Birds of the Sea Shore Illustrated

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge n.d. [1856?] title page + 12 leaves, 12 chromolithographic plates. . HB. 12mo (135x100mm), orig. blue cloth, blind-stamped border with decorative corners to both boards, gilt vignette and title to front board, all edges gilt. Gutta percha has perished and all leaves are loose.. Undated. British Library states 1858. Bibliographies give varying dates. Scarce. 12 chromolithographic plates each with an accompanying leaf of letterpress. Freeman 333 [1856]; Mullens & Swann p. 21 [1858]..

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Book number: A58116

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Birds on the Hill

Bushbury Hill Secondary Modern School 1953 [ii], 12, map. . PB. Stitched booklet, orig. cloth-covered, card wrappers, printed title label to front wrapper. Good.. A survey of bird life on and around Bushbury Hill, carried out by the boys of Bushbury Hill Secondary Modern School, Wolverhampton, throughout the year 1952. Duplicated typescript booklet. Scarce..

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Book number: S56733

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Keywords: Birds; Ornithology; West Midlands; England; Britain

[Livingstone, George]

British Birds: Their Haunts and Habits

Printed for Private Distribution Only 1868 [iii], 282, title vignette. . HB. 8vo, finely bound in cont. full morocco, double-ruled, blind-stamped border to both boards, gt vignette to front board, raised bands to spine, aeg, gilt decorative roll to edges of boards and gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. A little light scuffing, rubbed to extremities, headcap chipped. Title page clipped, 2.5cm from top blank margin (to remove previous owner's name).. First edition. Privately published and rare. Provides an account of British species, arranged alphabetically by common name. 'The Compiler of the following work, having devoted a considerable portion of his leisure hours to the study of Ornithology, has collected a variety of facts relating to several interesting specimens of the feathered tribe, the publication of which he trusts may be useful and entertaining to those who, like himself, take pleasure in this branch of natural history. The present collection lays no claim to originality, but the information it contains is derived from a variety of sources not always perhaps accessible to the majority of readers ...' - PrefaceFreeman 2298; Mullens & Swann p. 21..

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Book number: A50548

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British Birds

Religious Tract Society 1846 viii, 216, 24 hand-col plates. . HB. 16mo, orig. cloth, blind-stamped decorative borders to both boards, dec. gilt design to spine and front panel, aeg; minor wear, partial fading ro rear cover. Foxing/browning to some plates. Vg.. Charming hand-coloured plates..

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Book number: A50579

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British Birds: An Illustrated Magazine devoted chiefly to the Birds on the British List. Vol. 39-56, 78-82

Witherby 1946-1989 , . . HB. 23 volumes, mixed bindings. Vols 39-41 in card binders; Vols 42-56 in blue cloth; Vols. 78-82 in plastic binders. From the library of the naturalist Charles Bradwin Ashby (1920-1994).. .

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Book number: P29487

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British Birds: An Illustrated Magazine devoted to the Birds on the British List. Vol. 47-58

Witherby 1954-1965 , b/w plates, b/w photos, text figs. . HB/PB. 12 vols, 8vo, Vols 47-55: orig. publisher's brown cloth; Vols 56-58: orig. part wrappers as issued (staples rusty). Lacking 58(8). Vg.. .

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Book number: P42672

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British Birds. Vol. 89-91

British Birds Ltd. 1996-1998 , b/w + col photos. . HB. 3 vols in monthly parts as issued, 8vo, orig. wrappers (light stain to one wrapper). Vg.. .

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Book number: P42673

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Dungeness Bird Observatory [Report] 1958, 1961-1968 [with] Dungeness Bird Observatory 1952-1962 [Special Report]

Dungeness Bird Observatory Committee 1959-1969 , b/w photos, text figs. . PB. 9 parts, orig. wrappers, staple bound. Vg.. Annual reports of the Dungeness Bird Observatory, established in 1952. Includes a special report summarising the data amassed over the first 10 years (1952-1962)..

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Book number: S57889

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Keywords: Birds; Ornithology; Kent; England; Britain

Great Bird Illustrations Postcards in Full Colour

Natural History Museum / Dover Publications 1993 , . . PB. Orig. illustrated card covers (305x228mm). Vg.. Book of 24 postcards (printed 4 to a page, perforated between cards). With Introduction to the featured birds, and the publications they are taken from. The artwork is selected from the libraries of the Natural History Museum, London, including a Goldfinch by John Gould, Common Buzzard by Thomas Pennant, Scarlet Macaw by Edward Lear, and Horned Puffin by John James Audubon, etc.. [9780486275550]

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Book number: S55712

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Keywords: Bird Art; Postcards

Guide to British Bird Tracks and Signs (Identification Chart)

Field Studies Council 2019 12, colour illus. . Chart. NEW. . Many birds are shy and easily disturbed. But just like mammals, birds leave clues when they have visited. From footprints and feathers to probe holes and peck marks, bird activity can be spotted in gardens, woodland, sandy beaches and muddy places.The front side of this guide features colour illustrations of the four main types of footprint. Learn to distinguish the tracks of starlings from sparrows, gulls from ducks, crows from buzzards, blackbirds from woodpigeons, and many more. Colour paintings on the reverse side include many other signs to spot, from rosehip pecked by finches, thistle heads opened by goldfinches, song thrush anvils and the marks left on hazelnuts and deadwood.. [9781908819505]

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Book number: N39329

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Hampshire Bird Report 2000-2002

Hampshire Ornitholical Society 2002-2003 , col + b/w illus. . PB. 3 vols, orig. wrappers, partly faded. One volume lightly bumped. Good.. .

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Book number: P51245

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Hampshire Bird Report 2005-2014

Hampshire Ornitholical Society 2007-2015 , col + b/w illus. . PB. 10 vols, orig. wrappers. Vg.. .

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Book number: P51246

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Handbook and Guide to the British Birds on Exhibition in the Lord Derby Natural History Museum, Liverpool

J. Robertson & Co. 1920 xviii, 73, 12 b/w plates. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth-backed boards, lightly soiled, internally clean. Good.. Second revised edition. Preface by Joseph A. Clubb, Curator. Scarce guide to the cases of birds exhibited at the Liverpool Museum..

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Book number: S55716

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Keywords: Birds; Ornithology; Britain; Museum collection

The Hong Kong Bird Report 1979-1996

Hong Kong Bird Watching Society 1979-1996 , . . PB. Vg.. 15 annual reports (2 are double-year issues), lacking the Report for 1988..

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Book number: P38456

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Keywords: Bird Watching; Hong Kong; China; Asia; Periodical

The Ibis: A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology. Thirteenth Series Vol. II [Vol. 74] (1-3)

British Ornithologists Union 1932 565, 7 plates (4 col, 2 b/w, I folding map). . PB. Wrappers. In parts as issued, unopened. Part 2 front wrapper detached, stitching broken, lacks rear wrapper.. Parts 1-3, January, April, July only. Includes ‘On the Ornithology of Albania’ by H. Whistler; ‘On the Ornithology of Albania’ by C.B. Ticehurst; ‘Bird Notes on a trip to Lapland’ by I. Hortling & E.C. Stuart Baker. Includes four colour plates by the Danish artist Henrik Grönvold (1858-1940)..

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Book number: P36772

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Keywords: Birds; C4057; Great Britain; Periodical