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Embark on a journey into the avian realm with our captivating Birds and Ornithology collection. Explore the fascinating lives of birds through intricate illustrations and detailed studies. From the majestic eagle to the delicate hummingbird, each artwork reveals the beauty and complexity of these winged wonders.
  • 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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  • British Birds; A Naturalists Sketch Book; British Mammals; Game Birds and Wild Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland,

    [ORNITHOLOGY]. THORBURN, Archibald.
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    Bound by Sangroski & Sutflcliffe. A fine collection of limited edition titles by the acclaimed artist Archibald Thorburn F.Z.S (1860-1935), a S...

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  • A Monograph of the Nectariniidae, or Family of Sunbirds.

    SHELLEY, George Ernest.
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    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.
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    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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  • American Ornithology;

    WILSON, Alexander.
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    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.
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    [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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  • Two Guinea Fowl

    WOLF, Joseph (artist).
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    Two beautiful lithographs of guinea fowl taken from the Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of the Pheasants, by Daniel Giroud Elliot. Elliot, ...

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  • [A Group of Four Plates of Pheasants].

    WOLF, Joseph (artist).
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    A group of four beautiful lithographs of pheasants taken from the Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of the Pheasants, by Daniel Giroud Elliot...

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  • A history of the rarer British birds [with] A catalogue of British birds.

    EYTON, T.C.
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    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.
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    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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  • Rufous Backed Egret.

    LEAR, Edward and John GOULD.
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    "The most remarkable bird drawings ever made". Edward Lear is one of the greatest ornithological artists of all time. His contributions to John Gou...

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  • Rough notes on the birds observed during twenty-five years' shooting and collecting in the British Islands.

    BOOTH, Edward Thomas.
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    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.
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    '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.
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    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.
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    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).
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    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.
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    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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  • [A Group of Four Birds Nests]:

    NOZEMAN, Cornelius & SEPP, Jan Christian.
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    Dutch birds. Nozeman's work, Nederlandsche Vogelen, which he couldn't finish, became the first comprehensive account of the avifauna of Holland and...

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  • The Natural History of Selborne, to which are added, the Naturalist's Calendar, Miscellaneous Observations, and Poems.

    WHITE, Rev. Gilbert.
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    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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