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AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES: John James Audubon. The Birds of America. The Property of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences.
New York: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1987. Auction catalogue for the sale in New York, September 14 and 15, 1987. Coloured frontispiece and profusely illustrated both in colour and black & white. 4to, pp.253:[29], softcover; slight chipping and creasing to top of spine, corners slightly bumped; internally, very slight chipping to fore-edge of three pages, else very good. This sale comprised 435 lots; price list loosely inserted.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 2481
BAKER, E. C. STUART: The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Birds - Volume V (Second edition).
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London : Taylor & Francis, 1928. 6 plates, of which 5 coloured. 9vo (9 1.4 x 6 1/2 inches), 467-pages, original maroon cloth; damp affecting lower margin of covers and endpapers, text and plates unaffected however.
£20.00
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GASPERETTI, J & P: Birds of Saudi Arabia. A Note on Arabian Ornithology - Two Endangered Species. Reprinted from "Fauna of Saudi Arabia" Vol. 3, 1981.
Reprinted from "Fauna of Saudi Arabia" Vol. 3, 1981. 4to (11 x 8 1/2 inches), pages: 435-440. Original printed card wrappers; fine.
£15.00
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LEWIS, ADRIAN. & POMEROY, DEREK: A Bird Atlas of Kenya.
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Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema, 1989. First edition. Plates. Key plate in endpocket. 8vo (10 x 7 inches), 620-pages, original laminated coloured pictorial boards. Small nick to fore-edge of upper board, signature on front free endpaper; overall very good. £40.00 |
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MURPHY, ROBERT CUSHMAN: Oceanic Birds of South America. A Study of Species of the Related Coasts and Seas, including the American Quadrant of Anarctica. Two volumes.
New York: Macmillan, The American Museum of Natural History, 1936. First edition. Two volumes. Maps and 72 plates, some coloured. 4to (10 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches), 1245-pages, original green cloth; bindings rubbed but very sound. Bookplate.
£50.00
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PINTO, OLIVERIO MARIO DE OLIVEIRA: Ornitologia Brasiliense. Catalogo descritivo e ilustrado das Aves do Brasil. Primeiro volume. Parte introdutoria e Familias Rheidae a Cuculidae.
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Sao Paulo: Departamento de Zoologia da Secretaria da Agricultura, 1964. 25 coloured plates. Folio, pp.182:(1), original cloth backed boards, no dustwrapper. |
Spine bumped, creased and rubbed, boards foxed and browned along edges, and extremely bumped and rubbed at corners (with loss of surface); internally, joint partly broken following title-leaf. Numbered "590" on verso of title.
£35.00
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