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Fair Isle Bird Observatory First Annual Report 1949. Fair Isle Bird Observatory Trust, 1949. 1st Edition. Clean tight copy. Some marking around the staples. Good. Softcover. (2922) £6.00

The Godman Collection of Watercolours for John Gould's 'The Birds of Great Britain'. London : Christie's , 1994. 1st Edition. Scarce original sales catalogue, specially printed by Christie's for the sale of the original watercolours to John Gould's 'The Birds of Great Britain'. With detailed descriptions. Near fine. Hardcover. (1463) £30.00

The Library of H Bradley Martin. John James Audubon. Magnificent Books and Manuscripts. New York : Sotheby's, 1989. 1st Edition. Produced for a major library sale. Extensively illustrated and with detailed commentary from the auctioneers. Near fine. Hardcover. (1468) £8.00

The Library of H Bradley Martin. The Original Watercolours for Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology. New York : Sotheby's, 1989. 1st Edition. Published by Sotheby's for their major sale of artwork by Prideaux John Selby. Extensively illustrated with detailed commentary by the auctioneers. Near fine. Hardcover. (1469) £20.00

The West Midland Bird Report - 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966. W Midlands : West Midlands Bird Club , various. 1st Edition. Near fine. Softcover. (1411) £10.00

A J Harthan. The Birds of Worcestershire. Worcester : Littlebury and Company Ltd. 1st Edition. Very good + in very good dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1346) £8.00

A J Prater. Estuary Birds of Britain and Ireland. Calton : T & A D Poyser Ltd, 1981. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 029 1. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1319) £9.00

A J Prater, J H Marchant, J Vuorinen. Guide to the Identification & Ageing of Holarctic Waders; British Trust for Ornithology Field Guide 17. Norwich: British Trust for Ornithology , 1997. reprint. Near fine. Softcover. (1408) £6.00

Adrian Pitches and Tim Cleeves. Birds New to Britain 1980 - 2004. London: T & A D Poyser, 2005. 1st edition, 2nd printing. ISBN: 9780713670226. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1336) £10.00 Andrew Village. The Kestrel. London : T & A D Poyser, 1990. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 054 2§§§. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (96) £35.00

Andy Brown and Phil Grice. Birds in England. London: T & A D Poyser , 2005. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 7136 6530 0. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1293) £15.00

Angela Turner and Chris Rose. A Handbook to the Swallows and Martins of the World; Helm Identification Guide. London: Christopher Helm , 1989. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 7470 3202 5. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1606) £15.00

Anne Pratt. The Ferns of Great Britain and their allies the Club-Mosses, Pepperworts and Horsetails. London: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1855. 1st Edition. A good copy with 41 colour printed plates of ferns. Anne Pratt was one of the few women authors who were able to publish under their own name. She illustrated and wrote a number of works on plants, and also birds. Her work was considered of lesser merit than that of her male counterparts, however she was extremely popular as a writer and introduced many to the pleasures of plant hunting and identification. This copy is undated but probably 1855 - there is a signature showing the book was purchased in 1857. The binding looks like it has been chewed by someone's hound and it is also showing a lot of cloth wear to the spine. The contents, however, are extremely clean with each plate tissue-guarded. One owner was clearly a fern enthusiast because there are a number of scholarly annotations and a few pressed ferns had to be removed from the book. Good. Decorative cloth. (732) £50.00

Anthony J Gaston. Seabirds A Natural History. New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 2004. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 300 10406 5. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1337) £15.00

Arne Lundberg and Rauno V Alatalo. The Pied Flycatcher. London : T & A D Poyser, 1992. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 072 0. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (103) £35.00

Bertel Bruun. Common Birds of Egypt. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1985. 1st Edition. ISBN: 9774240626. Illustrated by Sherif Baha el Din. Some marking to inside front cover and ownership signature to title. Good. Softcover. (2805) £3.00

Bobby Tulloch, Fred Hunter. A Guide to Shetland Birds. Lerwick : The Shetland Times Limited , 1972. Revised Edition. Clean copy - profusely illustrated and with folding map at rear cover. Good. Softcover. (4238) £3.00

Brian Clews, Andrew Heryet and Paul Trodd. Where to Watch Birds in Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire & Oxfordshire. London: Christopher Helm, 1987. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 7470 0401 3. Good +. Softcover. (1352) £5.00

Brian P Martin. Birds of Prey of the British Isles. Newton Abbot : DavId & Charles, 1992. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 7153 9782 6. Illustrated by Alastair Proud. Near fine in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1582) £10.00

Bruce Campbell and Elizabeth Lack (editors). A Dictionary of Birds. Calton: T & A D Poyser, 1985. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 039 9. Near fine copy, slight marking to foredge. Near fine in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (106) £20.00

Bryan Nelson. Seabirds - their biology and ecology. London: Hamlyn , 1980. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 600 38227 3. Near fine in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1305) £10.00

C F Tunnicliffe. Mereside Chronicle with a short interlude of Lochs and Lochans. London: Country Life Limited, 1948. 1st Edition. Some creases to the odd page. Good + in good + dust- jacket. Hardcover. (1587) £12.00 C F Tunnicliffe. The Peregrine Sketchbook. London: Excellent Press, 1996. 1st Edition. ISBN: 1 9003318 02 4. Very good + in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1586) £8.00

C H Fry. The Bee-Eaters. Calton : T & A D Poyser Ltd, 1984. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 037 2. Very good + in very good dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1333) £20.00

C Jennings. The Eggs of British Birds. Bath : Binns and Goodwin , circa 1853. 1st Edition. Scarce Victorian work on birds' eggs. In original decorative cloth binding with colour illustrations by Dickes. Binding very bright and clean. Some reinforcement to spine ends. Slight bumping to top corners. Contents complete with frontispiece; vignette title and 6 further hand-coloured plates. Publisher's catalogue to rear. Very good internally with occasional marking to top page edges and some spottting to foredge. Very good. Decorative cloth. (2829) £40.00

C R Bree. A History of the Birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles. London: Groombridge and Sons, 1863. 1st Edition. A good copy of the 4 volume 1st edition with 239 hand coloured plates. The original cloth bindings have gilt illustration and titles to front boards and spine. All have a degree of fading and wear, with VoIumes I and II being slightly shaken (and with an old attempt at repair to an endpaper joint in Vol I). Contents complete - each volume has a frontispiece and title - Vol I pp xv, text 206 pp with 60 plates. Vol II 203 pp with 60 plates. Vol III 247 pp with 60 plates. Vol IV text 183 pp with 49 plates; appendix pp 185-222 with 10 plates; bibliography, lists, index and errata. Occasional light spotting but generally clean. Good. Decorative cloth. (12) £350.00

Charles A Hall. A Pocket Book of British Birds' Eggs and Nests. London : Adam and Charles Black, 1939. 1st Edition. In very good clean condition with numerous black and white and colour illustrations. Very good in poor dust-jacket. Hardcover. (169) £4.00

Charles Dixon. The Migration of British Birds including Their Post-Glacial Emigrations as Traced by the Application of a New Law of Dispersal being a contribution to the study of migration, geographical distribution, and insular faunas. London: Chapman and Hall, 1895. 1st Edition. Original cloth binding in good condition with wear to edges and corners. Internally some spotting to initial and final leaves. Marking to top of title page and preface. Armorial bookplate to front endpaper and signature to verso of free endpaper. With 6 folding colour maps. Good. Hardcover. (2114) £8.00

Charles Hamilton-Smith. The Naturalist's Library. Vol XV Mammalia. Introduction to Mammalia. London : Chatto & Windus , 1870's. Reprint. A fair later reprint of a volume from the Naturalist's Library, edited by Sir William Jardine. The Library, which consisted of a series of volumes on insects, fish, birds and mammals, was first published by Lizars from 1833-1843. The text and illustrations were of extremely high quality and it was much reprinted. The illustrations in the Chatto edition are still hand coloured but some of the attention to details and quality from the original publication has gone. The binding is worn, particularly at the spine and edges, and is slightly shaken. Contents with black and white frontispiece, vignette title and 31 hand coloured plates in fair to good condition with some light spotting at times. Fair. Quarter buckram with cloth boards. (173) £30.00

Chris and Jean Booth. Sillocks, Skarfies and Selkies; The Fish, Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds and Mammals of Orkney. Kirkwall : The Orcadian Limited, 2005. 1st Edition. ISBN: 1 902957 24 5. Near fine. Softcover. (349) £6.00

Chris Booth. The Birds of Orkney; Aspects of Orkney 2. Stromness: The Orkney Press, 1984. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 907 618 07 3. Very good + in very good dust-jacket. Hardcover. (363) £12.00 Chris Booth. The Birds of Orkney; Aspects of Orkney 2. Stromness: The Orkney Press, 1984. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 907 618 07 3. Near fine clean copy with some light edge wrinkle to jacket. Loose map of Stronsay and bird notes included. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (4132) £12.00

Chris Booth, Mildred Cuthbert and Eric Meek (editors). Orkney Bird Report 1994. Kirkwall : June 1995. 1st Edition. Scarce listing of bird sightings from 1994 Very good +. Softcover. (496) £4.00

Chris Mead. the state of the nation's birds. Stowmarket: Whittet Books, 2001. 2nd Printing. ISBN: 1 873580 45 2. A very good clean copy. Foreward by Tony Soper and illustrations by Kevin Baker. 252pp with index. Very good. Paperback. (5) £2.50

Christopher Perrins. British Tits; New Naturalist. London : Collins , 1979. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 00 219537 2. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (168) £15.00

Christopher Perrins. British Tits; The New Naturalist Series. London : Collins , 1979. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 00 219537 2. Very good clean copy. Some old pencil markings to front endpaper. Binding clean and bright. Wrapper complete but with some reinforcement. Very good in good dust-jacket. Hardcover. (246) £15.00

Christopher Perrins. British Tits; The New Naturalist Series. London : Collins , 1979. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 00 219537 2. Very good clean copy internally. Binding slightly bumped. Wrapper with some staining and repaired tears. Very good in fair dust-jacket. Hardcover. (4119) £10.00

Clare Lloyd. Birdwatching on estuaries, coast and sea; Severn House Naturalist's Library. London: Severn House Publishers, 1981. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 7278 2003 6. Fine in near fine dust- jacket. Hardcover. (1366) £4.00

Clare Lloyd, Mark L Tasker, Ken Partridge. The Status of Seabirds in Britain and Ireland. London: T & A D Poyser, 1991. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 061 5. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1330) £9.00

Clifford Oakes. The Birds of Lancashire. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1953. 1st Edition. A nice clean copy in dust wrapper, complete with 2 maps and 31 photographic plates. The cloth binding is slightly bubbled to the front but is very clean. There is a small ink signature to the front endpaper. Some light spotting at the end of the book. 371pp. Very good in fair dust-jacket. Cloth. (10) £25.00

Clive Byers, Urban Olsson and Jon Curson. Buntings and Sparrows. A Guide to the Buntings and North American Sparrows. E Sussex : Pica Press , 1995. 1st Edition. ISBN: 1 873403 19 4. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1307) £30.00

Clive D Hutchinson. Birds in Ireland. Calton : T & A D Poyser, 1989. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 052 6. Very good + in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1616) £15.00

Clive Finlayson. Birds of the Strait of Gibraltar. London : T & A D Poyser, 1992. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 066 6. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (92) £30.00

Colin Course, Tim Dean, Jim Williams (editors). Orkney Bird Report 1999. Kirkwall : The Orkney Bird Report Committee, 2000. 1st Edition. Scarce listing of bird sightings from 1999 Good +. Softcover. (3850) £4.00

Colin Harrison. An Atlas of the Birds of the Western Palaearctic. London : Collins, 1982. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 00 219729 4. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (605) £10.00

Colin R Shawyer. The Barn Owl in the British Isles. Its Past, Present and Future. London: The Hawk Trust, 1987. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 9503187 2 8. Very good +. Softcover. (1687) £6.00 D C Jardine, J Clarke and P M Clarke. The Birds of Colonsay and Oransay. Stornoway : Stornoway Gazette, 1989. 1st reprint. Good +. Softcover. (1711) £2.00

D J Robertson. Notes from a Bird Sanctuary. Kirkwall : The Orcadian , 1934. 1st Edition. With bookplate of John Davie Manson Robertson to front endpaper and inscription by the author. Binding sound but browned and stained. Contents - a series of articles from the Orcadian 1932-3 - very good condition. Good. Hardcover. (352) £30.00

D S Bunn, A B Warburton, R D S Wilson. The Barn Owl. Calton : T & A D Poyser, 1982. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 032 1. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (100) £20.00

D S Bunn, A B Warburton, R D S Wilson. The Barn Owl. Calton : T & A D Poyser Ltd, 1982. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 032 1. Very good + in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1320) £20.00

D W Taylor, D L Davenport and J J M Flegg. The Birds of Kent. A Review of their Status and Distribution. Meopham : The Kent Ornithological Society, 1981. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 9507418 0 9. Very good in very good dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1612) £6.00

David Armitage Bannerman. The Birds of the British Isles Volume 1. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1953. 1st Edition. Bookplate of Philip Holloway to front endpaper. Vol I of the series covering Corvidae, Oriolidae, Sturnidae and Fringillidae. With 41 plates. 356pp. Contents very clean. Crease to rear endpaper. Binding with light wear. Very good. Hardcover. (739) £22.00

David Armitage Bannerman. The Birds of the British Isles Volume 10. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1961. 1st Edition. Bookplate of Philip Holloway to front endpaper. Volume covers Scolopacidae, Charadriidae, Recurvirostridae and Haematopodidae (sandpipers, shanks, plovers, dotterel, lapwings, avocet, stilt and oystercatcher. A very good clean copy. Binding with some fading and wear. 23 plates. 320pp. Very good. Hardcover. (738) £22.00

David Armitage Bannerman. The Birds of the British Isles Volume 11. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1962. 1st Edition. This volume covers Glareolae and Lariformes (gulls and terns). A very good copy in original green cloth with 32 plates. 368pp. Contents in very good clean condition. Binding with some fading to spine and a little scuffing. Very good. Hardcover. (736) £22.00

David Armitage Bannerman. The Birds of the British Isles Volume 12. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1963. 1st Edition. A very good copy with 31 plates. 443 pp. With bookplate of Philip Holloway to front endpaper. Contents including skuas, auks, rails, crakes et al, and game birds. Binding slightly faded with pulling to spine. Very good. Hardcover. (746) £22.00

David Armitage Bannerman. The Birds of the British Isles Volume 2. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1953. 1st Edition. Bookplate of Philip Holloway to front endpaper. Contents in very good clean condition with 41 plates. 301pp. Covering Passeres (part). Binding in very good clean condition with some pulling to spine. Very good. Hardcover. (745) £22.00

David Armitage Bannerman. The Birds of the British Isles Volume 3. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1954. 1st Edition. Bookplate of Philip Holloway to front endpaper. This volume covers Sylviidae, Troglodytidae, Turdidae, Cinclidae, Prunellidae and Hirundinidae. Contents in very good clean condition with 51 plates. 399pp. Binding with pulling to spine and wear at edges and corners. Very good. Hardcover. (740) £22.00

David Armitage Bannerman. The Birds of the British Isles Volume 4. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1955. 1st Edition. Bookplate of Philip Holloway to front endpaper. Contents in very good clean condition with 29 plates. 259pp. Some creasing to free endpapers. Covers Apodidae, Coraciidae, Caprimulgidae, Alcedinidae, Meropidae, Picidae, Upupidae, Cuculidae and Strigidae. Binding with light pulling to spine and slight marking to boards. Very good. Hardcover. (741) £22.00 David Armitage Bannerman. The Birds of the British Isles Volume 5. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1956. 1st Edition. Contents clean; some ink spatter to top page edge. With 34 plates, 350pp. Covers Falconidae, Aegypiidae, Accipitridae, Pandionidae. Binding in very good clean condition. Very good. Hardcover. (744) £22.00

David Armitage Bannerman. The Birds of the British Isles Volume 6. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1957. 1st Edition. Contents in fine clean condition with 26 plates, 326pp. Covers Ciconiidae, Phoenicopteriidae, Ardeidae, Anatidae (part). Binding clean with some pulling to spine and bumped corners. Very good +. Hardcover. (743) £22.00

David Armitage Bannerman. The Birds of the British Isles Volume 7. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1958. 1st Edition. Very good copy with 27 plates. 250pp. Covers the remaining Anatidae. Contents very clean with some creasing to index pp. Binding in very good clean condition with some wear to spine. Very good. Hardcover. (747) £22.00

David Armitage Bannerman. The Birds of the British Isles Volume 8. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1959. 1st Edition. This volume covers Pelicaniformes - cormorants, shag, frigate birds, gannet - then Tubinares - petrels etc; and diving birds (Podicipediformes and Gaviiformes) and Columbiformes (pigeons and doves) and Ptericletiformes. Contents in very good clean condition; binding with some pulling and fading to spine and rubbing to corners. Very good. Hardcover. (737) £22.00

David Armitage Bannerman. The Birds of the British Isles Volume 9. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1961. 1st Edition. Contents in fine clean condition with 26 plates. 398pp. Covers Scolopacidae (part). Binding with some fading to the spine. Very good +. Hardcover. (742) £22.00

David Armitage Bannerman. The Birds of the British Isles Volumes I-XII. Edinburgh, London : Oliver and Boyd , 1953-1963. 1st Edition. Complete 1st edition 12 volume set with 387 colour plates by George Lodge. 10 volumes in dustwrappers (one with wrapper attached to book); 2 without wrapper - Vol III has a worn binding. Very clean condition, occasional spotting to plate margins and foredge. Most volumes in very good/near fine state. Very good + in good + dust- jacket. Hardcover. (564) £240.00

David Attenborough. The Life of Birds. London: BBC Publications , 1998. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0563387920. Signed by David Attenborough on the half title page. Small ownership sticker to front endpaper. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1940) £60.00

David Brewer. Wrens, Dippers and Thrashers. London: Christopher Helm , 2001. 1st Edition. ISBN: 1 873403 95 x. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1609) £20.00

David Lack. Swifts in a Tower. London: Methuen and Co Ltd, 1956. 1st Edition. Beautifully written study on swifts. Good +. Hardcover. (2115) £10.00

David N Nettleship and Tim R Birkhead (editors). The Atlantic Alcidae. The Evolution, Distribution and Biology of the Auks Inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean and Adjacent Water Areas. London: Academic Press, 1985. 1st Edition, 2nd printing. ISBN: 0 12 515671 5. Fine. Softcover. (1365) £15.00

David Norman and Vic Tucker. Where to Watch Birds in Devon & Cornwall. London: Christopher Helm, 1991. 2nd edition. ISBN: 0 7136 8051 2. Very good +. Softcover. (1355) £5.00

David Norman and Vic Tucker. Where to Watch Birds in Devon & Cornwall. London: Christopher Helm, 1991. 2nd edition. ISBN: 0 7136 8051 2. Very good +. Softcover. (1356) £5.00

David Parnaby (editor). Fair Isle Bird Observatory. Report for 2014. Fair Isle : Fair Isle Bird Observatory Trust , 2016. 1st Edition. Near fine. Softcover. (1520) £5.00 David Wingfield Gibbons, James B Reid, Robert A Chapman. The New Atlas of Breeding Birds in Britain and Ireland: 1988-1991. London : T & A D Poyser , 1993. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 075 5. Very good in very good dust-jacket. (190) £20.00

Derek Niemann. Birds in a Cage. London: Short Books, 2012. 1st Edition. ISBN: 9781780720937. Fascinating account of a birdwatching society which began in a German POW camp in 1941. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (4372) £24.00

Derek Onley, Paul Scofield. Albatrosses, Petrels and Shearwaters of the World; Helm Field Guide. London: Christopher Helm , 2007. 1st Edition. ISBN: 978 0 7136 4332 9. Near fine. softcover. (1345) £20.00

Derek Ratcliffe. Bird life of mountain and upland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 521 33123 4. Near fine clean copy of the 1st edition, signed by the illustrator, Chris Rose. 256pp including index. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (2) £15.00

Derek Ratcliffe. The Peregrine Falcon. Calton : T & A D Poyser, 1980. 1st Edition. ISBN: o 85661 026 7. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (98) £15.00

Derek Ratcliffe. The Peregrine Falcon. Calton : T & A D Poyser Ltd, 1980. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 026 7. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1309) £13.00

Desmond and Maimie Nethersole-Thompson. Greenshanks. Birkhamsted : T & A D Poyser, 1979. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 022 4. Some marking to endpapers. Very good + in very good dust- jacket. Hardcover. (1302) £20.00

Desmond and Maimie Nethersole-Thompson. Greenshanks. Vermillion : Buteo Books , 1979. 1st US. ISBN: 0 931130 02 6. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1335) £12.00

Desmond E Widgery. Over the Arabian Gulf; De Mont's Art Folio of Birds. New Zealand : De Mont Publications, 1982. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 473 00247 7. With 40 tipped-in colour plates. Very good + in fair dust-jacket. Hardcover. (574) £10.00

Desmond Nethersole-Thompson. Pine Crossbills; A Scottish contribution. Birkhamsted : T & A D Poyser Ltd, 1975. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 011 9. Very good + in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1301) £25.00

Donald Watson. A Bird Artist in Scotland. London: H F & G Witherby Ltd , 1988. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0854931678. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (3926) £3.00

Donald Watson. Birds of Moor and Mountain. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1972. 1st Edition. ISBN: 7011 1843 1. Some fading to boards and browning/nibbling to dustwrapper. With illustrations by Donald Watson. Very good in good dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1583) £15.00

Donald Watson. The Hen Harrier. Berkhamsted: T & A D Poyser, 1977. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 015 1. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (99) £20.00

Dorete Bloch and Soren Sorensen. Yvirlit Yvir Foroya Fuglar; Checklist of Faroese Birds. Torshavn : Foroya Skolabokagnunnur , 1984. 1st Edition. Very good +. Softcover. (839) £5.00

E M Nicholson. Birds & Men; The New Naturalist Series. London : Collins , 1951. 1st Edition. Binding faded but sound. Contents clean - some marking to front endpaper and pages lightly toned to edges. Wrapper browned and with some loss. Good + in fair dust-jacket. Hardcover. (248) £8.00

Eddie Maguire. Birds in Kintyre; A discursive site guide with status and seasonality checklist. Argyll: Peninsula Wildlife Publications, 2003. New edition. Small informative booklet illustrated with drawings by the author. In very good clean condition. 77 pp with blank pages added for notes. Very good. Paperback. (8) £2.00

Edmund Sandars. A Bird Book for the Pocket. London: Oxford University Press, 1939. 3rd edition. Clean internally with some nice illustrations. Binding faded and marked. Fair. Hardcover. (3779) £3.00

Edmund Sandars. A Bird Book for the Pocket. London: Oxford University Press, 1954. 4th edition. Nice clean copy. Good +. Hardcover. (3930) £3.00

Edmund Selous. The Bird Watcher in the Shetlands; with some notes on seals and digressions. London : J M Dent & Co, 1905. 1st Edition. Very good clean copy in newer binding with new endpapers. With 10 plates by J Smit - mainly of seals and penguins. Very good +. Hardcover. (309) £20.00

Edward Stanley. A Familiar History of Birds; their nature, habits, and instincts. London: John W Parker, 1851. 5th edition. In contemporary full leather binding with gilt decorative compartments and title label to spine and gilt rules to boards. With armorial bookplate of Amelia Dobree to front pastedown endpaper and further armorial plate with the motto 'tout droit' to the free endpaper. Page edges and endpapers marbled. Signature of Amelia Dobree to initial blank. Page marker loose in book. Newspaper cutting on swallows pasted to rear of frontispiece. Contents complete with numerous full page black and white plates and engravings in the text. Binding with splitting at the top of the front spine joint and general rubbing to joints and edges. Contents very clean. Good +. Full calf. (2783) £10.00

Elizabeth Balmer. A Field Guide to the Birds of the British Isles. Bath : Parragon , 2007. 1st Edition. ISBN: 9781405443920. Some creasing to front cover. Very good. Softcover. (3869) £2.00

Eric Hardy. A guide to the birds of Scotland. London: Constable, 1978. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 09 461170 x. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1360) £8.00

Eric Hosking and Cyril Newberry. Birds of the Night. London: Collins, 1945. 1st Edition. Nice clean copy. Some browning to edges of binding. Wrapper with some edge tearing and nibbling. Good + in good dust-jacket. Hardcover. (2116) £5.00

Eric Hosking, Cyril Newberry. Birds of the Day. London : Collins, 1944. 1st Edition. Very good in poor dust-jacket. Hardcover. (403) £3.00

Eric Hosking, with Kevin MacDonnell. Eric Hosking's Birds. Fifty Years of Photographing Wildlife. London: Pelham Books Ltd, 1979. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0730741630. Nice clean copy internally. Jacket secured to binding at endpapers. Near fine in good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (2107) £3.00

Eric Simms. British Thrushes; The New Naturalist Series. London : Collins , 1978. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 00 219670 0. Very good clean copy. Some old marking to front endpaper. Binding clean and sound. Wrapper with edge nibbling and small hole to front cover; price clipped. Very good in fair dust-jacket. Hardcover. (247) £15.00

Evelyn V Baxter and Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul. The Geographical Distribution and Status of Birds in Scotland. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1928. 1st Edition. In very good condition with very good wrapper. Contents clean with light toning towards page edges. Top page edges gilted, remainder untrimmed. 425 pp with index. Very good in very good dust-jacket. Cloth. (7) £50.00

F B Kirkman and F C R Jourdain. British Birds. London and Edinburgh : T Nelson and Sons; T C & E C Jack Ltd, 1935. 1st Nelson/Jack edition. Very good + in good dust-jacket. Decorative cloth. (2781) £20.00 F O Morris. A History of British Birds. Vol VIII. A single volume from the 8 volume printing of Morris' birds by Groombridge published between 1863-67. The whole work, first published in 1850- 7. Binding wobbly and stained, contents beginning to become loose with some grubbiness. All 44 colour plates of seabirds are present. A very comprehensive work with detailed information about sightings - including many Orkney references. 156 pp. Poor. decorative cloth. (9) £5.00

F O Morris. A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds. Vol III only. London: George Bell and Sons, 1875. 2nd edition. Published in 3 volumes, of which this is the 3rd. With colour frontispiece and 75 further colour plates. Some text unopened; one plate detached. Very clean. Good +. Decorative cloth. (1599) £80.00

F S Mitchell, revised and annotated by Howard Saunders. The Birds of Lancashire. London: Gurney and Jackson, 1892. Second Edition. A good copy in original cloth binding, with folding map of Lancashire. With decorative bookplate to front pastedown endpaper and plate of the Scottish Ornithologists' Club to the front free endpaper. Owned by K Williamson, an expert on birds in NW England. The binding is sound with the usual wear to corners and edges. Contents complete - but with a section of text bound out of sequence - pp 49-64 are sitting between pp 96-99! 271pp with publisher's adverts to rear. Very clean with light toning at edges and a little spotting at the rear. Good +. Cloth. (11) £25.00

Frank Finn. Eggs and Nests of British Birds. London: Hutchinson and Co, 1910. 1st Edition. In original decorative cloth binding. Well illustrated. Binding with some marking to spine and front board. Wear to spine ends and corners. Contents clean with some spotting to foredge. Good. Hardcover. (3100) £3.00

Frank Finn and E Kay Robinson. Birds of our Country. Their Eggs, Nests, Life, Haunts and Identification Vols I & II. London: Hutchinson & Co, Circa 1922. Originally issued in parts. Nice copy - profusely illustrated. A sad reminder of just how many birds have ceased to be commonplace in Britain over the last century. Very good. Half leather. (3078) £6.00

Frank Shaw. Birds of America. London: Dragon's World, 1990. 1st Edition. ISBN: 1 85028 082 7. A nice copy - some wear to board edges and top corners bumped. Very good in very good dust- jacket. Hardcover. (1880) £10.00

G Butler, Henry O Forbes, G V Aplin, H A Macpherson, John Cordeaux, W B Tegetmeier, Murray A Mathew, Henry H Slater. British Birds with their Nests and Eggs. London: Brumby & Clarke, Limited , 1896-9. 1st Edition. Authoritative work in 6 volumes with 24 colour plates of birds' eggs and 318 plain plates of birds by F W Frohawk. The quality of the plain plates particularly is superb. In the original binding with green buckram spine and corners and cloth boards. Gilt titles to front boards and spine. Page edges untrimmed. Vol I, 3 colour and 56 plain plates - 208pp; Vol II, 4 colour and 51 plain plates - 192 pp; Vol III, 6 colour and 45 plain plates - 175 pp; Vol IV, 2 colour and 55 plain plates - 219 pp; Vol V, 3 colour and 62 plain plates - 178 pp; Vol VI, 6 colour and 49 plain plates - 252 pp - includes index to the egg plates. All the bindings are generally clean but with pulling to top and bottom of spines and wear and bumping to corners and edges. Internally the contents are clean - both text and plates. The egg plates are tissue-guarded. The page edges are untrimmed and tend to have browning and an occasional small paper tear.Vol II has a repaired tear to the edge of the fep. One plate in Vol IV has a long repaired tear to the inner margin not affecting the image. Very occasional marking - a good set overall. Good +. Hardcover. (1274) £200.00

Garth Christian. Down the Long Wind. A Study of Bird Migration. London: Newnes, 1961. 1st Edition. Very good + in very good dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1828) £4.00 George Green and Martin Cade. Where to Watch Birds in Dorset, Hampshire & the Isle of Wight. London: Christopher Helm, 1989. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 7470 1208 3. Very good +. Softcover. (1358) £5.00

George Mackay Brown. The Golden Bird. London: Grafton , 1989. Reprint. ISBN: 0586204660. Toning to pages. Fair. Softcover. (3588) £2.00

Graham Harrison, Steve Coney, Frank Gribble et al. Where to Watch Birds in West Midlands - Herefordshire, Staffordshire, the former West Midlands County, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Shropshire. London: Christopher Helm, 2007. 1st Edition. ISBN: 978 0 7136 6419 5. Very good +. Softcover. (1359) £8.00

Graham Martin. Birds by Night. London: T & A D Poyser, 1990. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 059 3. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1610) £25.00

Graham R Harrison (editor). The Birds of the West Midlands. Warwickshire : West Midlands Bird Club , 1982. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 9507881 04. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1298) £12.00

H Eliot Howard. The British Warblers. A History with problems of their lives. London : R H Porter, 1907-14. 1st Edition. Illustrated by Henrik Gronwold. 2 volumes in pigskin library bindings without titles. Both with water damage and staining, Vol I being the worst affected. Originally issued in parts this set is not properly paginated, with some page numbers added in in pencil. On collation it has 32 colour plates and 58 black and white plates and 12 coloured maps, but it is not clear that it is complete. It is a scarce work which, in very good condition, sells for circa £800. This set is priced for condition. The contents of Vol I hace some damp staining - affecting text and 7 colour, and 21 black and white plates. Vol II is better - plates do not have tissue guards but are clean and in good condition. 2 plates are misnumbered, the plate which should be at p 112 is at 114, and the plate for 104 is at 90. Poor. Full leather. (1176) £185.00

H F Witherby. The Handbook of British Birds Vol II; Warblers to Owls. London : H F & G Witherby Ltd, 1938. 1st Edition. Bookplate to front pastedown. Very good in fair dust-jacket. Hardcover. (405) £10.00

H F Witherby. The Handbook of British Birds Vol II; Warblers to Owls. London : H F & G Witherby Ltd, 1938. 1st Edition. Clean internally. Binding with fading to the top and bottom of the spine. Wrapper with edge loss and tearing. Very good in poor dust-jacket. Hardcover. (2105) £5.00

H F Witherby. The Handbook of British Birds Vol II; Warblers to Owls. London : H F & G Witherby Ltd, 1948. 5th impression. Contents bright and clean. Binding slightly faded and shaken. Wrapper with a lot of tearing. Very good in fair dust-jacket. Hardcover. (4120) £7.00

H F Witherby. The Handbook of British Birds Vol IV; Cormorant to Crane. London : H F & G Witherby Ltd, 1940. 1st Edition. Contents in very good clean condition. Some damage to rear endpaper. Near fine in fair dust-jacket. Hardcover. (404) £12.00

H F Witherby. The Handbook of British Birds Vol IV; Cormorant to Crane. London : H F & G Witherby Ltd, 1940. 1st Edition. Wrapper with tearing, repair and loss. Binding with some fading to spine. Contents clean with light spotting at edges. Near fine in poor dust-jacket. Hardcover. (2106) £5.00

H F Witherby. The Handbook of British Birds Vol V; Terns to Game Birds. London : H F & G Witherby Ltd, 1941. 1st Edition. Very good + in good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (407) £12.00

H F Witherby. The Handbook of British Birds Vol V; Terns to Game Birds. London : H F & G Witherby Ltd, 1941. 1st Edition. Very good + in good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (2104) £5.00 H F Witherby et al. The Handbook of British Birds Vol I; Crows to Flycatchers. London : H F & G Witherby Ltd, 1938. 1st Edition. Bookplate to front pastedown endpaper; ephemera on Birds in the Open and how to distinguish them. Very good in fair dust-jacket. Hardcover. (406) £12.00

H F Witherby et al. The Handbook of British Birds Vol III; Hawks to Ducks. London : H F & G Witherby Ltd, 1939. 1st Edition. Bookplate to front pastedown. Ephemera on Owls. Very good + in good dust-jacket. Hardcover. (408) £12.00

H F Witherby, F C R Jourdain et al. The Handbook of British Birds Volume 3: Hawks to Ducks. London: H F and G Witherby Ltd, 1939. 1st Edition. Nice clean copy. Some spotting to page edges and foredge. Very good in fair dust-jacket. Hardcover. (2103) £5.00

H G Adams. Nests and Eggs of Familiar Birds Described and Illustrated with an account of the haunts and habits of the feathered architects, and their times and mode of building. London: Groombridge and Sons, circa 1885. reprint. Ink signature to front endpaper dated 1887. Originally published in 2 series with 8 plates each, this is the combined volume with colour frontispiece and 15 further colour plates. In decorative cloth binding with bevelled edges to boards. Spine slightly faded and wear to spine ends and corners. All page edges gilted. Contents complete and clean. Plates with occasional light marks. Repaired page tear to bottom of p119 and slight rumple and darkening to side edge of plate at p 174 Very good. Decorative cloth. (2830) £30.00

Hargreaves. The Bird Set. London: Macmillan , 1968. 1st Edition. Great set of bird cartoons. Some marking internally; small section taken out of preliminary leaf; covers with some marking. Fair. Hardcover. (4377) £4.00

Hargreaves. Birds of a Feather. London: Macmillan , 1969. 1st Edition. Great set of bird cartoons. Some marking to covers but clean internally. Good. Hardcover. (4378) £8.00

Harold Stiver. Finding Birds in Orkney. Harold Stiver , 2014. 1st Edition. ISBN: 9781927835173. Nice clean copy which appears unread. Fine. Softcover. (4116) £8.00

Heimo Mikkola. Owls of Europe. Calton : T & A D Poyser Ltd, 1983. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 034 8. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1316) £15.00

Heinrich Gatke, Rudolph Rosenstock (translator). Heligoland as an Ornithological Observatory. The Result of Fifty Years' Experience. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1895. 1st English edition. In the original decorative cloth binding with wear to spine ends and corners. Shaken. Contents 599 pp with publisher's adverts to rear. Light toning to page edges and some annotation and ink lining to paragraphs, mostly in the first sections. Fair. Decorative cloth. (2802) £35.00

Herman Heintzel, Richard Fitter and John Parslow. Collins Pocket Guide - Birds of Britain and Europe with North Africa & the Middle East. London: HarperCollins, 1995. New edition. ISBN: 0002198940. Rear cover corner turned. Some marking to bottom page edge. Good +. Softcover. (2884) £3.00

Hermann Heinzel, R S R Fitter, John Parslow. The Birds of Britain and Europe. Collins , 1987. ISBN: 0 00 219210 1. Good +. Paperback. (175) £2.00

Hermann Heinzel, R S R Fitter, John Parslow. The Birds of Britain and Europe. London: Collins , 1977. Reprint. ISBN: 0 00 219210 1. Good +. Softcover. (4042) £2.00

I R McCann. Grampian Birds. An Illustrated Checklist. Australia: Halls Gap Tourist Information Centre, 1987. Revised Edition. Note this is an Australian publication. Very good +. Softcover. (2790) £1.00

Ian Newton. Population Ecology of Raptors. Berkhamsted: T & A D Poyser, 1979. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 023 2. price clipped jacket. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (102) £20.00 Ian Newton. Population Ecology of Raptors. Berkhamsted: T & A D Poyser Ltd, 1979. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 023 2. Fine in good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1324) £18.00

J A Walpole-Bond. Bird Life in Wild Wales. London: T Fisher Unwin , 1903. 1st Edition. Clean sound copy. Very good. Decorative cloth. (1405) £15.00

J Lord and A J M Blake. The Birds of Staffordshire. Birmingham: The West Midland Bird Club , 1962. 1st Edition. Very good +. Hardcover. (1401) £5.00

J Lord and D J Munns (editors). Atlas of Breeding Birds of the West Midlands. London: Collins , 1970. 1st Edition. Fine in very good dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1344) £6.00

J N Dymond. The Birds of Fair Isle. Private , 1991. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 9518414 0 8. Fine. Softcover. (1395) £15.00

J N Dymond, P A Fraser, S J M Gauntlet. Rare Birds in Britain and Ireland. Calton : T & A D Poyser Ltd, 1989. 1st Edition. ISBN: 085661 053 4. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1315) £5.00

J T R and E M Sharrock. Rare Birds in Britain and Ireland. Berkhamsted: T & A D Poyser, 1976. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661014 3. Nice clean copy. Remains of pasted ownership label to front endpaper. Wrapper slightly slack with small edge tears. Near fine in good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (256) £8.00

J T R Sharrock. The Atlas of Breeding Birds in Britain and Ireland. Tring : British Trust for Ornithology , 1976. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 903793 01 6. Very good in good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (243) £8.00

J T R Sharrock. Scarce Migrant Birds in Britain and Ireland. Berkhamsted: T & A D Poyser Ltd, 1974. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 008 9. Very good + in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1314) £10.00

J T R Sharrock (editor). The Natural History of Cape Clear Island. Berkhamsted: T & AD Poyser Ltd , 1973. 1st Edition. ISBN: 085661002x. Cape Clear islands is at the southern tip of Ireland. Ex library with protected wrapper. Library annoyances to rear of title page and on the half title. Some ink notes to front free endpaper. Book with light wear to corners. Contents clean. Wrap with some damage at base of spine. A scarce title. Good in good dust-jacket. Hardcover. (3927) £7.00

J T R Sharrock & E M Sharrock. Rare Birds in Britain and Ireland. Birkhamsted : T & A D Poyser Ltd, 1976. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 014 3. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1300) £6.00

J T R Sharrock and P J Grant. Birds new to Britain and Ireland. Calton : T & A D Poyser Ltd, 1982. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 033 x. Fine in very good dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1317) £10.00

James Ferguson-Lees and David A Christie. Raptors of the World; Helm Identification Guide. London: Christopher Helm , 2001. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 7136 8026 1. Some rubbing to bottom edge of boards. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1604) £30.00

Janet Kear. Man and Wildfowl. London : T & A D Poyser, 1990. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 055 0. With author's signature to title page. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (89) £15.00 Janet Kear. Man and Wildfowl. London: T & A D Poyser, 1990. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 055 0. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1329) £12.00

Jim Flegg. Jim Flegg's Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe. London : New Holland (publishers) Ltd, 1990. 1st Edition. ISBN: 1 85368 080 x. Good. Paperback. (155) £2.50

Jim Flegg and David Hosking. Photographic Field Guides - Birds of Britain and Europe. London : New Holland Publishers (UK) Ltd, 1990. 1st Edition. ISBN: 978 1 84517 186 5. Near fine. Paperback. (156) £3.00

Johan G van Rhijn. The Ruff. London : T & A D Poyser, 1991. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 062 3. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (93) £35.00

John C Day & Mike S Hodgson, with Nick Rossiter. The Atlas of Breeding Birds in Northumbria. Newcastle: Northumberland & Tyneside Bird Club , 1995. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 9522039 5 2. A near fine copy in dustwrapper. A comprehensive study of Northumberland bird life with extensive mapping data on each species. 308 pp. Name of previous owner stamped on half title page. Near fine in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (6) £50.00

John Holloway. To Fair Isle and Back (Where to watch Birds on Stronsay). Stronsay Bird Reserve: J F Hollway , 1995. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 9526298 0 1. Inscription to front endpaper. Near fine. Softcover. (1651) £5.00

John Holloway. The Birds of Stronsay. Stronsay : Holland Bay , 1991. 1st Edition. Very scarce booklet with illustrations in colour and black and white by John Holloway. Very good +. Softcover. (495) £4.00

John Holloway. Fair Isle's 'Garden Birds'. Lerwick : The Shetland Times Ltd , 1984. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 900662 39 5. Nice clean copy - small inscription to front endpaper. Very good + in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1854) £6.00

John Holloway. Fair Isle's 'Garden Birds'. Lerwick : The Shetland Times Ltd , 1984. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 900662 39 5. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (3997) £6.00

John Holloway. Stronsay's 'garden' birds. Stronsay : Stronsay Bird Reserve. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 95 26298 5 2. ownership signature to front endpaper. Near fine. Hardcover. (475) £20.00

John Holloway. Stronsay's 'garden' birds. Stronsay : Stronsay Bird Reserve. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 95 26298 5 2. Some wear to rear spine joint. Near fine. Hardcover. (2954) £20.00

John Parslow. Breeding Birds of Britain and Ireland; A historical survey. Berkhamsted: T & A D Poyser, 1973. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 001 1. Fine in very good dust-jacket. Hardcover. (95) £5.00

John Parslow. Breeding Birds of Britain and Ireland; a historical survey. Birkhamsted : T & A D Poyser Ltd, 1973. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 001 1. wrap price clipped. Very good + in good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1299) £5.00

Jonathan Elphick et al. RSPB Pocket Birds of Britain and Europe. London: Dorling Kindersley, 2009. Reprint. ISBN: 9781405337427. Near fine. Softcover. (3640) £2.50

Jonathan Guest and Malcolm Hutcheson. Where to Watch Birds in Cumbria, Lancashire & Cheshire. London: Christopher Helm, 1992. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 7136 3519 3. Very good +. Softcover. (1357) £8.00

Keith Brockie. Mountain Reflections. Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing , 1993. 1st Edition. ISBN: 1 85158 557 5. Very good in very good dust-jacket. Hardcover. (402) £8.00 Keith Dye, Mick Fiszer & Peter Allard. Birds New to Norfolk. The accounts of their discovery and identification. Sheringham: Wren Publishing , 2009. 1st Edition. ISBN: 978 0 9542545 3 7. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1350) £30.00

Ken Hall and John Govett. Where to Watch Birds in Somerset, Avon, Gloucestershire & Wiltshire. London: Christopher Helm, 1988. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 7470 1207 5. Fair. Softcover. (1354) £4.00

Kenneth Williamson. Fair Isle and its birds. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1965. 1st Edition. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Wrap with archival tape repair to front cover. Contents very clean. Very good + in fair dust-jacket. Hardcover. (4025) £20.00

Kevin Baker. Warblers of Europe, Asia and North Africa; Helm Identification Guide. London: Christopher Helm, 1997. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 7136 3971 7. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1615) £20.00

Killian Mullarney, Lars Svensson et al. Collins Bird Guide. London: HarperCollins Publishers, 1999. 3rd printing. ISBN: 0002197286. Near fine in very good dust-jacket. Hardcover. (3633) £8.00

Konrad Lorenz. The Year of the Greylag Goose. London: Eyre Methuen Ltd, 1979. 1st English. ISBN: 0 41345820 2. Very good in fair dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1620) £5.00

L A Batten, C J Bibby, P Clement et al. Red Data Birds in Britain; Action for rare, threatened and important species. London: T & A D Poyser, 1990. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 056 9. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1331) £5.00

L A Batten, C J Bibby, P Clement, G D Elliott and R F Porter - editors. Red Data Birds in Britain; Action for rare, threatened and important species. London : T & A D Poyser , 1990. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 056 9. Nice copy - remains of old ownership label to front endpaper. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (255) £7.00

L S V Venables and U M Venables. Birds and Mammals of Shetland. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1955. 1st Edition. Cited as the first general study of the zoology of Shetland by naturalists living there - the result of 8 years of observation. Book clean. Some wear to corners and spine ends. Jacket with some damage at top and bottom of spine. Price clipped. Very good in good dust- jacket. (4137) £14.00

L S V Venables and U M Venables. Birds and Mammals of Shetland. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1955. 1st Edition. Cited as the first general study of the zoology of Shetland by naturalists living there - the result of 8 years of observation. Book clean and sound with little wear. Some wear to corners and spine ends. Jacket with reinforcement to edges and marking to back cover. Price clipped. Near fine in fair dust-jacket. (4138) £14.00

Lars Jonsson. Birds of Europe, with North Africa and the Middle East. London: Christopher Helm, 1992. 1st English edition. ISBN: 0 7136 8096 2. Very good +. Hardcover. (1614) £12.00

Lars Jonsson. Winter Birds. London: Bloomsbury Publishing , 2017. 1st UK. ISBN: 978 1 4729 4281 4. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1351) £20.00 Lee G R Evans. The Ultimate Site Guide to Scarcer British Birds. Oxford: LGRE Productions Inc, 2009. 3rd edition. ISBN: 9781898110 49 9 9. An extremely scarce publication. Near fine. Softcover. (1343) £50.00

Leo Batten, Jim Flegg, Jeremy Sorensen, Mike J Wareing, Donald Watson and Malcolm Wright. Birdwatchers' Year. Berkhamsted: T & A D Poyser Ltd , 1973. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 003 8. Near fine copy. Remains of ownership label to front endpaper. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (258) £10.00

M A Ogilvie. Wild Geese. Berkhamsted: T & A D Poyser, 1978. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 017 8. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (86) £12.00

M A Ogilvie. Ducks of Britain and Europe. Berkhamsted: T & A D Poyser Ltd, 1975. 1st Edition. Some marking to endpapers. Very good in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1323) £9.00

M A Ogilvie. Wild Geese. Berkhamsted: T & A D Poyser Ltd, 1978. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 017 8. Fine in very good dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1318) £9.00

M K C Scott & J. A. Henderson. Birds shown to the children. London and Edinburgh: T.C & E.C.Jack , ? 1920's. Part of the Shown to the Children series edited by Louey Chisholm. This volume is in original brown cloth binding with a colour picture of a bird on the front board. Binding slightly soiled. Contents clean and bright bar a messy pencil signature on the fep. 2.50 - 6.00 Good +. Hardcover. (1271) £4.00

M K C Scott & J. A. Henderson. Birds shown to the children. London and Edinburgh: T.C & E.C.Jack , ? 1920's. Part of the Shown to the Children series edited by Louey Chisholm. This volume is in original brown cloth binding with a colour picture of a bird on the front board. Neat signature to front endpaper. Nice clean copy with original page marker. Good +. Hardcover. (2794) £4.00

M R Wright. An Atlas of Cotswold Breeding Birds. Shipton on Stour : North Cotswold Ornithological Society. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 9466 43 38 5. Fine. Softcover. (1393) £8.00

Malcolm Ogilvie. Islay Birds. A Checklist. Port Charlotte: Islay Natural History Society , 1988. 1st Edition. Fair. Softcover. (2785) £3.00

Malcolm Ogilvie. The Wildfowl of Britain and Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 19 217723 0. Illustrated by N W Cusa and Peter Scott. Very good + in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1588) £8.00

Mark Avery and Roderick Leslie. Birds and Forestry. London : T & A D Poyser, 1990. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 058 5. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (101) £35.00

Martin Peers. Birds of Radnorshire and Mid Powys. Powys: Martin Peers, 1985. 1st Edition. Illustrated by John Govett. Extremely scarce. Good. Softcover. (1712) £10.00

Michael Betts. Birds of Skokholm. Cardiff : Dyfed Wildlife Trust Bioline , 1992. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 9520432 0 3. Fine. Softcover. (1394) £15.00

Mike Madders and Julia Welstead. Where to watch birds in Scotland. London: Christopher Helm, 2000. 3rd edition. ISBN: 0 7136 4487 7. Near fine. Softcover. (1613) £6.00

Mike Madders and Philip Snow. Birds of Mull. Mull : Saker Press , 1990. Revised Edition. Good +. Softcover. (2787) £5.00 Mr and Mrs S C Hall. The Book of the Thames, from its Rise to its Fall. London : J S Virtue and Company , 1890's. New edition. Rebound in full leather binding with false raised bands and title label to spine and bevelled edges to boards. Newer endpapers. Contents with rubricated title page and numerous illustrations. A survey of the history, scenery and nature of the Thames at a time when birds, fish and mammals were much more plentiful. The binding is in very good condition. Contents with a lot of browning and some marking, particularly in the top margins. Fair. Full leather. (3024) £10.00

Mrs R Lee. Anecdotes of the Habits and Instincts of Birds, Reptiles and Fishes. London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh, ca 1886. In the original decorative cloth binding with black and white illustrations by Harrison Weir. Binding with some staining to boards and wear to edges, spine ends and corners. Spine faded. Remains of prize plate dated 1902 to front endpaper. Contents generally clean. Fair. Decorative cloth. (3012) £4.00

Myrfyn Owen, Peter Scott (Foreward). Wildfowl of Europe. London: Macmillan London Ltd, 1977. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 333 18701 6. Colour plates by Hilary Burn. Very good in good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1589) £6.00

Nick Forsman. Flight Identification of Raptors of Europe,, North Africa and the Middle East; Helm Identification Guides. London: Christopher Helm, 2016. 1st Edition. ISBN: 978 1 472 1361 6. Near fine. Glossy pictorial cover. (1294) £45.00

Norman Elkins. Weather and Bird Behaviour. Calton : T & AD Poyser, 1988. 2nd edition. ISBN: 85661 051 8. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (84) £8.00

Norman Elkins. Weather and Bird Behavious. Calton : T & A D Poyser, 1988. 2nd edition. ISBN: 85661 051 8. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (257) £8.00

Norman Elkins. Weather and Bird Behaviour. Calton : T & A D Poyser Ltd, 1983. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 035 6. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1327) £7.00

Oliver Goldsmith. A History of the Earth and Animated Nature Volume II. Edinburgh: A Fullarton and Co , circa 1875. reprint. Vol II of a 2 volume set. Encyclopaedic works on the natural world were extremely common in the 1800's, as information about new species and new worlds became available, together with works on order and classification. Goldsmith - known as a poet and author, took on a variety of writing commissions, of which this is one. The Fullarton edition is known for the quantity and quality of its hand-coloured plates. Vol II covers the birds (with a focus on the more colourful ones - parrots and humming birds, fishes (including whales), reptiles, shells and insects. In the original half morocco leather binding which is rubbed and worn. Contents in very good clean condition with hand coloured vignette title and 38 hand coloured plates. Good +. Half morocco. (1782) £40.00

Oliver Wendell Holmes. Dorothy Q Together with A Ballad of the Boston Tea Party & Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle. London: Gay and Bird, 1892. 2 inscriptions to initial blank dated 1892 and 1927. Decorative cloth binding in very good clean condition. Contents with numerous illustrations by Howard Pyle. Very good. Decorative cloth. (657) £30.00

P A D Hollom. The Popular Handbook of British Birds. London: H F and G Witherby Ltd , 1978. reprint. Very good in good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (2112) £5.00

P A D Hollom. The Popular Handbook of Rarer British Birds. London: H F and G Witherby Ltd , 1980. 2nd edition revised. ISBN: 0854931295. Very good + in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (2111) £5.00

P A D Hollom, R F Porter et al. Birds of the Middle East and North Africa. Calton : T & A D Poyser, 1988. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 047 x. Near fine. Hardcover. (1341) £12.00 P A D Hollom, R F Porter, S Christensen and Ian Willis. Birds of the Middle East and North Africa; A Companion Guide. Calton : T & A D Poyser, 1988. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 047 x. Very good +. Glossy pictorial cover. (104) £10.00

P Ian Mitchell, Stephen E Newton, Norman Ratcliffe & Timothy E Dunn. Seabird Populations of Britain and Ireland; Results of the Seabird 2000 Census (1998-2002). London : Christopher Helm for T & A D Poyser, 2004. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 7136 6901 2. Very good - some bumping to the top corners of the boards. Very good + in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (68) £15.00

P J Grant. Gulls a guide to identification. Calton : T & A D Poyser Ltd, 1982. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 030 5. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1328) £12.00

P J Grant. Gulls. A guide to identification. Berkhamsted : T & A D Poyser Ltd, 1986. 2nd edition. ISBN: 0 85661 044 5. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1332) £12.00

Per Alstrom and Krister Mild. Pipits & Wagtails of Europe, Asia and North America. Identification and Systematics; A Helm Identification Guide. London2003 : Christopher Helm, 2003. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 7136 5834 7. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1339) £60.00

Peter and Margaret Clarke. Where to Watch Birds in East Anglia. Including Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire. London: Christopher Helm, 1987. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 7470 0400 5. Very good +. Softcover. (1353) £5.00

Peter Clement and Ren Hathaway. Thrushes; Helm Identification Guide. London: Christopher Helm , 2000. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 7136 3940 7. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1607) £30.00

Peter Cunningham. The Birds of the Outer Hebrides. A Guide to their status and distribution. Edinburgh: James Thin, Mercat Press , 1990. Updated edition. ISBN: 0 906664 00 0. Illustrated by Roger Lee. Scarce. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Very good. Softcover. (1154) £8.00

Peter G H Evans. The Natural History of Whales and Dolphins. London : Christopher Helm, 1987. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 7470 0800 0. Near fine copy. Remains of old ownership label to front endpaper. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (251) £7.00

Peter Harrison. Seabirds; An identification guide. Beckenham: Croom Helm Ltd, 1983. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 7099 1207 2. Near fine copy. Light wear to binding - slightly pulling to spine and some corner wear. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (250) £15.00

Peter Harrison. Seabirds of the World. A Photographic Guide. London: Christopher Helm , 1987. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 7470 1401 9. Fine. Softcover. (1364) £3.00

Peter Hayman and Philip Burton. The Birdlife of Britain; A dramatic new way of identifying and understanding the birds of Britain and Europe. London: Emblem in assocation with RSPB, 1982. reprint. ISBN: 0 85533 418 5. Clean contents - light browning to page edges. Protective lamination on covers. Good +. Softcover. (1044) £3.00

Peter Hayman, John Marchant, Tony Prater. Shorebirds. An identification guide to the waders of the world. Beckenham : Croom Helm Limited, 1986. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 7099 2034 2. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1304) £10.00 Peter Holden, J T R Sharrock. The RSPB Book of British Birds. London: Macmillan, 1984. Reprint. ISBN: 0333367782. Very good. Softcover. (4043) £2.00

Peter Lack. The Atlas of Wintering Birds in Britain and Ireland. Calton : T & A D Poyser , 1986. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 043 7. Bright clean binding with some bumping to corners. Patch on endpaper where old label removed. Very good + in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (242) £8.00

Phil Chantler and Gerald Driessens. Swifts. A Guide to the Swifts and Treeswifts of the World. Sussex : Pica Press , 2000. 2nd edition. ISBN: 1 873403 83 6. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1338) £20.00

Philip Rickman. Sketches and Notes from a Bird Painter's Journal. London: Eyre and Spottiswode , 1949. 1st Edition. Nice clean copy internally. Binding with some browning to spine and scuffing to side edges. Good +. Hardcover. (3125) £5.00

R Bowdler Sharpe. A Hand-Book to the Birds of Great Britain Vol I; Lloyds' Natural History. London: Edward Lloyd Limited, 1896. 1st Edition. Issued in parts, eventually making up a set of 16 volumes. British Birds was issued in 4 volumes of which this is Vol I. In the more expensive variant of the publisher's cloth binding which has light wear including pulling to spine ends and wear to corners. Complete with 37 colour printed plates. Contents bright and clean with light toning to page edges. The front gather is coming loose; there is a torn tissue guard at p 85, and plate 28 has a crease. Some splitting at the top of the rear endpaper joint. Good +. Decorative cloth. (1179) £25.00

R Bowdler Sharpe. A Hand-Book to the Birds of Great Britain Vol II; Lloyds' Natural History. London: Edward Lloyd Limited, 1896. 1st Edition. Issued in parts, eventually making up a set of 16 volumes. British Birds was issued in 4 volumes of which this is Vol II. In the more expensive variant of the publisher's cloth binding which has light wear including pulling to spine ends and wear to corners. Contents in very good clean condition with light toning to page edges. With 26 of 27 colour printed plates - lacking plate 58. Good +. Decorative cloth. (1182) £20.00

R Bowdler Sharpe. A Hand-Book to the Birds of Great Britain Vol III; Lloyds' Natural History. London: Edward Lloyd Limited, 1896. 1st Edition. Issued in parts, eventually making up a set of 16 volumes. British Birds was issued in 4 volumes of which this is Vol III. In the more expensive variant of the publisher's cloth binding which has light wear including pulling to spine ends and wear to corners. Spine is slightly cocked. Contents complete with 35 colour printed plates. In very good clean condition with light toning to page edges. Very good. Decorative cloth. (1181) £25.00

R Bowdler Sharpe. A Hand-Book to the Birds of Great Britain Vol IV; Lloyds' Natural History. London: Edward Lloyd Limited, 1897. 1st Edition. Issued in parts, eventually making up a set of 16 volumes. British Birds was issued in 4 volumes of which this is Vol IV. In the more expensive variant of the publisher's cloth binding which has light wear including pulling to spine ends and wear to corners. Spine slightly cocked with a small cloth split at the front joint. Contents complete with 35 colour printed plates and in very good clean condition with light toning to page edges. Slightly shaken with stitching showing at p 145. Good +. Decorative cloth. (1180) £25.00

R Bowdler Sharpe. A Hand-Book to the Birds of Great Britain Vol III; Lloyd's Natural History. London: Edward Lloyd Limited, 1896. 1st Edition. Issued in parts, eventually making up a set of 16 volumes. British Birds was issued in 4 volumes, of which this is Vol III. It is in one of the publisher's quarter leather bindings, which is very worn, particularly around the spine and there is some marking on the boards. Page edges and endpapers are marbled. Contents are complete with 35 colour-printed plates. Top page edges have occasional light spotting or marking, but the contents are in otherwise very good condition. Fair. Quarter leather. (1166) £25.00

R Bowdler Sharpe. A Hand-Book to the Birds of Great Britain Vol IV; Lloyd's Natural History. London: Edward Lloyd Limited, 1897. 1st Edition. Issued in parts, eventually making up a set of 16 volumes. There were 4 volumes devoted to British Birds, of which this is the last. In one of the publisher's quarter leather bindings which is in a worn state, particularly around the spine. Page edges and endpapers marbled. Contents are very clean, with some marking to the text at pp 179/181. With 34 of 35 colour-printed plates bound at the rear. Fair. Quarter Leather. (1163) £21.00

R F Porter, Ian Willis et al. Flight Identification of European Raptors. Berkhamsted: T & A D Poyser Ltd, 1976. 2nd edition. ISBN: 0 85661 012 7. Very good + in very good dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1311) £10.00

R F Porter, Ian Willis et al. Flight Identification of European Raptors. Berkhamsted: T & A D Poyser Ltd, 1981. 3rd edition. ISBN: 0 85661 012 7. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1312) £12.00

R F Porter, Ian Willis, Steen Christensen, Bent Pors Nielsen. Flight Identification of European Raptors. Calton : T & A D Poyser, 1986. 3rd edition, 1st reprint. ISBN: 0 85661 027 5. Clean copy. Remains of old ownership label to front endpaper. Very good + in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (254) £7.00

R J Fuller. Bird Habitats in Britain. Calton : T & A D Poyser Ltd, 1982. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 031 3. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1325) £9.00

R K Murton. Man & Birds; New Naturalist Series. London : Collins , 1973. First reprint. ISBN: 0 00 213132 3. Binding very clean - spine lightly cocked. Some old scribblings partly rubbed out to front endpaper. Jacket price-clipped but nice and clean. Very good in good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (245) £20.00

R S R Fitter & R A Richardson. Collins Pocket Guide to British Birds. The Complete Identification Book. London: Collins, 1971. Revised Edition. ISBN: 0 00 212019 4. Very good + in very good dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1825) £4.00

Rev F O Morris. A Natural History of British Moths Vols I-IV. London: George Bell and Sons , 1872. A good copy in the original decorative cloth bindings with 132 hand coloured plates. The Reverend Morris was a well known writer on natural history, publishing a 6 volume work on British Birds (still sought-after today), a 3 volume work on the nests and eggs of British Birds and a single volume work on British Butterflies. All were much reprinted. This is an early reprint of Moths and is complete and clean. The bindings have some wear, generally to spine ends and corners, and the occasional light mark. They are sound - vols II and III slightly shaken with stitching visible at points. All have signatures to the front endpapers. Good +. Decorative cloth. (3477) £250.00

Richard E Elliott. Birds of Islay. London: Christopher Helm , 1989. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 7470 0803 5. Scarce work. Binding with some staining and small crease to front cover. Contents nice and clean. Good +. Softcover. (1826) £10.00

Richard Mark Martin. Cage and Aviary Birds. London: Collins , 1986. Reprint. ISBN: 0002192381. Very good. Softcover. (4045) £3.50

Richard Perry. Shetland Sanctuary. Birds on the Isle of Noss. London: Faber and Faber Limited , 1948. 1st Edition. Clean copy with 2 folding maps. Binding has a faded spine and some bumping to corners. Contents are clean. Map at the rear is a bit creased and has a small tear. Fair. Hardcover. (4233) £3.00

Richard Perry. Watching Sea Birds. London: Croom Helm, 1975. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0856641103. Clean copy. A couple of small marks to front endpaper. Wrap with some scuffing and a faded spine. Results of some detailed observation on Lundy and Noss. Near fine in very good dust-jacket. Hardcover. (4201) £6.00 Richard Vaughan. In Search of Arctic Birds. London : T & A D Poyser, 1992. 1st Edition. ISBN: o 85661 071 2. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (91) £35.00

Robert A Cheke, Clive F Mann and Richard Allen. Sunbirds. A Guide to the Sunbirds, Flowerpeckers, Spiderhunters and Sugarbirds of the World; Helm Identification Guide. London: Christopher Helm , 2001. 1st Edition. ISBN: 1 873403 80 1. Near fine in near fine dust- jacket. Hardcover. (1608) £20.00

Robert Mudie. The Feathered Tribes of the British Islands Vols I & II. London : Henry G Bohn , 1841. 3rd edition. In original decorative cloth bindings with coloured vignette title pages and 18 coloured plates. First appearance in a book of a Baxter colour print. Bindings bright and clean with some pulling to spines and corner wear. Both volumes are shaken with weak stitching and Vol I has a split front endpaper at the hinge. Contents clean with bright plates. There is the odd spot or mark. Some pages are unopened and some are badly opened eg Vol II pp 73-5 where there is damage to top margins which does not affect the text. Fair. Decorative cloth. (425) £80.00

Robert S Ridgely and Paul J Greenfield. The Birds of Ecuador Vol II; A Field Guide. London: Christopher Helm, 2001. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 7136 6117 8. Scarce Helm Field Guide. Very good. Softcover. (1148) £25.00

Robert W Furness. The Skuas. Calton : T & A D Poyser, 1987. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 046 1. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (90) £30.00

Roger Lovegrove and Philip Snow. River Birds. Bird Life from Mountain Stream to Estuary. London: Columbus Books, 1984. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 86287 093 3. Very good + in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1621) £5.00

Roger Lovegrove, Graham Williams, Iolo Williams. Birds in Wales. London: T & A D Poyser, 1994. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 069 0. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1611) £20.00

Roger Peterson, Guy Mountfort and P A D Hollom. A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe. London: Collins, 1976. 3rd edition. ISBN: 0002191776. Light pulling to spine ends. Tears and loss to jacket. Very good + in fair dust-jacket. Hardcover. (2780) £4.00

Ronald Lockley. Birds & Islands; Travels in Wild Places. London : H F & G Witherby Ltd, 1991. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85493 196 1. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (571) £5.00

Ronald Lockley. Birds & Islands; Travels in Wild Places. London : H F & G Witherby Ltd, 1991. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85493 196 1. Nice clean copy in clipped wrapper. Near fine in good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (3924) £4.00

Ronald M Lockley. The Flight of the Storm Petrel. Newton Abbot : David & Charles, 1983. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 7153 8219 5. Illustrations by Noel W Cusa. Nice clean copy with slight fading to the top of the boards. Wrapper complete with a little browning to edges. Near fine in near fine dust- jacket. Hardcover. (1761) £6.00

Roy Brown, John Ferguson, Michael Lawrence and David Lees. Tracks & Signs of the Birds of Britain and Europe. An Identification Guide. London: Christopher Helm, 1987. ISBN: 0 7470 0201 0. Bumped corners to boards. Very good + in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1570) £12.00

Roy Dennis. The Birds of Badenoch and Strathspey. Grantown on Spey: Colin Baxter Photography, 1995. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 948661 62 3. Inscription to half title page - possibly by author. Good +. Softcover. (1892) £3.00 Russell Slack, Ian Wallace. Rare Birds, Where and When. An Analysis of Status & Distribution in Britain and Ireland; Volume I: sandgrouse to New World orioles. York : Russell Slack , 2009. 1st Edition. ISBN: 978 0 9562823 0 9. Vol I was the only volume published. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1349) £45.00

S J M Gantlett. The Birds of the Isles of Scilly. Holt: Privately printed , 1991. 2nd revised edition. Near fine. Softcover. (1396) £10.00

S Vere Benson. The Observer's Book of Birds. London: Frederick Warne & Co Ltd , 1957. 29th edition. Good + in good dust-jacket. Hardcover. (3809) £3.00

S Vere Benson. The Observer's Book of British Birds. London : Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. 1st edition, early printing. A very early printing of this classic work on bird identification in Britain. Binding worn but contents sound and clean. Good +. Hardcover. (428) £6.00

Simon Harrap and David Quinn. Tits, Nuthatches and Treecreepers; Helm Identification Guide. London: Christopher Helm , 1996. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 7136 3964 4. Fine in good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1605) £25.00

Simon Harrap and Nigel Redman. Where to watch birds in Britain. London: Christopher Helm, 2010. 2nd edition. ISBN: 978 1 4081 1059 1. Fine. Softcover. (1342) £20.00

Sir A Landsborough Thomson (editor). A New Dictionary of Birds. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1964. 1st Edition. The name Tony Soper stamped to front endpaper. Good +. Hardcover. (2110) £4.00

Sir William Jardine. The Birds of Great Britain and Ireland Vol I - Birds of Prey. London : W H Allen and Co , 1870's/80's. 5th edition. A later reprint of Vol I of the 4 volume series on Birds of Great Britain which was part of the Naturalist's Library published by Lizars in the 1830's/40's. By this stage the hand colouring was much less accurate and detailed but the text and plates are the same as the originals and were of very high quality. In the original decorative cloth which is worn and with some cloth splitting on the spine joints. Contents with frontispiece portrait of Sibbald, black and white vignette title page and 34 hand coloured plates. Contents clean but shaken. Fair. Decorative cloth. (1284) £35.00

Sir William Jardine. The Birds of Great Britain and Ireland Vol II - Incessores. London: W H Allen and Co , 1870's/80's. 5th edition. A later reprint of Vol II of the 4 volume series on Birds of Great Britain which was part of the Naturalist's Library published by Lizars in the 1830's/40's. By this stage the hand colouring was much less accurate and detailed but the text and plates are the same as the originals and were of very high quality. In the original decorative cloth which is worn and shaken. Contents with frontispiece portrait of Smellie, hand coloured vignette title page and 30 hand coloured plates. Contents clean. Fair. Decorative cloth. (1285) £35.00

Sir William Jardine. The Birds of Great Britain and Ireland Vol III - Rasores. London: W H Allen and Co , 1870's/80's. 5th edition. A later reprint of Vol III of the 4 volume series on Birds of Great Britain which was part of the Naturalist's Library published by Lizars in the 1830's/40's. By this stage the hand colouring was much less accurate and detailed but the text and plates are the same as the originals and were of very high quality. In the original decorative cloth which is worn and shaken with water damage and some distortion to the boards. Contents with frontispiece portrait of Walker, hand coloured vignette title page and 34 hand coloured plates. Contents clean. Fair. Decorative cloth. (1286) £32.00

Sir William Jardine. The Birds of Great Britain and Ireland Vol IV - Natatores. London : W H Allen and Co , 1870's/80's. 5th edition. A later reprint of Vol IV of the 4 volume series on Birds of Great Britain which was part of the Naturalist's Library published by Lizars in the 1830's/40's. By this stage the hand colouring was much less accurate and detailed but the text and plates are the same as the originals and were of very high quality. In the original decorative cloth which is worn and with a cocked spine. Contents with 31 plates are a little loose with one detached section. Fair. Decorative cloth. (1283) £35.00

Sir William Jardine. The Birds of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol I: Birds of Prey; The Naturalist's Library Ornithology. London : W H Allen and Co, circa 1885. 5th edition. A later reprint of the Birds of Prey volume from the Naturalist's Library. The book was originally published by W H Lizars and was one of a series published between 1834 and 1843. The engraved plates were extremely high quality and were hand coloured with great accuracy. The plates have been reused in this edition but by the 1880's the volumes were cheaper and there was much less attention to detail. There were 4 volumes covering British birds of which this is the first. It is complete in itself and includes: frontispiece portrait; vignette title; plain title; contents; memoir and text with 34 plates. The binding is somewhat worn and shaken. There is a prize bookplate of St Silas Men's Night School from 1887 to the front endpaper. Contents shaken - generally clean but with some spotting (foxing and occasional ink spots) and the odd mark. Signature to rear endpaper. Fair. Decorative cloth. (720) £35.00

Sir William Jardine. The Birds of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol II: Incessores; The Naturalist's Library.Ornithology. London: W H Allen and Co, circa 1885. 5th edition. Vol II of the Birds of Great Britain covering Incessores and complete in itself. The book was originally published by W H Lizars and was one of a series published between 1834 and 1843. The engraved plates were extremely high quality and were hand coloured with great accuracy. The plates have been reused in this edition but by the 1880's the volumes were cheaper and there was much less attention to detail. This volume has: frontispiece; hand coloured vignette title; letterpress title; contents; Memoir and text with 30 hand coloured plates. 409pp. Contents are complete and clean with the occasional mark. Plate 1 has crease to the corner. Some text pages have been poorly opened. Good. Decorative cloth. (721) £35.00

Sir William Jardine. The Birds of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol III Rasores and Grallatores; The Naturalist's Library.Ornithology. London : W H Allen and Co, circa 1885. 5th edition. The 3rd volume in the Naturalist's Library series covering British Birds, complete in itself. The book was originally published by W H Lizars and was one of a series published between 1834 and 1843. The engraved plates were extremely high quality and were hand coloured with great accuracy. The plates have been reused in this edition but by the 1880's the volumes were cheaper and there was much less attention to detail. This volume has a worn binding with some marking to boards. Contents: frontispiece; hand coloured vignette title; title; contents; memoir; text with 34 hand coloured plates. The number of plates is correct but they are bound out of order. Contents generally clean apart from the final pages, but very shaken with some loose stitching and gathers. Fair. Decorative cloth. (722) £35.00

Sir William Jardine. The Birds of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol IV Natatores; The Naturalist's Library.Ornithology. London: W H Allen and Co, circa 1885. 5th edition. The 4th volume in the Naturalist's Library series covering British Birds, complete in itself.The book was originally published by W H Lizars and was one of a series published between 1834 and 1843. This was the final volume in the series and the first edition was issued with a set of replacement title pages for all the previous volumes. The engraved plates were extremely high quality and were hand coloured with great accuracy. The plates have been reused in this edition but by the 1880's the volumes were cheaper and there was much less attention to detail. This volume has a worn binding with some marking to boards. Contents: frontispiece; vignette title; title; contents; memoir; text 313pp with 29 of 31 hand coloured plates - bound out of order. Plates and text reasonably clean but very shaken with the stitching visible at a number of points. Fair. Decorative cloth. (723) £30.00

Sir William Jardine. The Natural History of the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland Part IV Natatores; The Naturalist's Library Ornithology Vol XXVII. Edinburgh: W H Lizars, 1843. 1st Edition. First edition copy in a variant of the publisher's usual cloth binding. Contents: frontispiece; vignette title; 2 letterpress titles; advert; contents; memoir; chronological table of Naturalist's Library memoirs; text 313pp; directions to the binding (which refers to new title pages sometimes bound in with this volume as it was the last to be issued in the series); 31 hand coloured plates at the rear. The binding is sunned and lightly scuffed with some paler patches to boards. Contents in very good clean condition: some pages unopened but pp 31, 61 and 76 poorly opened; some splitting at the rear endpaper joint. Good +. Cloth. (617) £75.00

Sir William Jardine. The Naturalist's Library Vol XVI Mammalia. Lions, Tigers etc; The Natural History of the Felinae. London : Chatto & Windus , 1870's. A good later reprint of a volume from the Naturalist's Library, edited by Sir William Jardine. The Library, which consisted of a series of volumes on insects, fish, birds and mammals, was first published by Lizars from 1833-1843. The text and illustrations were of extremely high quality and it was much reprinted. The illustrations in the Chatto edition are still hand coloured but some of the attention to details and quality from the original publication has gone. This volume is in a fair binding - with pulling and fraying to the top and bottom of the spine and general wear. Contents, including black and white frontispiece, hand coloured vignette title and 36 colour plates in good + condition. 276pp. The odd slight edge tear to margins. Good. Quarter buckram with cloth boards. (172) £40.00

Stanley Cramp (Chief Editor). Handbook of the Birds of Europe the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic; Volume I: Ostrich to Ducks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 19 857358 8. Near fine copy. 722pp. Printed for the RSPB by Oxford University Press. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (754) £25.00

Stanley Cramp (Chief Editor), Duncan J Brooks, Euan Dunn et al. Handbook of the Birds of Europe the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic; Volume V: Tyrant Flycatchers to Thrushes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 19 857509 5. Near fine copy printed by the Oxford University Press for the RSPB. 1063pp. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (753) £25.00

Stanley Cramp (Chief Editor), Duncan J Brooks, Euan Dunn et al. Handbook of the Birds of Europe the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic; Volume IV: Terns to Woodpeckers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 19 857507 6. Near fine copy of the 1st edition, published by OUP for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. 936pp. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (755) £25.00

Stanley Cramp (Chief Editor), Duncan J Brooks, Euan Dunn et al. Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic; Vol V Tyrant Flycatchers to Thrushes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 19 857508 4. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (241) £30.00

Stanley Cramp (Chief Editor), Duncan J Brooks, Euan Dunn, Robert Gillmor et al. Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic; Vol IV Terns to Woodpeckers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 19 857507 6. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (233) £30.00

Stanley Cramp (Chief Editor), Euan Dunn, Robert Gillmor, Joan Hall-Craggs et al. Handbook to the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic; Vol V: Tyrant Flycatchers to Thrushes. Oxford: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds/Oxford University Press, 1988. First limited edition. ISBN: 0 19 857505 x (v2). A near fine copy of the 1st limited edition, produced for the RSPB for sale to its members. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (17) £30.00

Stanley Cramp (Chief Editor), K E L Simmons, Duncan J Brooks et al. Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic; Vol III Waders to Gulls. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 19 857506 8. Binding with some pulling to spine and light corner bumping. Jacket with some sunning to spine. Very good + in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (235) £25.00 Stanley Cramp (Chief Editor), K E L Simmons, I J Ferguson-Lees. Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic; Vol I Ostrich to Ducks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 19 857358 8. Very good copy. Some minor marking including remnants of label pasted to verso of half title. Wrapper complete but sunned. Very good in very good dust-jacket. Hardcover. (236) £25.00

Stanley Cramp (Chief Editor), K E L Simmons, I J Ferguson-Lees, Robert Gillmor, PAD Hollom et al. Handbook to the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic; Vol I Ostrich to Ducks. Bedfordshire: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds/ Oxford University Press, 1977. First limited edition. ISBN: 0 19857358 8. A near fine copy of the limited 1st edition, published a year early for members of the RSPB (5,000 copies printed). In very good wrapper. Near fine in very good dust-jacket. Hardcover. (13) £30.00

Stanley Cramp (Chief Editor), K E L Simmons, I J Ferguson-Lees, Robert Gillmor, PAD Hollom et al. Handbook to the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic; Vol II: Hawks to Bustards. Bedfordshire: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds/Oxford University Press, 1980. First limited edition. ISBN: 0 19 857505 x. A near fine copy of the 1st edition published by the RSPB for sale to its members in advance of general publication. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (14) £30.00

Stanley Cramp (Chief Editor), K E L Simmons, I J Ferguson-Lees, Robert Gillmor, PAD Hollom et al. Handbook to the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic; Vol III: Waders to Gulls. Bedfordshire: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds/Oxford University Press, 1983. First limited edition. ISBN: 0 19857505 x (v2). A very good copy of the first limited edition - published to be sold by the RSPB to its members. Very good in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (15) £30.00

Stanley Cramp (Chief Editor), K E L Simmons, I J Ferguson-Lees, Robert Gillmor, PAD Hollom et al. Handbook to the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic; Vol IV: Terns to Woodpeckers. Oxford: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds/Oxford University Press, 1985. First limited edition. ISBN: 0 19 857505 x (v2). A near fine copy of the 1st limited edition produced for sale by the RSPB to its members. With the original errata slip. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (16) £30.00

Stanley Cramp (Chief Editor), K E L Simmons, Robert Gillmor, P A D Hollom et al. Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic; Vol II Hawks to Bustards. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 19 857505 x. Near fine in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (240) £25.00

Stanley Cramp (Chief Editor), K E L Simmons, Robert Gillmorr et al. Handbook to the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa; Volume II Hawks to Bustards. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 19 857505 x. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (606) £22.00

Stanley Cramp (editor), K E L Simmons, Duncan J Brooks et al. Handbook of the Birds of Europe the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic; Volume III: Waders to Gulls. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 19 857506 8. A near fine copy in near fine wrap. 1st edition, printed for the RSPB by Oxford University Press. 913pp. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (751) £25.00

Stanley Cramp (editor), K E L Simmons, Robert Gillmor et al. Handbook of the Birds of Europe the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic; Volume II: Hawks to Bustards. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 19 857505 x. Small nick to top page edge of final pp. 695pp. 1st edition printed by Oxford University Press for the RSPB. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (752) £25.00 Stanley Cramp, C M Perrins (Senior Editor), Duncan J Brooks (Executive Editor), Euan Dunn et al. Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic; Vol VII Flycatchers to Shrikes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 19 857510 6. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (234) £30.00

Stanley Cramp, C M Perrins (Senior Editor), Duncan J Brooks (Executive Editor), Euan Dunn et al. Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic; Vol VIII Crows to Finches. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 19 854679 3. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (237) £30.00

Stanley Cramp, C M Perrins (Senior Editor), Duncan J Brooks (Executive Editor), Euan Dunn et al. Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic; Vol IX Buntings and New World Warblers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 19 854843 5. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (238) £30.00

Stanley Cramp, C M Perrins (Senior Editor), Duncan J Brooks (Executive Editor), Euan Dunn, Robert Gillmor et al. Handbook to the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic; Vol VII: Flycatchers to Shrikes. Oxford : Royal Society for the Protection of Birds/Oxford University Press, 1993. 1st limited edition. ISBN: 0 19 857510 6. A fine copy in fine wrapper, produced for the RSPB to sell to its members. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (19) £30.00

Stanley Cramp, C M Perrins (Senior Editor), Duncan J Brooks (Executive Editor), Euan Dunn, Robert Gillmor et al. Handbook to the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic; Vol VIII: Crows to Finches. Oxford: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds/Oxford University Press, 1994. First limited edition. ISBN: 0 19 854679 3. A fine copy in fine wrapper. Produced by Oxford University Press for the RSPB for sale to its members. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (20) £30.00

Stanley Cramp, C M Perrins (Senior Editor), Duncan J Brooks (Executive Editor), Euan Dunn, Robert Gillmor et al. Handbook to the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic; Vol IX: Buntings and New World Warblers. Oxford : Royal Society for the Protection of Birds/Oxford University Press, 1994. First limited edition. ISBN: 0 19 854843 5. A fine copy in fine wrapper. Last volume in the series, produced by OUP for the RSPB for sale to its members. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (21) £30.00

Stanley Cramp, C M Perrins (Senior Editor), Duncan J Brooks et al. Handbook of the Birds of Europe the Middle East and North Africa; Vol VIII Crows to Finches. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1994. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 19 854679 3. Near fine clean copy in near fine wrapper. !st edition printed by the OUP for the RSPB. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (748) £25.00

Stanley Cramp, C M Perrins (Senior Editor), Duncan J Brooks et al. Handbook of the Birds of Europe the Middle East and North Africa; Volume 7: Flycatchers to Shrikes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 19 857510 6. Near fine copy in VG+ wrapper. 1st edition, printed by OUP for the RSPB and only to be sold to its members. Near fine in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (749) £25.00

Stanley Cramp, C M Perrins (Senior Editor), Duncan J Brooks et al. Handbook of the Birds of Europe the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic; Volume IX: Buntings and New World Warblers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 19 854843 5. Near fine copy of the 1st edition. Printed by the OUP for the RSPB. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (750) £25.00

Stanley Cramp, Duncan J Brooks (Executive Editor), Euan Dunn et al. Handbook of the Birds of Europe the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic; Volume VI: Warblers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. 1st Edition. ISBN: 19 857509 2. Near fine copy. 728pp. Produced by the Oxford University Press for the RSPB to be sold to their members. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (756) £25.00

Stanley Cramp, Duncan J Brooks (Executive Editor), Euan Dunn et al. Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic; Vol VI Warblers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 19 857509 2. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (239) £30.00

Stanley Cramp, Duncan J Brooks (Executive Editor), Euan Dunn, Robert Gillmor, Joan Hall-Crags et al. Handbook to the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic; Vol VI: Warblers. oxford: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds/Oxford University Press, 1992. 1st limited edition. ISBN: 0 19 857509 2. A fine copy in fine wrapper of the 1st limited edition - produced to be sold by the RSPB to its members. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (18) £30.00

Stanley Cramp, W R P Bourne, David Saunders. The Seabirds of Britain and Ireland. London: Collins, 1974. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 00 216753 0. Very good + in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1308) £4.00

Stanley Cramp, W R P Bourne, David Saunders. The Seabirds of Britain and Ireland. London: Collins, 1974. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 00 216753 0. Very good + in good dust-jacket. Hardcover. (2779) £5.00

Stephanie J Tyler and Stephen J Ormerod. The Dippers. London : T & A D Poyser, 1994. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 093 3. Wrapper in very clean condition but with tape repair internally to a tear. Fine in very good dust-jacket. Hardcover. (87) £35.00

Stephen Message, Don Taylor. Waders of Europe, Asia and North America; Helm Field Guide. London: Christopher Helm, 2005. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 7136 5290 x. Near fine. Softcover. (1340) £20.00

Stephen Moss. Mrs Moreau's Warbler. How Birds Got Their Names. London: Guardian Faber , 2019. 1st paperback. ISBN: 9761783350919. Slight corner turn to front cover. Very good. Softcover. (3648) £4.00

Steve Madge and Hilary Burn. Crows and Jays; A Guide to the Crows, Jays and Magpies of the World. London : Christopher Helm. ISBN: 0 7136 3999 7. Near fine copy. Remains of pasted label to front endpaper. Undated. Looks to be early edition. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (253) £20.00

Steve Madge and Hilary Burn. Wildfowl; An identification guide to the ducks, geese and swans of the world. London: Christopher Helm, 1988. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 7470 2201 1. Near fine clean copy. Remains of pasted label to front endpaper. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (249) £12.00

Steve Madge and Hilary Burn. Wildfowl. An identification guide to the ducks, geese and swans of the world. London: Christopher Helm , 1988. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 7470 2201 1. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1297) £10.00

Stuart Murray. Birds of St Kilda; Journal of the Scottish Ornithogists Club - Supplement to Vol 23. Musselburgh: Scottish Ornithologists' Club, 2002. 1st Edition. ISBN: 00369144. Very good +. Sotcover. (4017) £10.00

Stuart Smith. The Yellow Wagtail; A New Naturalist Monograph. London: Collins, 1950. 1st Edition. Sticker to front endpaper stating that this was presented to Torquay Natural History Society in 1970. Binding with slight fade to spine and a cloth ripple on the front board. Contents in very good clean condition. Wrapper with some edge nibbles and a lot of spotting. Very good in fair dust- jacket. Hardcover. (2109) £8.00

T A Coward. The Birds of the British Isles and Their Eggs Series I, II & III; Series I - Corvidae to Sulidae; Series II Anatidae to Tetraonidae; Series III Migration and Habits with observations on our rare visitants. London : Frederick Warne & Co Ltd , 1943. various. A good set. Series I, 1943 reprint of 6th edition - wrap poor, binding sound with wear to spine and corners, nasty crossing out on front endpaper, remaining contents in good clean condition; Series II 1943 reprint of 7th edition - condition as for Series I; and Series III 1943 reprint of 3rd edition - wrap fair, wear to spine and corners, signature to front endpaper, contents in good clean condition. Good in poor dust-jacket. Decorative cloth. (2007) £15.00

T A Coward. The Birds of the British Isles Vol III Migration and Habits. London: Frederick Warne & Co Ltd, 1941. 3rd edition. Clean copy with light wear. Good. Decorative cloth. (3061) £4.00

T A Coward, revised by A W Boyd . The Birds of the British Isles and Their Eggs Series I; Wayside and Woodland Series. London : Frederick Warne & Co Ltd , 1950. 7th edition. Binding shaken and with crease to back board. Signature to front endpaper but remaining contents in very good clean condition. Good +. Decorative cloth. (187) £7.50

T A Coward, revised by A W Boyd . The Birds of the British Isles and Their Eggs Series I; Wayside and Woodland Series. London : Frederick Warne & Co Ltd , 1928. 3rd edition. Very shaken with some splitting at the front endpaper joint. A lot of spotting to margins and page edges. Fair. Decorative cloth. (2657) £3.50

T A Coward, revised by A W Boyd . The Birds of the British Isles and Their Eggs Series II; Wayside and Woodland Series. London : Frederick Warne & Co Ltd , 1955. 8th edition. Nice clean sound copy. Very good. Decorative cloth. (3077) £5.00

T Bennet-Clark, George Salt et al (editors). Cambridge Monographs in Experimental Biology No 12. Bird-Song. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1961. 1st Edition. Some extremely nasty ex library additions, but contents otherwise clean. Fair in good dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1827) £3.00

T Hedley Bell. The Birds of Cheshire [with] A Supplement to the Birds of Cheshire. Altrincham : John Sherratt and Son , 1962 and 1967. 1st Edition. Very good. Hardcover. (1361) £13.00

T J Roberts. The Birds of Pakistan; Vol I Non-Passeriformes. Vol II Passeriformes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991-2. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 19 557404 3. A very good set. Bindings in very good clean condition - Vol II has a creased spine. Contents in very good condition - marking to front endpapers where a small label has been removed. Wrappers complete and clean - with some sunned areas. Very good in good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (244) £70.00

Ted Stokes. Birds of the Atlantic Ocean. Feltham : Country Life Books, 1968. 1st Edition. Illustrations by Keith Shackleton. Very good. Hardcover. (1370) £4.00 Thomas Bewick. A History of British Birds Vols I & II; Vol I: The History and Description of Land Birds. Vol II: The History and Description of Water Birds. Newcastle : T Bewick , 1821. A complete copy of the 1821 edition, including supplements with numerous woodcuts engraved by Thomas Bewick. In poor condition requiring restitching, rebinding and some repair. Both volumes have detached pages at the beginning and the pages have become dog-eared and edge-nibbled. Vol I is the worst of the two, with repaired margin/gutter tears at pp 43,45 and 58. There is some soot marking circa p 90 and 180. The supplement has some spotting and is loose and becoming dog- eared at the end. The index to the supplement has a repaired tear. Vol II is better in that the stitching is firmer and therefore the pages are in better condition. First 3 pages of the introduction detached, and a couple of loose sections elsewhere. An important work on ornithology and worth repair. Poor. Half leather with marbled boards. (163) £80.00

Thomas Pennant. British Zoology. Vols I & II (of 4): Quadrupeds and Birds. London: Wilkie and Robinson et al, 1812. New Edition. Volumes I & II of the 4 volume New Edition. Covering quadrupeds and land and water birds. In contemporary full calf which has been rebacked retaining the original endpapers with professional repair at the joints. Spines with small raised bands, gilt compartments and title labels; boards with blind stamped decoration, gilt ruled lines and gilt inner dentelles. Page edges and endpapers marbled. Both volumes have decorative engraved titles to each section - Vol I covering quadrupeds and land birds; Vol II covering water birds. Vol I with 65 plates plus 2 decorative titles; Vol II with 48 plates. Text pages with offsetting from the plates and a lot of browning/spotting. Plates generally clean. Original page markers present in both volumes. Bindings in very good condition with light wear to corners. Good +. Full calf. (2879) £120.00

Thomas Pennant. Introduction to Arctic Zoology (2 of 3 volumes). [Introduction volume written for 2nd edition, plus Vol I. Vol II lacking]. London: Robert Faulder , 1792. 2nd edition. A fair set of the first 2 volumes from the 2nd edition of Arctic Zoology. This includes the Orkney and Shetland sections which are part of the introductory volume. In original half morocco bindings with the stamp of the Royal College of Surgeons of England to the spines, and repeated on the title pages. The bindings are sound but the leather is very scuffed and rubbed. The buckram cloth is also scuffed with a little staining. Both volumes have an old library label on the front boards. Internally the contents are complete apart from a dedication in the introduction, but the large folding map has been bound into the wrong volume (the tie for it can still be seen in the introductory volume). The paper is quite toned, particularly at the top margin where is there is marking from being in a sooty atmosphere. Contents: Introductory volume - frontispiece; title; advert; plate list; text pp i - cccxxxiv with plates I - VI; exports lists 2 pp; Index 6pp. Vol I - title with moose vignette; folding map; text in sections covering Quadrupeds and Birds with half titles pp 1- 376 with plates VII - XIII. The Orkney and Shetland sections draws on work by the Rev George Low. Although Pennant does not give credit for Low's work in the advertisement section - where he thanks those who contributed - he does in the Plate list as follows: 'For the drawings from which these Antiquities were engraven, I am indebted to the Reverend Mr Low, Minister of Birsay in Orkney, who, at my request, made the voyage of the Orkney and Schetland Isles in 1778. He hath prepared his journal for the press; it is to be hoped, that the liberality of the public will enable him to give this addition to my labors, which will complete the acount of the northern part of the British dominions'. Fair. Half morocco. (4114) £350.00

Tom J Cade. The Falcons of the World. London: Collins, 1982. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 00 219251 9. With paintings by R David Digby. Some fading to the top of the binding. Very good + in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1581) £15.00

Valerie M Thom. Birds in Scotland. Calton : T & AD Poyser, 1986. Ist edition Published for the Scottish Ornithologists' Club. ISBN: 0 85661 040 2. Near fine in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1145) £12.00

W B Alexander. Birds of the Ocean. London: Putnam , 1955. 2nd edition. Extra illustrations pasted in. Good + in good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1381) £4.00 W B Baikie and Robert Heddle. Historia Naturalis Orcadensis Zoology Part 1. Being a catalogue of the Mammalia and Birds hitherto observed in the Orkney Islands. Edinburgh: Printed by J and W Paterson , 1848. 1st Edition. Extremely scarce survey of Orcadian fauna. Part 1 was all that was completed - Wiliam Balfour Baikie died in Sierra Leone at the age of 39 on his way back to the British Isles. In his short life he had acquired a significant reputation as an explorer, naturalist and traveller. Inn the original flexible cloth binding with gilt titles and blind stamped design to front cover and blind stamped design to rear. Inscription to front endpaper.Some small indentations (end of a knife??) have left an imprint on the front cover, front endpaper, title and introduction. Contents very clean. Very good. Softcover. (4355) £180.00

W G Hale. The New Naturalist Waders. London : Collins , 1980. ISBN: 0 00 219727 8. Near fine in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (166) £25.00

W H Hudson. Birds and Man. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1901. 1st Edition. A very bright clean copy in original cloth binding. Spine lightly faded with pulling to spine ends and light corner wear. Contents in fine clean condition. Series of essays on bird sound and behaviour. Very good. Hardcover. (4327) £10.00

W R Ogilvie-Grant. A Hand-Book to the Game-Birds Vol II; Lloyds' Natural History. London: Edward Lloyd Limited, 1897. 1st Edition. Issued in parts, eventually making up a set of 16 volumes. Game Birds was issued in 2 volumes, of which this is the second. In the original publisher's half leather binding which is very worn, particularly to spine joints and ends. Marbled page edges and endpapers. Complete with 24 colour printed plates bound at the rear. Generally clean and in very good condition internally. Some marking to endpapers. Fair. Half leather. (1173) £20.00

W R Ogilvie-Grant. A Hand-Book to the Game-Birds Vols I & II; Lloyds' Natural History. London: Edward Lloyd Limited, 1897. 1st Edition. Issued in parts, eventually making up a set of 16 volumes. The 2 vols of Game Birds are complete in themselves. In the original publisher's binding which is faded, particularly to the spines, with wear at spine ends and corners. Vol I: large signature dated 1900 to front endpaper. Contents complete with 24 colour-printed plates. A couple of plates with slight printing flaw. Vol II: Contents clean but shaken with stitching visible at a couple of points. Complete with 24 colour-printed plates. Text page 109 unopened. Good +. Decorative cloth. (1159) £45.00

W R Ogilvie-Grant. A Hand-Book to the Game-Birds Vols I & II. London: Edward Lloyd Limited, 1897. 1st Edition. Issued in parts, eventually making up a set of 16 volumes. The 2 vols of Game Birds are complete in themselves. In the original publisher's binding which is faded, particularly to the spines, with some pulling to spine ends. Vol I: large signature dated 1900 to front endpaper. Contents complete with 24 colour-printed plates. Vol II: Contents complete with 24 colour-printed plates. Both volumes very clean and in very good condition. Occasional light spotting. Very good. Decorative cloth. (1160) £50.00

W R Ogilvie-Grant. A Hand-Book to the Game-Birds Vols I & II; Lloyds' Natural History. London: Edward Lloyd Limited, 1896-7. 1st Edition. Issued in parts, eventually making up a set of 16 volumes. The 2 vols of Game Birds are complete in themselves. In a more expensive variant of the original publisher's binding which is bright and clean, with some pulling to spine ends and wear to corners. Slight marking to boards. Vol I: complete with 24 colour-printed plates, mostly with tissue guards. Vol II: complete with 24 colour-printed plates, again tissue-guarded. Both volumes are very clean and in very good condition with some browning to tissue guards and the occasional nick to page edges. Very good +. Decorative cloth. (1172) £55.00

W R Ogilvie-Grant. A Hand-Book to the Game-Birds Vols I & II; Lloyds' Natural History. London: Edward Lloyd Limited, 1896-7. 1st Edition. Issued in parts, eventually making up a set of 16 volumes. The 2 vols of Game Birds are complete in themselves. In a more expensive variant of the original publisher's binding which is bright and clean, with some pulling to spine ends and wear and bumping to corners. Slight marking to boards and spines. Vol I: complete with 24 colour-printed plates, with tissue guards. Vol II: complete with 24 colour-printed plates, again tissue-guarded. Both volumes are very clean and in very good condition with some browning to tissue guards and light toning to page edges. Very good. Decorative cloth. (1174) £50.00

W Swaysland, R Kearton. Familiar Wild Birds; Series I, II, III & IV. London, Paris, New York: Cassell & Company Limited , 1883. 1st Edition. A good to very good copy of the full work by W Swaysland, with sections on eggs in each volume written by R Kearton. In typical late Victorian decorative cloth binding with bevelled edges to boards and use of gilt decoration. Each book has 40 colour printed plates, mostly by Thorburn, of which 4 are of eggs. There is a sad note in the final volume saying that the final volume contains more examples of birds which are 'familiar' no longer. The writer hoped that perhaps the publicity generated through the books might lead to better conservation of our native birds. The bindings all have wear to corners and edges and tops and bottoms of spines. They are all very clean. Internally contents are complete and the plates all have tissue guards. There is some foxing (light brown spotting), more prevalent in the first 2 volumes and, generally most noticeable in the margins - particularly the top margin. The spotting is quite common in books of this date and with this paper. Tops of books are more affected generally through the impact of coal or wood fires and the resulting soot in the atmosphere. All volumes have a publisher's catalogue at the rear and the final volume contains the index. The second volume has a small repaired edge tear to the plate of the Swift. Good. Original cloth. (109) £80.00

Ward J M Hagemeijer and Michael J Blair. The EBCC Atlas of European Breeding Birds; Their distribution and abundance. London : T & A D Poyser, 1997. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 091 7. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (108) £20.00

Ward J M Hagemeijer, Michael J Blair (editors). The EBBC Atlas of European Breeding Birds. London: T & A D Poyser , 1997. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 091 7. Front bottom corner bumped. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1292) £20.00

William Groundwater. Birds and Mammals of Orkney. Kirkwall: Kirkwall Press, 1974. 1st Edition. Dust jacket a bit nibbled with slight loss and a bit grubby. Book in good condition - some light marking to boards, contents clean. Frontispiece beginning to detach. Good + in fair dust-jacket. Hardcover. (359) £16.00

William Groundwater. Birds and Mammals of Orkney. Kirkwall: Kirkwall Press, 1974. 1st Edition. Wrapper price clipped with some nibbling and an old sellotape repair. Boards with slight warp. Contents clean with small inscription to half title page. Good + in fair dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1849) £16.00

William Groundwater. Birds and Mammals of Orkney. Kirkwall: Kirkwall Press, 1974. 1st Edition. Dust jacket a bit nibbled with browning at edges. Book in very good clean condition with small note to front endpaper. With handwritten listing of the Orkney names for birds. Very good in good dust- jacket. Hardcover. (1994) £25.00

William Yarrell. A History of British Birds. London: John Van Voorst, 1845. 2nd editionn. A very good set in 3 volumes with additional supplement to the 2nd edition included in Vol III. In contemporary half calf with cobbled cloth boards. Elaborate gilt compartments, raised bands, and title/volume labels to spines. Marbled page edges. Endpapers with small bookplate 'carbone notandus'. Bindings in very good clean condition with light wear. Contents complete and clean. Endpapers and initial and final blanks with spotting. Very good. Half leather. (1147) £80.00

William Yarrell. A History of British Birds. London: John Van Voorst, 1856. 3rd edition. The 3rd enlarged edition in 3 volumes expanded to include 17 new species. In cloth bindings rebacked with newer cloth spines and original title labels relaid. Wear to corners and edges. Contents in good clean condition. Fair. Hardcover. (4356) £70.00 Poyser

A J Prater. Estuary Birds of Britain and Ireland. Calton : T & A D Poyser Ltd, 1981. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 029 1. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1319) £9.00

Andrew Village. The Kestrel. London : T & A D Poyser, 1990. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 054 2§§§. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (96) £35.00

Andy Brown and Phil Grice. Birds in England. London: T & A D Poyser , 2005. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 7136 6530 0. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1293) £15.00

Arne Lundberg and Rauno V Alatalo. The Pied Flycatcher. London : T & A D Poyser, 1992. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 072 0. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (103) £35.00

C H Fry. The Bee-Eaters. Calton : T & A D Poyser Ltd, 1984. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 037 2. Very good + in very good dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1333) £20.00

Clive D Hutchinson. Birds in Ireland. Calton : T & A D Poyser, 1989. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 052 6. Very good + in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1616) £15.00

Clive Finlayson. Birds of the Strait of Gibraltar. London : T & A D Poyser, 1992. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 066 6. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (92) £30.00

D S Bunn, A B Warburton, R D S Wilson. The Barn Owl. Calton : T & A D Poyser, 1982. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 032 1. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (100) £20.00

D S Bunn, A B Warburton, R D S Wilson. The Barn Owl. Calton : T & A D Poyser Ltd, 1982. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 032 1. Very good + in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1320) £20.00

David Wingfield Gibbons, James B Reid, Robert A Chapman. The New Atlas of Breeding Birds in Britain and Ireland: 1988-1991. London : T & A D Poyser , 1993. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 075 5. Very good in very good dust-jacket. (190) £20.00

Derek Ratcliffe. The Peregrine Falcon. Calton : T & A D Poyser, 1980. 1st Edition. ISBN: o 85661 026 7. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (98) £15.00

Derek Ratcliffe. The Peregrine Falcon. Calton : T & A D Poyser Ltd, 1980. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 026 7. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1309) £13.00

Derek Yalden. The History of British Mammals; Poyser Natural History. London: T & A D Poyser Ltd, 1999. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 110 7. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1566) £10.00 Desmond and Maimie Nethersole-Thompson. Greenshanks. Birkhamsted : T & A D Poyser, 1979. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 022 4. Some marking to endpapers. Very good + in very good dust- jacket. Hardcover. (1302) £20.00

Desmond Nethersole-Thompson. Pine Crossbills. Birkenhead: T & A D Poyser, 1975. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 011 9. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (85) £20.00

Donald Watson. The Hen Harrier. Berkhamsted: T & A D Poyser, 1977. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 015 1. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (99) £20.00

Graham Martin. Birds by Night. London: T & A D Poyser, 1990. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 059 3. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1610) £25.00

Heimo Mikkola. Owls of Europe. Calton : T & A D Poyser Ltd, 1983. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 034 8. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1316) £15.00

Ian Newton. Population Ecology of Raptors. Berkhamsted: T & A D Poyser, 1979. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 023 2. price clipped jacket. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (102) £20.00

Ian Newton. Population Ecology of Raptors. Berkhamsted: T & A D Poyser Ltd, 1979. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 023 2. Fine in good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1324) £18.00

J Laughton Johnson. A Naturalist's Shetland; Poyser Natural History. London: T & AD Poyser Ltd, 1999. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 105 0. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1495) £25.00

J Laughton Johnson. A Naturalist's Shetland; Poyser Natural History. London: T & AD Poyser Ltd, 1999. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 105 0. Nice clean copy with wrap. Light wear to corners and edges. Near fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (3925) £18.00

J N Dymond, P A Fraser, S J M Gauntlet. Rare Birds in Britain and Ireland. Calton : T & A D Poyser Ltd, 1989. 1st Edition. ISBN: 085661 053 4. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1315) £5.00

J T R Sharrock. Scarce Migrant Birds in Britain and Ireland. Berkhamsted: T & A D Poyser Ltd, 1974. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 008 9. Very good + in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1314) £10.00

J T R Sharrock & E M Sharrock. Rare Birds in Britain and Ireland. Berkhamsted: T & A D Poyser, 1976. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 014 3. Spine slightly cocked; dustwrapper with slight marking. Very good + in very good dust-jacket. Hardcover. (105) £8.00 J T R Sharrock & E M Sharrock. Rare Birds in Britain and Ireland. Birkhamsted : T & A D Poyser Ltd, 1976. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 014 3. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1300) £6.00

J T R Sharrock and P J Grant. Birds new to Britain and Ireland. Calton : T & A D Poyser Ltd, 1982. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 033 x. Fine in very good dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1317) £10.00

Janet Kear. Man and Wildfowl. London : T & A D Poyser, 1990. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 055 0. With author's signature to title page. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (89) £15.00

Janet Kear. Man and Wildfowl. London: T & A D Poyser, 1990. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 055 0. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1329) £12.00