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...

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...

Complete set with fine English provenance. First edition of one of the most ambitious scientific, historical, artistic and publishing projects - a ...

Attractive Keulemans plates. first edition of this important monograph, one of 250 copies only. Amongst the most beautiful of bird monographs, the ...

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,...

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...

An attractive copy of Wilson's classic work on American Ornithology.3 vols, 8vo; engraved portrait frontispiece, 103 colour plates after the autho...

[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...

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...

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...

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...

Edward Booth was a wealthy bird-watcher and sportsman who stuffed his own specimens and mounted them in their natural surroundings in glass cases....

'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...

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 ...

Ethelbert Edward Lort Phillips (1857-1944) led a botanical expedition from Berbera to the Golis mountains in Somaliland before returning to Somali...

A finely bound copy of this beautifully illustrated work on British game birds. Beverley Morris was a younger brother of Francis Morris, the famou...

A fundamental work for systematic ornithology. The most celebrated early English ornithology. 'It is difficult to underestimate what enormous labou...

The first coloured illustrations of birds in a book which attempted to list and portray all of the British species, many of them life-size. The bi...

In publisher's boards. Following its publication in 1789 The Natural History of Selborne went through numerous editions in the nineteenth century. ...

The first complete work on the avifauna of Europe since Gould. Dresser's Birds of Europe is the first complete work on the avifauna of Europe since...

Rare. A fine series of plates from an important monograph on the grouse and its hybrids. Mützel, an animal painter born and trained in Berlin, was...