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Birds7885. : The Wetland Bird Survey 200103 Wildfowl and Wader Counts. British Trust for Ornithology and others, October 2005. vi+306 pp. maps, charts. Paperback, in very good condition. The report provides a single, comprehensive, source of information on the current status and distribution of non-breeding waterbirds in the U.K. £10.001424. Alington, C.E.A.: Partridge Driving. London: 1904. xii+135pp. Two folding diagrams. Some practical hints on increasing and preserving a stock of birds and in bringing them over the guns with a description of the Eaton system. v.g. some foreedge spotting. £25.003742. Anon.: Poultry for the Many. London Ninth edition n.d.1906. 306 pp. illustrated, paper covers a little dusty. Revised by the Editor of, " Poultry." £12.005475. Atkinon-Wildes, G.L. editor.: Wildfowl in Great Britain A Survey of the Anatidae and their Conservation in England, Scotland and Wales London: H.M.S.O. 1963 Monographs of the Nature Conservancy Number Three. 27.5 by 19 cms. xiv+368 pp. prepared by the Wildfowl Trust and illustrated by Peter Scott. 14 colour illustrations from oil paintings by Scott. Other photographic illustrations. The book is in very good condition, the dustwrapper has wear and minor fraying. £35.008734. Bevin, F. G.: The Cock Crows. Preston: Poultry Farmers Mutual Services enlarged and reprinted 1946. 203 pp. illustrated, ffep missing, otherwise good in a worn dustwrapper. £5.005448. Brockie, Keith: The Silvery Tay Paintings and Sketches from a Scottish River. London: J.M. Dent and Sons 1988. 30 by 22 cms 150 pp. illustrated, very good in a price clipped dustwrapper. In 150 drawings, sketches, water colours, oils he superbly catches the birds animals and plants found along the Tay. Beautiful illustrations, a very handsome book. £14.959697. C. L. Bencard Ltd: Birds of the Table London: C. L. Bencard Ltd, 1955. 8 pp. 20 x 12.5 cm. Half-page illustrations include reproductions of seven wood engravings, with appropriate text, from Thomas Berwick's History of British Birds: titles printed red. There are a further five illustrations, including one half-page. The white card covers are printed red and black, and the inside back cover carries an advertisement for "Prodexin". £5.004681. Campbell, Bruce: The Dictionary of Birds in Colour London: Peerage Books, 1983 352pp. 31 x 24cm. 1,008 coloured plates. Torn dustwrapper, and inscription on ffep, otherwise vg. £10.004682. Campbell, Bruce: The Dictionary of Birds in Colour. London: Michael Joseph Limited, 1974 352pp. 31 x 24cm. 1,008 coloured plates. Frayed dustwrapper, otherwise vg. £20.001158. Christian, Garth: Down the Long Wind A Study of Bird Migration. London, Newnes 1961. 240 pp. illustrated, d.w. v.g. some wear to d.w. £8.008181. City of Belfast Museum and Art Gallery: Exhibition of British Bird Art 14 th April - 8th May 1954. City of Belfast Museum and Art Gallery, 1954. Publication no 151. 26 pp. 21 x 15cm. Contents good, in dusty illustrated card covers. £5.0011126. Clare, John: Bird Poems. London: The Folio Society 1980. 143 pp. introduction by Peter Levi, wood-engravings by Thomas Bewick, hardback, in a blue leather spine and linen cloth boards, gilt spine title, in a cream slipcase. All in very good condition. A lovely little book with the combination of poetry and delightful Bewick bird engravings. £12.007812. Cramp, Stanley, Bourne, W.R.P. and Saunders, David: The Seabirds of Britain and Ireland. London: Collins 3rd ed. 1976. 287 pp. illustrated, maps, very good in a good dustwrapper. Acomprehensive survey of the subject. £7.004726. Delacour, Jean: Pheasant Breeding and Care. All Pets Books Wisc. 1959 xiv+108pp,illustrated. Good. £23.005417. Dougall, Robert: A Celebration of Birds. London: Collins and Harville Press 1978. 194 pp. illustrated by John Barber. Very good in a price clipped dustwrapper. An introduction to the endless fascination of birdlife. Full page black and white drawings with 8 beautiful fiull page colour paintings. £12.0011987. Elms, E. F. M: Migrant Birds How to Know Them. London: Thornton Butterworth 4th imp. June 1936. 126 pp. illustrated, spine faded, rear board a little marked otherwise good. £7.00722. Evans, Ernest: The Biology of Poultry Keeping or the Domestic Fowl, its History, Anatomy, Food, Reproduction and Breeding. Brierfield: A.R. Kenyon & Co, and Burnley: Utility Poultry Society, 1899. xv + 108 + iii pp. 22 x 14 cm. Grey front board black-blocked in Arts and Crafts design incorporating author, title, and price; borders, scrolling foliage, and group of turkeys: back board blind stamped with borders and scrolling foliage. Thirty-three illustrations, and a contemporary leaflet on how to work an incubator. Some staing to back board. £75.009695. Fair Isle Bird Observatory Trust: Fair Isle Bird Observatory Prospectus. Edinburgh: Fair Isle Bird Observatory Trust, c1950. 4 pp. 22 x 14 cm. The text is continued inside the back cover. The inside of the front cover lists the Trustees, etc, etc, and two copies of a Covenant Form are enclosed. The white card covers are printed blue - the front with a sketch of the Observatory, and the back cover with a map. Visitors MUST bring their Ration Books. There are exhaustive descriptions of the Observatory, transport, accommodation, etc, etc. £5.009696. Fair Isle Bird Observatory Trust: The Autumn Migration of Birds to The British Isles. Edinburgh: Fair Isle Bird Observatory Trust, c1950. 15 + 8 pp. 22 x 14 cm. The eight pages contain sixteen Plates. The inside of the front cover lists the Trustees, etc, etc, headed "The Scottish Ornathologists' Club, Fair Isle Bird Observatory Trust". The white card covers are printed blue - the front with a map showing the autumn migration. Pages 11, 13, and 15 are detachable Bankers' Orders, and page 11 has been neatly detached at the perforations. £5.002081. Finn: Ornothological and other Oddities London Bodley Head 1907 xvi+294pp. 56 illustrations. no d.w. Finn was deputy superintendant of the Indian Museum Calcutta. £18.007760. Fisher, James: The Shell Bird Book. Erbury Press and Michael Joseph 1966. 344 pp. illustrated, maps, diagrams, very good in a v.g. dustwrapper. The fiorst complete list of British birds from prehistoric times to the present day, including living birds and fossils, and the first known written records of birds here. Deals with migration, song, birds in prose and poetry, reserves, observatories, conservation organisations etc, with 48 birds painted in colour by Dr E.A.R. Ennion. Not a field guide as such but a good addition to an ornothological library, though better on Britain than Ireland. £6.003784. Flegg, Jim: A Notebook of Birds 1907-1980 - with a commentary by Jim Flegg and illustrations by Norman Arlott, Robert Gillmor and Laurel Tucker London, Macmillan, 1981 vii + 184pp, 22 x 14cm, mint in dw. £10.005631. Frohawk, F.W: Birds of the British Isles Junior Field Guides No 1. London: Ward Lock & Co. 1957. 96 pp. illustrated with colour plates. The book is in very good condition but the dustwrapper is torn with loss at the bottom rear cover. The ability to identify birds in the field is a skill that any child can acquire, in fact at the end of the first season's watching the young observer should be quite expert. £6.002085. Gibson-Hill, C.A.: British Seabirds London, H.F.and G. Witherby 1947 28 by 20 cms. 143pp. illustrated by photographs by the author, no d.w. v.g. £12.005632. Gooders, John: Where to Watch Birds. London: Andre Deutsch 2nd imp 1968. 313 pp. illustrated with maps and photographs. With an introduction by Roger Tory Peterson. Very good in a price-clipped dustwrapper. A guide to over 500 bird-watching sites in England, Wales and Scotland, with details of how to get there and whats to see. £6.003298. Gordon, Seton: Wild Birds in Britain. London: Batsford 2nd ed. revised 1943. viii+ 120pp. 2 colour plates and 100 illustrations in colour. Top right corner bumped otherwise good. £6.0011918. Gordon, W.J: Eggs of the Native Birds of Britain and List of British Birds past and present. London: Simpkin, Marshall Hamilton, Kent & Co. n.d.c.1909/12 (?) Being a Supplement to ,"Our Country's Birds". 64 pp. with over two hundred coloured figures. Some text has a short underline presumably to mark items in a collection. In very good condition. Collecting such eggs today is now prohibited of course. £16.007489. Hanzak, Jan: A Concise Guide in Colour Birds' Nests and Eggs. London: Hamlyn 1973. 17 by 11.5 cms. 229 pp. illustrated in colour by Premysl Pospisil and Miroslav Rada.Hardback in very good condition. £5.006754. Harrison, Colin: An Atlas of the Birds of the Western Palearctic. London: Collins 1982. 24.5 by 17.5 cms. 322 pp. design and cartography by Crispin Fisher. Almost as new in dustwrapper. An atlas to the summer, winter and resident distributions of 639 species of bird in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, with the breeding ranges of 167 species from adjoining areas to show patterns of distribution across Eurasia as a whole. A handsome book. £18.004896. Hayman, Peter and Everett, Michael: What's That Bird? A Guide to British and Continental Birds. Bedfordshire: R.S.P.B. 1986. 80pp, illustrated in colour, very good in dustwrapper. An excellent visual guide from The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. £5.002086. Higham, W.G.: Birds in Colour London Collins 1946 175pp. illustrated with colour photographs, good. £6.005635. Holland, John: Bird Spotting. London: Blandford n.d. 14.5 by 11.5 cm. 286 pp. illustrated, no dustwrapper. bears a recommendation from the RSPB. some modest wear otherwise good. £5.005666. Hudson, WH: Birds in Town & Village London & Toronto: JM Dent & Sons Ltd, 1919 An enlarged edition of Birds in a Village (1893). 274 pp, 18.5 x 12.5 cm, 8 colour plates by EJ Detmold. In slightly-worn gold-blocked red boards. £35.0011568. Hutchinson, Clive: Ireland's Wetlands and their Birds. Dublin: Irish Wildbird Conservancy 1979. 24 by 18 cms. 201 pp. illustrated, maps, hardback, in a slightly worn dustwrapper. In very good condition. This is the first book devoted exclusively to the birds of these wetlands. It seems now scarce. £30.008774. Ingram, Geoffrey C. S. and Salmon, H. Morrey: Birds in Britain To-Day. London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson 1934. 25 by 18.5 cms. x+145 pp. illustrated by sixty-five photographs of fifty species by the authors. No dustwrapper a little wear to bottom area of spine, some spotting to endpapers otherwise good. £5.009694. Kuroda, Nagamichi: The Protection of Birds in Japan. Tokyo: Nagamichi Kuroda, 1928. iii + 10 + 19 pp. 22 x 15 cm. Dr Nagamichi Kuroda was a Member of the Japanese Section of the International Committee for Bird Protection. The text is preceded by Plates 1 to 10, being twenty-two illustrations in all. There is a list of corrigenda tipped inside the front cover, and a panel of Japanese script printed inside the back cover. The wrap-around cover is pale-green, thin card, printed black. Condition is very good, apart from rusted staples. £42.004197. Lack, David.: The Life of the Robin. London, E.F.and G. Weatherby 4th ed. 1965. 239 pp, illustrated by Robert Gillmor, no d.w. very good. £10.001852. Madoc G.C.: An Introduction to Malayan Birds The Malayan Nature Society Kuala Lumpur 1956 Revised ed. vii+234pp. with drawings by Dr. B.D. Molesworth d.w. v.g. £16.507490. Marquis MacSwiney of Mashanglass.: Six Came Flying. London: Michael Joseph 1971. 190 pp. illustrated, endpaper maps,very good in a price clipped dustwrapper. The six are a pair of Mute swans and their four cygnets. The author and his wife living in a moated manor house in Westphalia and had longed for swans on the moat when these appeared. A very attractive book about swans, beautifully illustrated. £10.001440. Matheson, Darley: British Game Birds Francis Griffiths London 1914 173pp. illustrated in colour and black and white. v.g.spine a little faded. £22.004151. Millington, Richard: A Twitchers Diary. Poole, Blandford Press 1981. xi+192 pp, illustrated, d.w. The Birdwatching year of Richard Millington. £10.008654. Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.: Intensive Methods of Poultry Management. London Her Majesty's Stationary Office reprinted Jan.1955. Bulletin no. 152. 62 pp illustrated, card covers, in very good condition. £6.008655. Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.: The Culling of Poultry. London Her Majesty's Stationary Office reprinted Jan.1955. Bulletin no. 59. 19 pp illustrated, card covers, in good condition. £5.005633. Perry, Richard: Watching Sea Birds. Newton Abbot: Readers Union 1977. 230 pp. maps, illustrated by Richard Richardson. An account of two unique springs and summers on Lundy and on Noss on the Shetlands. Kittiwakes, Auks, Guillemots, Razorbills, Puffins, Gannets, Great and Arctic Skuas £5.00723. Powell Owen, W: Poultry Keeping on Money Making Lines. London n.d. c. 1920 3rd imp. x+ 228 pp. some wear to boards £23.004731. Roberts, Dr. Austin: The Birds of South Africa. London, Witherby Ltd 2nd imp. 1940. xxxi+463 pp, illustrated by Norman C. K. Lighton, 56 colour plates. Published for the Trustees of the South African Bird Book Fund. The book has been professionally recased in new blue boards and spine, in good condition. A comprehensive study of the subject. £23.009365. Royal Society for the Protection of Birds: Birds of Belfast harbour Lagoon 1999. Belfast: 1999. 29.5 by 21 cms. 66pp. illustrated, paperback. the harbour lagoon is one of the most visited bird reserves inthe Province. £5.006756. Ruttledge, Robert F: Ireland's Birds Their Distribution and Migrations. London: H.F.& G. Witherby Ltd. 1st ed 1966. xv+207 pp. illustrated, map, very good in a slightly rubbed dustwrapper. A useful and comprehensive study with photographs taken to illustrate habitat. £25.001426. Scott Peter: Wild Chorus London Country Life 1941 reprint 119pp. illustrated by Scott in colour and black and white. no d.w. v.g. £25.007278. Sharrock, J. T. R.: The Atlas of Breeding Birds in Britain and Ireland Poyser, T. & A. D. 3rd imp. 1980. 477 pp. illustrated, maps, set of transparent overlays of environmental factors, almost as new in dustwrapper. The Atlas is derived from a survey of breeding birds in Britain and Ireland during the years 1968-1972, probably the most comprehensive co-operative ornithological project ever undertaken. £18.001438. Smith, Lawrence B.: American Game Preserve Shooting Garden City New York 1937 260 by 20cms. xviii+175pp. many illustrations, no d.w.. v.g. About game bird rearing and preservation. How to produce, manage and shoot game, One of the first treatises of its kind in the American shooting literature. £35.008493. The London Natural History Society.: The London Bird Report number Thirty-Four for 1969. London: The London Natural History Society 1969. 89 pp. illustrated, card covers, in very good condition. £5.007207. The London Natural History Society.: The London Bird Report number Thirty-Three for 1968. London: The London Natural History Society 1968. 102 pp. illustrated, card covers, in very good condition. £5.003284. Tuck, Capt. Gerald S.: A Field Guide to the Seabirds of Britain and the World. London: Collins 1980. 292pp. Illustrated by Hermann Heinzel. v.g. £6.005462. Tunnicliffe, C.F.: Sketches of Bird Life. London: Victor Gollancz 1981. 25 by 17 cms. 122 pp. illustrated, bottom corners very slightly bumped otherwise very good, almost as new. Introduction and commentary by Robert Gillmor. The illustrations are of course ravishing, sketches chosen from the artist's notebooks as part of his private reference library. The emphasis is on bird behaviour and the way the bird artist goes about his work. A lovely book £20.006184. Turner, E.L: Bird Watching at Scolt Head. London: Country Life 1st edition 1928. 25.5 by 19 cms. 83 pp. illustrated with many black and white phographs, cloth and marbled boards, slightly bowed with faded, ring stain to bottom of the front board, otherwise very good. Scolt head is in Norfolk so ringed plovers, common, little, roseate, and sandwich terns, redshanks, oyster catchers, common shield ducks all figure prominently. £12.0011924. U.S. Department of Agriculture.: Farmers Bulletins no's 141, 51, 29, 31, 64, 8. Washington: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture 1895, 1897, 1899, 1901, A single volume entitled Govt. Report on Poultry which binds together the following. This contains six bulletins, Farmers' Bulletin no. 141, Poultry Raising on the Farm by Dr. D.E. Salmon pub. 1901, 16pp. No. 51 Standard Varieties of Chickens, by Dr. D.E. Salmon pub. 1899, 48pp. No. 29 American Breeds of Fowls 1 The Plymouth Rock, by T.F. McGrew pub. 1901, 32pp. No. 31 American Breeds of Fowls II The Wyandotte, by T.F. McGrew, pub.1901, 30pp. No. 64 Ducks and Geese Standard Breeds and Management by George E. Howard, pub 1897, 48pp. and, No. 8 Investigations concerning Infectious Diseases Among Poultry, by Theobald Smith and Veranus A. Moore, under the direction of Dr. D. E. Salmon, pub. 1895. 90pp. All are extensively illustrated, no. 29 has 6 beautiful full page chromolithographic colour plates, no. 31 has 10 chromolithographs, no. 8 has 1 chromolithigraph plate and five other plates. There is minor wear to spine extremities and a little wear to the bottom of the back cover, internally in very good condiition, bright, clean, no annotations, overall a very nice copy of these early agricultural bulletins with beautiful coloured illustrations of these two varieties of bird. £125.005887. Vesey -Fitzgerald, B: British Game. London Collins 1st ed. 1946. New Naturalists Series, xv+240 pp. illustrated with 28 reproductions in colour and 81 black and white photographs. The d.w. is chipped, torn with loss and generally poor, the book has some very minor spotting to endpapers but is otherwise good. The second publication in this long series £12.0011836. Viney, Clive and Phillips, Karen: A Colour Guide to Hong Kong Birds. Hong Kong: nd 1977 (?) 122 pp. illustrated, endpaper maps, card covers, name snipped off top of title page otherwise very good. £6.008836. Wardlaw Ramsay, Colonel R. G.: Guide to the Birds of Europe and North Africa. London: Gurney and Jackson 1923. ix+355 pp. with a biographical memoir by William Eagle Clarke. In good condition. £10.001427. Watmough W.: The Cult of the Budgerigar London n.d. 3rd ed. c.1951 vi+257pp. illus. nice colour plates and a scale drawing for an Aviary. good. £16.506103. Wentworth Day, J: Sporting Adventure. London: George G Harrap 1st ed. 1937. 287 pp. pictured by Fish Hawk with 13 full page plates and other sketches. Green boards, embossed front board and gilt spine title. No dustwrapper. In very good condition. £15.007298. Williamson, Henry: The Scandaroon. London: Macdonald 1972. 152 pp. illustrations by Ken Lilly. very good, almost as new in a price clipped dustwrapper. A lovely book. £10.0011981. Wilson, Alexander and Bonaparte, Charles Lucian: American Ornithology; or the Natural History of the Birds of the United States. Edinburgh: Constable and Co. and Hurst Chance and Co London 1831. Volume III only of four vols, 320 pp. two title pages, the first engraved, hardback, bears the stamp of Lisburn Literary Society founded 1851, bookseller label for Chas F. Collins Drogheda. Boards dusty, a little wear, spine label darkened, internally tight and clean, otherwise very good. £45.008887. Woodford, Michael: A Manual of Falconry. London: Adam & Charles Black 1966. Second edition. xvi + 194 pp. 23 x 15 cm. Chapters on Rook Hawking and Game Hawking by J.G. Mavrogordato and Major S. E. Allen. Illustrated. Owner's inscription on ffep. Hardback, in a rather rubbed, worn,dustwrapper. £10.004156. Wyllie, Ian: The Cuckoo. London Batsford 1981 176 pp, illustrated. d.w. v.g. £15.00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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