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John James Audubon. The Birds of America

By: N/A

Price: £24.00

Publisher: Houston, Christie's: 1982

Seller ID: 003559

the auction catalogue for the sale of all 435 plates from Audubon's great folio work on the Birds of America. Illustrated throughout with photographs, some full-page and a few in colour, printed wrappers as issued, with sale price sheets loosely inserted. Price sheets frayed at the outer edges otherwise a very clean copy-no internal marks. £24.00
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Birds of Kerala

By: Ali, Salim

Price: £24.00

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford: 1969

Seller ID: 004035

large octavo 25 by 17 cms (9.8 by 6.7 inches) text of 446 pages including indexes, illustrated with 16 coloured and 6 black and white plates plus end-paper maps, text maps and illustrations, original cloth with partial fading, dust jacket used and torn, very clean and sound-no internal marks or inscriptions £24.00
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Birds and Their Ways

By: Armstrong, Jessie F

Price: £42.00

Publisher: London, Swan Sonnenschein and Co: 1886

Seller ID: 004429

This is a very rare bird book, written for children, and illustrated with 10 full-page and 6 text wood engravings of birds. octavo 19 by 13 cms. (7.5 by 5 inches) Text of 137 pages. Original pictorial cloth, gilt edges. It's not listed in any of the standard bibliographies of bird books and there is currently no other copy listed online. It's undated but the publishers, Swan Sonnenschein, list it in their catalogue for 1886. A very clean copy, firm and sound in the covers, no internal marks Signature inside front cover, a few very small and faint spots to the cover-see photo, corners bent, ...
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Catalogue of the Ellis Collection of Ornithological Books in the University of Kansas Libraries

By: Mengel, Robert M

Price: £22.00

Publisher: Lawrence, Kansas, 1972

Seller ID: 003564

two volumes, , octavo (25.5 by 17 cms) volumes 1 and 2 (all published) covering letters A to D, 1972 and 1983, no further volumes were issued, pages 259 and 176 pages respectively. The work gives detailed descriptions of the books listed. Original printed wrappers, top edge of front cover of volume 1 with a faint crease otherwise a very nice, clean and unmarked set. £22.00
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Australian Birds A collection of paintings and drawings

By: Slater, Peter

Price: £23.00

Publisher: Queensland, Australia, Steve Parish Publishing: 2003

Seller ID: 003213

folio (33.75 by 25 cms) text of 160 pages illustrated throughout with colour (and a few black white) illustrations by the author, short tear in jacket, small white marks to the top and bottom edge of the spine, otherwise a fine unmarked copy-no inscriptions or signatures. The first edition was issued in 1997 and this is an unchanged reprint. £23.00
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