
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The Ornithology of Francis Willughby
Willughby, Francis; RAY, John (editor).Original price $4,750.00 - Original price $4,750.00Original price$4,750.00$4,750.00 - $4,750.00Current price $4,750.00| /A fundamental work for systematic ornithology. The most celebrated early English ornithology. 'It is difficult to underestimate what enormous labou...
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