Resultados da Pesquisa: a history of british birds volume por bewick thomas

Paperback / softback. New.

Newcastle upon Tyne : Frank Graham, 1972. Facsimile of the sixth edition of 1826, volume 2 only (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), xxii, 432pp. Text illustrations throughout. Original blue cloth, dustwrapper. Minor spotting to the top edge of the text block, else the book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition (dustwrapper price-clipped).

The Folio Society, 1910. Hardcover. Good. 1910. No edition remarks. 431 pages. No dust jacket. Quarter bound blue leather with marbled paper covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. No slipcase. Pages are bright and clear with no visible markings. Binding throughout remains firm. Boards have light edge wear with minor corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine, with occasional markings overall.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Hardback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Yale University: R. Hunter Middleton, 1976. "This impression from the original engraved boxwood block, now in the collection of the Newberry Library in Chicago, has been taken by R. Hunter Middleton as a keepsake for guests at the Carl Purington Rollins Lectures on the Typographic Tradition, Yale University, April 1976. Printed on a sheet measuring about 8 x 10 inches, in a gray paper portfolio with a printed label on the front. Fine condition. Middleton was a type designer and art director; he also was a collector of Bewick, and gave a number of original Bewick engraved blocks to the Newberry Library. Number of copies is unknown.

Newcastle upon Tyne; Frank Graham, 1971., 1971. Hard Cover. Facsimile of the 1826 Sixth Edition, limited to 950 copies. Octavo, pp. [4], iii, [1], xliv, 382; [4], iii, [1], xxii, 432. Illustrated throughout with Bewick's woodcut illustrations of the birds, and head- and tail-pieces. Publishers' faux leather in dark green and royal blue respectively, with silver and gilt titles and vignettes to spines and wood-grain and marbled effect endpapers, in price-clipped pictorial dust-jackets. Boards bruised to lower edge and top edges a little dusty (both volumes) otherwise clean bright copies; no annotation or inscriptions. Jackets lightly toned, and creased top edge. A Very Good set. The forerunner of all modern field guides, Bewick's 'History of British Birds' changed the public's perception of the natural world; it is a landmark in natural history illustration and is one of the most important illustrated books ever printed. This edition is a facsimile of the last edition seen through the press by… Ler mais

Menston: The Scolar Press, 1972. Facsimile of the 6th edition. Pages clean and bright, small inscription on half-title page, boards and binding tidy, minimal shelf wear to dust jacket.. Facsimile. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne: R E Bewick; Longman & Co. G: in good condition. Ex-lib. Library rebind with new eps. 1832. First edition thus. Green hardback cloth cover. 230mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). xxii, 424pp. Hundreds of fine b/w etchings. .

Folio Society, London 2010 (reprinting the 1826 edition, with minor emendations). 23.0 x 15.0cms, c 760pp, b/w illusts, 2 fine hardback volumes with decorated boards in fine plain slipcase. Volume I covers: birds of prey (falcons, owls, shrikes); birds of the pie kind (prieles, woodpeckers; grosbeaks; buntings; finches; flycathers; larks;warblers; titmouses; swallows; doves; gallinaceous; grouses; bustards; plowers) Volume II covers: herons; spoonbills; ibises; curlews; snipes; godwits; sandpipers; oyster-catchers; avosets; gallinules; coots; phalaropes; grebes; guillemots; divers; terns; predatory gulls; petrels; merguses, anases; pelicans; auks.

Newcastle Upon Tyne: Frank Graham, 1971. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Boards tidy. Light spotting to reading edge. Light staining to top edge. Dust jacket has some rubbing, sunning to back and staining to bottom of rear spine. Spine has light fading. Some creasing and light fraying to top edge of jacket.. Hard. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

Newcastle/London: R.E. Bewick and Longman & Co., 1847 Later printing. 8vo; pp. xxxix, xxxvi, 374, [1]; illustrated from wood engravings by Bewick. Newspaper clipping to front endpaper; light wear to extremities; contents clean and tight; a good copy or better in original gilt-stamped green cloth. Originally published in 1797. This edition, Volume One only, "...contains about 20 additional vignettes, not before published, which were designed and engraved by Bewick, being part of a series intended by him as embellishments for a History of British Fishes, on which he was engaged at the time of his death.".

London: Folio Society, 2010. First Folio Society Printing. Hardcover. Fine. Two volume set in slipcase. 23 x 14 cm. Octavo. 382pp, 431pp. Bound into 1/4 teal leather with marble covers. Divided into two volumes "Land Birds" and "Water Birds". Text based on that of the 1826 edition.

Newcastle, England: Bewick/Longman & Co, 1847. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo (9"x5.5"). 406pp. & 374pp. +appendices. Both volumes unbound in black cloth-covered solander boxes & slipcovers with giltstamped titles to spines. Pages are single leaves (not signatures), stabbed as if for sewing along the left edge. Volume I is missing its title page: first leaf is an advertisement, followed by the preface & introduction. B&W engraved cuts throughout both volumes.

Newcastle: Edward Walker. Very Good. 1821. Hardcover. 360pp + 44pp supplement, illustrated throughout marbled endpapers, bound in full calf, gilt lining to covers gilt lettering to spine; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Newcastle: Printed by Edward Walker for T. Bewick: sold by him, and Longman and Co. London , 1816. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor copy in half leather over marble boards. Spine bands worn with some loss. Partial spine band loosely inserted. Scattered foxing throughout. Physical description: 361 pages. Subjects: Birds Great Britain. Birds history. Ornithology.

Newcastle: Sol. Hodgson, for Belby & Bewick. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1797. First Edition. Hardcover. Beautifully rebound in tan half calf, maroon Morocco label with gilt titles, marbled boards, 117 figures of birds of which 44 have been hand colored, a lovely clean, tight copy. Volume one of a two volume set. ; 8" x 6.5"; 355 pages .

, 'A History of British Birds' contains Vol.I containing the History and Description of Land Birds; Vol.II containing the History and Description of Water Birds; illustrated title pages, wood engravings of the birds throughout both volumes along side numerous other vignettes, 'A General History of Quadrupeds' contains an Illustrated title page and black and white wood engravings of mammals throughout