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 $9,287.00 - Original price $9,287.00Original price$9,287.00$9,287.00 - $9,287.00Current price $9,287.00| /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 $20,430.00 - Original price $20,430.00Original price$20,430.00$20,430.00 - $20,430.00Current price $20,430.00| /Extremely rare large paper copy of this 'excellent monograph of an interesting family of birds' (Zimmer).The standard quarto edition of the work w...
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Description de l'Egypte.
COMMISSION DES SCIENCES ET ARTS D'EGYPTEOriginal price $241,445.00 - Original price $241,445.00Original price$241,445.00$241,445.00 - $241,445.00Current price $241,445.00| /First edition of one of the most ambitious scientific, historical, artistic and publishing projects - a complete set with fine English provenance....
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A Monograph of the Nectariniidae, or Family of Sunbirds.
SHELLEY, George Ernest.Original price $14,240.00 - Original price $14,240.00Original price$14,240.00$14,240.00 - $14,240.00Current price $14,240.00| /first edition of this important monograph, one of 250 copies only. Amongst the most beautiful of bird monographs, the Nectariniidae illustrates 13...
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A Group of Four Toucans.
BARRABAND, Jacques.Original price $15,478.00 - Original price $15,478.00Original price$15,478.00$15,478.00 - $15,478.00Current price $15,478.00| /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 $37,146.00 - Original price $37,146.00Original price$37,146.00$37,146.00 - $37,146.00Current price $37,146.00| /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 $15,478.00 - Original price $15,478.00Original price$15,478.00$15,478.00 - $15,478.00Current price $15,478.00| /A handsome set of Swainson, the first bird book and one of earliest natural history works to be illustrated with lithograph plates. The author's e...
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American Ornithology;
WILSON, Alexander.Original price $929.00 - Original price $929.00Original price$929.00$929.00 - $929.00Current price $929.00| /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 $11,144.00 - Original price $11,144.00Original price$11,144.00$11,144.00 - $11,144.00Current price $11,144.00| /A scarce monograph published in an edition of 250 copies only.Keulemans was the last of the great bird illustrators. This beautifully illustrated ...
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Four Pheasants
WOLF, Joseph (artist).Original price $12,382.00 - Original price $12,382.00Original price$12,382.00$12,382.00 - $12,382.00Current price $12,382.00| /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 $5,572.00 - Original price $5,572.00Original price$5,572.00$5,572.00 - $5,572.00Current price $5,572.00| /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 $12,382.00 - Original price $12,382.00Original price$12,382.00$12,382.00 - $12,382.00Current price $12,382.00| /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 $805.00 - Original price $805.00Original price$805.00$805.00 - $805.00Current price $805.00| /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 $434.00 - Original price $434.00Original price$434.00$434.00 - $434.00Current price $434.00| /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.
MORRIS, Francis Orpen.Original price $929.00 - Original price $929.00Original price$929.00$929.00 - $929.00Current price $929.00| /An attractive set of the reduced format edition of Morris' classic work on the birds of Great Britain. Before Morris, most bird books with hand-co...
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A history of British birds [With] A history of British fishes.
YARRELL, William.Original price $3,096.00 - Original price $3,096.00Original price$3,096.00$3,096.00 - $3,096.00Current price $3,096.00| /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 $4,644.00 - Original price $4,644.00Original price$4,644.00$4,644.00 - $4,644.00Current price $4,644.00| /"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 $8,668.00 - Original price $8,668.00Original price$8,668.00$8,668.00 - $8,668.00Current price $8,668.00| /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 $1,548.00 - Original price $1,548.00Original price$1,548.00$1,548.00 - $1,548.00Current price $1,548.00| /'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 $929.00 - Original price $929.00Original price$929.00$929.00 - $929.00Current price $929.00| /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 $24,145.00 - Original price $24,145.00Original price$24,145.00$24,145.00 - $24,145.00Current price $24,145.00| /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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A group of Four Hummingbirds
GOULD, JohnOriginal price $5,882.00 - Original price $5,882.00Original price$5,882.00$5,882.00 - $5,882.00Current price $5,882.00| /John Gould is widely considered the greatest and most ambitious of all Victorian ornithologists, combining both artistic skill and beauty and anat...
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Narrative of a visit to Somaliland in 1897,
LORT PHILLIPS, Ethelbert.Original price $353.00 - Original price $353.00Original price$353.00$353.00 - $353.00Current price $353.00| /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 $2,167.00 - Original price $2,167.00Original price$2,167.00$2,167.00 - $2,167.00Current price $2,167.00| /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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