Ornithology from Natural History Books

Mechanicsburg PA: Stackpole Books, 1994. First edition.. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.. Pp. xxxv, 588; 8 maps partially colored, numerous black-and-white photos and figures. Publisher’s original brown cloth over beige boards, lettered in gilt on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket, 4to. Wood ducks were almost hunted to extinction during the turn of… Read more about this item

Beijing: China Forestry Publishing House, 2006. First edition.. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.. Pp. 288; 1000+ color photographs. Color pictorial laminated boards, lettered in white on the spine and front cover, color pictorial dust jacket, lg 4to. Yunnan is a province in southwestern China with a varied landscape encompassing snow-capped mountains, rice terraces,… Read more about this item

Berkhamsted, England: Poyser, 1975. First edition.. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.. Pp. 256, 1 double-page color plate by G. Lodge, 16 black-and-white photos, some text figures. Publisher’s original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket, 8vo. Describes the complete life history Scottish pine crossbills. No ownership marks… Read more about this item

Copenhagen, Denmark: University of Copenhagen, 1990. First edition.. Some light tanning to the text block, a bright copy in near fine condition.. Pp. 880, 64 full page color plates, numerous distribution maps, 4 large partly-colored maps at rear, numerous marginal text-figures. Publisher’s original color pictorial laminated boards with color pictorial endpapers (hardcover), thick lg 8vo. Published… Read more about this item

Cleveland: The Bird Research Foundation, 1940. First edition.. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition in a very good dust jacket that is priced clipped.. Pp. xi, 192, 10 field sketches and line drawings by George Miksch Sutton, 7 photo-plates by the author. Publisher’s original moiré blue cloth, lettered in gold on the spine, green… Read more about this item

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1972. First edition.. A fine copy.. Pp. xiv, 226; 48 photos and text-figures. Publisher’s original pictorial pale green cloth, lettered in pale red on the spine and front cover, 8vo. Based on a six-year study of the Cactus Wren in the Saguaro National Monument in Arizona. Inscribed by the author… Read more about this item

Cleveland: The Bird Research Foundation, 1940. First edition.. Light browning to the title page, checkout slip and pocket removed from the two rear endpapers, light edge wear to cloth, a very good copy.. Pp. xi, 192, 10 field sketches and line drawings by George Miksch Sutton, 7 photo-plates by the author. Publisher’s original moiré blue cloth, lettered… Read more about this item

Cincinnati, OH: Cincinnati Museum of Natural History, 1994. First edition.. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.. Pp. (14) 15-196; 220+ color plates, numerous text-figures.  Publisher’s original beige textured cloth, spine lettered in gilt with printed gilt signature of Ruthven on the front cover, color pictorial dust jacket, sm folio (12 x 11.2 inches).  Includes an… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1960. First edition.. Near fine copy in complete very good dust jacket. . Pp. xvi, 561, 50 color plates by Alan Hughs, 30 black-and-white plates, 12 photos of habitats, one large color folding map at rear. Publisher’s original dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket, lg 8vo.… Read more about this item

Orono: University of Maine Studies, 1958. First edition.. A fine copy.. Pp. xv, 317, (2), 24 photo-plates, 16 text-figures. Later green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, 8vo. Univ. of Maine Studies, second series, no. 73. Name stamp of the Ron Sauey Memorial Library on rear endpaper and top page edge. Ron Sauey… Read more about this item

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. First edition.. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.. Pp. xii, 836; 69 full-page color and black-and-white plates by Guy Tudor and others, 1475 small distribution maps, some line-drawings by Michel Kleinbaum. Publisher’s original green cloth, lettered in silver on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket, thick large 8vo. … Read more about this item

New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1961-1962. First edition.. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. 182; 875 full page color plates. Black one-quarter leather over red cloth-covered boards, lettered in gilt on the spine, dark green endpapers, oblong folio (16.5 x 12.5 inches). Most of the large color plates are signed in the… Read more about this item

Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1989. First edition.. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.. Pp. i-ix, 511; 52 color plates by Dana Gardner, 17 figures of black-and-white photo. Publisher’s original gray cloth, lettered in black on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket, large 8vo. Describes an avifauna of 830 species in this tropical… Read more about this item

Washington, DC: Smithsonian, 1997. Second edition.. Fine copy in fine dust jacket.. Pp. xiii, 278; 24 full page color plates by Mark Marcuson and others, 49 distribution maps, numerous anatomical diagrams. Publisher’s gray cloth, lettered in black on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket. Small call number of the International Crane Foundation on the spine of… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1973. First American edition.. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.. Pp. 584, 158 fine color plates by noted bird artist William Cooper, 179 text figures and distribution maps. Publisher’s original dark red wine cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket, folio (395 x… Read more about this item

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1932. First edition.. Small bumps to two outer corners, some wear to cloth along the outer joints, a very good copy.. Pp. xxxviii, 1512, 92 fine color plates by A. Brooks, G. Sutton, A. Fuertes, and others, 606 text-figures, 5 maps. Publisher’s original dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine… Read more about this item

New York: Harper and Row, 1978. First American edition.. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.. Pp. 304, 41 full page color plates from paintings by R. Gilmor and P. Hayman, 6 distribution maps. Dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket, folio. Covers 61 species of herons across the… Read more about this item

Johannesburg, South Africa: Natural History Books, 1990. Limited edition.. A fine copy in a fine slipcase. . Pp. (15), (42), 21 full page color plates from paintings by C.G. Finch-Davies, each accompanied by a page of hand-written notes in facsimile, covering the period 28 March 1918 to 4 April 1920, pp. 21 (descriptions of birds), (10, index). … Read more about this item

Cape Town, South Africa: Struik Publishers, 1993. First edition.. A fine copy in a fine slipcase.. Pp. 137 (6, subscribers); 250+ color photographs by Dennis Nigel. Publisher’s original blue cloth, front cover with inset color photograph of a Kingfisher, spine with black leather title label lettered in gilt, housed in a blue cloth slipcase that is leather-tipped… Read more about this item

Boston: David R. Godine, 1977. First edition. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.. Pp. xiii, 430, 41 color plates of rails from paintings by J. Fenwick Lansdowne, 17 distribution maps, 10 black-and-white photos of rails at rear, 26 black-and-white text-figures in chapter on fossil rails by Storrs L. Olson. One-quarter burgundy-red cloth, spine lettered… Read more about this item