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Birds7885. : The Wetland Bird Survey 2001-03 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. £5.0012789. Bracegirdle, Joe: The Border Canary. Alton Hants: Nimrod Press 2nd ed. 1987 first published 1980. 150 pp. illustrated, stiff card covers, in very good condition. £8.009697. 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". £5.0013201. Cadman, W.A: Tales of a Wildfowler. London: Collins 1957. 192 pp. illustrated by Peter Scott. an ex-library book with a library hardcover binding and a small lib. stamp on the rear of the endpaper, a fair copy. £10.008181. 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. £5.00722. 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. £18.005631. 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. £6.005632. 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. £6.0011918. 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. £16.006754. 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. £18.0011568. 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. £30.001440. Matheson, Darley: British Game Birds Francis Griffiths London 1914 173pp. illustrated in colour and black and white. v.g.spine a little faded. £22.008654. 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. £5.0013231. Northern Ireland Birdwatchers' Association: Northern Ireland Bird Report 1998. Belfast: Northern Ireland Birdwatchers' Association 1998. 120 pp. illustrated, small library stamp on endpaper otherwise in very good condition, softcovers. £10.00723. Powell Owen, W: Poultry Keeping on Money Making Lines. London n.d. c. 1920 3rd imp. x+ 228 pp. some wear to boards £23.009365. 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. £25.005383. Ruttledge, W: Falconry for Beginners. British Falconers Club: revised ed. 1955 25 by 19 cm. 26+vi pp. paper covers, very good. This treatise has been written as an easily available and simple treatise on falconry suitable as a guide for beginners in the sport. First published 1949. £25.008493. 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. £5.0011924. 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. £125.0011836. 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. £10.006103. 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. £15.0011981. 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. £45.00 |
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