Zoologia e fauna

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

1920 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

J. Robertson & Co. St. Annes-on-the-Sea 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..

Great Bird Illustrations Postcards in Full Colour

1993 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Natural History Museum / Dover Publications London / New York , . . 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 ...

Predatory Birds in Britain

Avian Predators Working Party · 1970 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

British Field Sports Society London 64, b/w illus. . PB. Vg.. Illustrations and cover design by Ian Willis..

Practical Taxidermy: A Manual of Instruction to the Amateur in Collecting, Preserving, and Setting up Natural History Specimens of all Kinds

Browne, Montagu · 0 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

The Bazaar London 155, [5]-ads, 39 text figs. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, gilt title and vignette of tiger skin to front board, spine slightly faded, minor wear to extremities; light foxing to prelims. Vg. Bookplate of W.H.B Fletcher. William Holland Ballet Fletcher (1852-1941) wa...

Nature-Tones and Undertones being sketches of life in the open illustrated by photographs from nature

Boraston, John Maclair · 1905 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Sherratt & Hughes London viii, 233, vi, frontis, 17 b/w plates. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, gilt, teg, other edges uncut. Endpapers browned. Name to endpaper. Vg.. This collection of essays, or 'sketches', belongs to the early twentieth-century tradition of reflective, observation...

Birds by Land & Sea: The record of a year's work with field-glass and camera

Boraston, John Maclair · 1905 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

John Lane: The Bodley Head London & New York xvi, 282, [6]-ads, frontis, 51 b/w photographic plates. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, gilt dec., teg, other edges uncut. Endpapers browned, slight foxing to prelims. Near contemporary gift inscription to endpaper. Vg.. First edition. Illu...

Bird Study in a GardenA Book for Bird Watchers (Puffin Picture Book No. 106)

Ennion, E.A.R. · 1958 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)

Penguin Harmondsworth 31, col + b/w illus. . PB. Orig. wrappers (173x222mm). Vg.. Scarce..

Tracks and Signs of the Birds of Britain and Europe: An Identification Guide

Brown, R.; Ferguson, J.; Lawrence, M.; Lees, J. · 1987 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Helm London 232, 30 colour plates, col+b/w illus. . HB. Vg in d/w.. First edition. Jacket illustration by David Quinn.. [9780747002017]

The EBCC Atlas of European Breeding Birds: Their Distribution and Abundance

Hagemeijer, W.J.M.; Blair, M.J. · 1997 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Poyser London cxlii, 903, distribution maps, line drawings. 4to. HB. Vg in d/w (spine slightly sunned).. 1st edition. Published for the European Bird Census Council. This landmark volume presents an integrated picture of the distribution and abundance of the breeding birds of ...

Game Birds and Wild Fowl of the British Islands

Dixon, Charles · 1900 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

Pawson & Brailsford Sheffield xxviii, 476, 41 col plates. . HB. 4to, orig. dec. cloth, gilt title to spine. Light foxing to first and last few leaves. Well-preserved, attractive copy. Vg. Attractive book-plate of the ornithologist J.E. Wightman.. Second edition, enlarged, impr...

The Book of Baby Birds

Detmold, E.J. (Illus); Dugdale, F.E. · 1919 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press London 120, 19 col plates. . HB. 4to (280x233mm), orig. cloth spine, paper covered boards, slightly marked, circular pictorial onlay to front board. Endpapers browned and lightly foxed. Small contemporary gift inscription to endpaper. ...

Insects of Samoa. Pt IV. Coleoptera: Fasc. 5: Curculionidae

Marshall, G. · 1931 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

BM(NH) London 98, 31 text figs. . PB. Wrappers, small tear with loss to rear cover. Vg. .

British Waders

Arnold, E.C. · 1924 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

Cambridge University Press Cambridge viii, 102, 51 col plates. . HB. 4to (300x230mm), orig. qtr vellum, green cloth boards, gt, worn leather title piece to spine, teg, other edges uncut. Foxing to blank verso of some plates and occasionally to tissue guards. Vg.. Limited editi...

British Waders

Arnold, E.C. · 1924 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

Cambridge University Press Cambridge viii, 102, 51 col plates. . HB. 4to (295x230mm), orig. red cloth, gt, teg, other edges uncut. Occasional light foxing. Vg in d/w (minor edge wear; spine sunned; light spotting; in removable protective sleeve).. First edition. Illustrated wi...

Zoological Recreations

Broderip, W.J. · 1858 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Ward, Lock & Tyler London vi, 382, col frontis, 15 plain plates, woodcuts to text. . HB. 8vo, orig. blue full calf, rebacked in blue buckram with orig. leather backstrip (rubbed, worn) laid down, raised bands, gilt tooling to compartments, leather title piece; marbled endpaper...

Birds of Berkshire: Atlas and Avifauna

Bucknell, N.; Clews, B.; Righelato, R.; Robinson, C. · 2013 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

BBAG Reading 520, col photos, line drawings, maps. 300x220mm. HB. Vg in d/w (short tear to bottom edge of front panel; in removable protective sleeve). Signed by the second author, Brian Clews, to title page.. 2nd edition, fully revised and updated. Shows the dramatic changes ...

Heligoland as an Ornithological Observatory: The Result of Fifty Years' Experience

Gätke, H. · 1895 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

David Douglas Edinburgh xii, 599, [20]-ads, portrait frontis, b/w illus. . HB. Roy. 8vo (253x175mm), recased in orig. cloth, gt, teg, new endpapers; minor wear, corner slightly bumped. Previous owner's name to title-page and short note to end of preface. Vg.. Translated by Rud...

Notes on the Birds of the Urban District of Wilmslow, Cheshire

Bell, T.H.; Pownall, L.A.; Samuels, L.P. · 1955 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

T. Buncle & Co. Arbroath 11, map. . PB. Orig. wrappers, dulled to one edge. Vg.. Reprinted from <i>The North Western Naturalist</i> Sept/Dec 1955 p. 383-393..

Studies of British Birds

Murray, David K. Wolfe ('Fish-Hawk') · 1937 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Duckworth London 144, frontis, 34 b/w plates. . HB. 8vo, orig. red cloth, gt. Vg in worn/torn d/w, with some loss (in removable protective sleeve).. First edition. With a Foreword by the Earl of Radnor. Illustrated by the author..

Birds through the Year

Murray, David K. Wolfe ('Fish-Hawk') · 1938 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Duckworth London 96, col frontis, 36 plain plates. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, spine faded. Endpapers browned, some occasional light foxing. Name to endpaper. Good.. First edition. With a Foreword by J. Wentworth Day. Illustrations by the author..