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 $9,582.00 - Original price $9,582.00Original price $0.00$9,582.00$9,582.00 - $9,582.00Current price $9,582.00| /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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Description de l'Egypte,
COMMISSION DES SCIENCES ET ARTS D'EGYPTE.Original price $249,123.00 - Original price $249,123.00Original price $0.00$249,123.00$249,123.00 - $249,123.00Current price $249,123.00| /Complete set with fine Ducal provenance. First edition of one of the most ambitious scientific, historical, artistic and publishing projects - a co...
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A Monograph of the Nectariniidae, or Family of Sunbirds.
SHELLEY, George Ernest.Original price $14,692.00 - Original price $14,692.00Original price $0.00$14,692.00$14,692.00 - $14,692.00Current price $14,692.00| /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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Lord’s entire new system of ornithology.
LORD, Thomas.Original price $38,327.00 - Original price $38,327.00Original price $0.00$38,327.00$38,327.00 - $38,327.00Current price $38,327.00| /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 $15,970.00 - Original price $15,970.00Original price $0.00$15,970.00$15,970.00 - $15,970.00Current price $15,970.00| /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 $959.00 - Original price $959.00Original price $0.00$959.00$959.00 - $959.00Current price $959.00| /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 $0.00$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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A history of the rarer British birds [with] A catalogue of British birds.
EYTON, T.C.Original price $831.00 - Original price $831.00Original price $0.00$831.00$831.00 - $831.00Current price $831.00| /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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A history of British birds [With] A history of British fishes.
YARRELL, William.Original price $3,194.00 - Original price $3,194.00Original price $0.00$3,194.00$3,194.00 - $3,194.00Current price $3,194.00| /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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Rough notes on the birds observed during twenty-five years' shooting and collecting in the British Islands.
BOOTH, Edward Thomas.Original price $8,943.00 - Original price $8,943.00Original price $0.00$8,943.00$8,943.00 - $8,943.00Current price $8,943.00| /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 $1,597.00 - Original price $1,597.00Original price $0.00$1,597.00$1,597.00 - $1,597.00Current price $1,597.00| /'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 Monograph of the Odontophorinae, or Partridges of America.
GOULD, John.Original price $24,913.00 - Original price $24,913.00Original price $0.00$24,913.00$24,913.00 - $24,913.00Current price $24,913.00| /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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British Game Birds and Wildfowl.
MORRIS, Beverley.Original price $2,236.00 - Original price $2,236.00Original price $0.00$2,236.00$2,236.00 - $2,236.00Current price $2,236.00| /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 $0.00$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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Zoologia Britannica
PENNANT, Thomas.Original price $47,909.00 - Original price $47,909.00Original price $0.00$47,909.00$47,909.00 - $47,909.00Current price $47,909.00| /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...
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The Natural History of Selborne, to which are added, the Naturalist's Calendar, Miscellaneous Observations, and Poems.
WHITE, Rev. Gilbert.Original price $480.00 - Original price $480.00Original price $0.00$480.00$480.00 - $480.00Current price $480.00| /In publisher's boards. Following its publication in 1789 The Natural History of Selborne went through numerous editions in the nineteenth century. ...
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A history of the birds of Europe.
DRESSER, Henry Eeles.Original price $22,358.00 - Original price $22,358.00Original price $22,358.00$22,358.00$22,358.00 - $22,358.00Current price $22,358.00| /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...
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