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  • Concerning Parrots. Bird Exhibits at the Peabody Museum.

    Emilio, S.G.
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    Rare parrots. A rare pamphlet describing the parrot specimens at the Peabody Museum, originally published as an article in the Salem Evening News. ...

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  • History of British Birds [with] A Supplement to the History of British Birds, A General History of Quadrupeds [and] The Fables of Aesop.

    BEWICK, Thomas & John.
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    Magnificent imperial octavos. An exceptional imperial octavo set, one of only 24 copies of the Land Birds thus, finely bound in crushed morocco. Al...

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  • Records of Parrots Bred in Captivity [together with] Additions.

    PRESTWICH, Arthur A.
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    Inscribed presentation copy. First edition of this scarce, comprehensive record of international parrot breeding, inscribed by the author on the fr...

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  • A History of British Birds [with] A History of British Fishes with Supplement [and] A History of British Quadrupeds [and] A History of British Reptiles.

    YARRELL, William & BELL, Thomas.
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    Imperial octavo. A handsomely bound imperial octavo set, all first editions, of Yarrell's copiously illustrated British Birds and Fishes, including...

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  • A History of the Fishes of the British Islands.

    COUCH, Jonathan.
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    The first british fish book in colour. A handsomely bound reissued set of this 'major contribution to ichthyology... the earliest work on British f...

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  • Palaeontology or

    OWEN, Richard.
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    Inscribed presentation copy. First edition, presentation copy inscribed 'from the author' on the title and 'B Cockray, March 20, 1860, from Mr. Owe...

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  • Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature.

    HUXLEY, T.H.
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    The first book to apply darwinian evolution to humanity. First edition of the first book to apply Darwinian evolution to humans, just preceding Dar...

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  • Our Book of Feathered Friends.

    HOYER, M.A.; WEEDON, L.L.; GASK, Lillian; BINGHAM, Clifton; COLLINS, Charles (illus.)
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    Lush bird illustrations. First edition of this charming, chromolithographic children's book of stories and poems about birds, from domestic poultry...

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  • Essay on the Theory of the Earth.

    CUVIER, Georges L.C., Baron; KERR, Robert (translator).
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    Biology as a newtonian science. First English language edition of Cuvier's important essay establishing the role of cyclical geological catastrophe...

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  • Naturhistorische Abhandlungen und Erläuterungen besonders die Petrefactenkunde betressend.

    TILESIUS, Wilhelm Gottfried.
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    Fine hand-coloured plates of fossils. The plates from the first and only edition of an early work on fossilised invertebrates by the German natural...

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  • Vergleichende Anatomie der Wirbeltiere: Rana esculenta. Wasserfrosch.

    SCHMID, Bastian.
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    Uncommon, early 20th-century anatomical relief plaque of the European frog species Rana esculenta (the common European water frog, or green frog)....

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  • 19 meticulous birding notebooks kept during the 1980s and early 1990s.

    BOLTSON, Howard.
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    A decade's worth of birdwatching. An exceptional set of notebooks recording the observations of an Audubon Master Birder between 1985 and 1992, pri...

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  • An exceptional, early Victorian natural history manuscript.

    [NATURAL HISTORY] [ANON.]
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    Hundreds of watercolours including unusual animals and plants. A remarkable English natural history album of beautifully-executed watercolours and ...

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  • A General History of Quadrupeds.

    BEWICK, Thomas.
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    Imperial paper copy. This edition includes thirteen new figures, one of which, the Spotted Hyena replaced an earlier figure; a rearrangement of the...

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  • The Universal Conchologist,

    MARTYN, Thomas.
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    An exceptionally fine copy. The 'South Seas' issue of Thomas Martyn's (d.1811) richly illustrated The Universal Conchologist, comprising 80 hand-co...

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  • The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne,

    WHITE, Rev. Gilbert.
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    Mitford's royal octavo edition. A good example of the naturalist Rev. Gilibert White's (1720-1793) popular masterpiece, of which more than eighty e...

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