Birds and Ornithology
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An exceptional, early Victorian natural history manuscript.
[NATURAL HISTORY] [ANON.]Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00| /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.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00| /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.Original price £11,500.00 - Original price £11,500.00Original price £0.00£11,500.00£11,500.00 - £11,500.00Current price £11,500.00| /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 £30,000.00 - Original price £30,000.00Original price £0.00£30,000.00£30,000.00 - £30,000.00Current price £30,000.00| /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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American Ornithology;
WILSON, Alexander.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /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 £9,000.00 - Original price £9,000.00Original price £0.00£9,000.00£9,000.00 - £9,000.00Current price £9,000.00| /[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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Two Guinea Fowl
WOLF, Joseph (artist).Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00| /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).Original price £10,000.00 - Original price £10,000.00Original price £0.00£10,000.00£10,000.00 - £10,000.00Current price £10,000.00| /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.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00| /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 £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /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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Rufous Backed Egret.
LEAR, Edward and John GOULD.Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00| /"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.Original price £7,000.00 - Original price £7,000.00Original price £0.00£7,000.00£7,000.00 - £7,000.00Current price £7,000.00| /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 £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /'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 £19,500.00 - Original price £19,500.00Original price £0.00£19,500.00£19,500.00 - £19,500.00Current price £19,500.00| /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 £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /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 £3,950.00 - Original price £3,950.00Original price £0.00£3,950.00£3,950.00 - £3,950.00Current price £3,950.00| /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 £37,500.00 - Original price £37,500.00Original price £0.00£37,500.00£37,500.00 - £37,500.00Current price £37,500.00| /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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[A Group of Four Birds Nests]:
NOZEMAN, Cornelius & SEPP, Jan Christian.Original price £6,250.00 - Original price £6,250.00Original price £0.00£6,250.00£6,250.00 - £6,250.00Current price £6,250.00| /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.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00| /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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