Ornithology from William Chrisant & Sons' Florida Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, FABA

Green and tan cloth with a black pictorial dustjacket. Complete with 60 ornithology plates many of which are in color and all blank to verso. Dustjacket has some tears and tape remnants (see image). Minor toning to endpapers. No previous owners' names or other defacements. Scarce. Please expect the possibility of additional postage as this is a large book. 11.5 x… Ler mais sobre este item

Limited to only 150 copies, of which this is number 42, and signed by Frederick Marns, Lord Selborne, and David Attenborough. Quarter brown leather over linen boards with a matching slipcase. Bound by Zaehnsdorf's of London. Gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. Minor foxing to outer slipcase (see image). A clean copy with no previous owners' names or other… Ler mais sobre este item

Three volume set with Vol. I covering ornithology, Vol. II is entomology with predominantly butterflies and moths, and lastly Vol. III is conchology. Handsome uniformed bindings of green morocco with significant gilt detailings to covers and spines. All edges gilt. Moire endpapers and gilt dentelles. A total of 182 hand-colored plates throughout with tissue guards. Moisture stains to initial and… Ler mais sobre este item

Three volumes in half red morocco over marbled boards accompanied by the professionally rebacked polished calf folio volume. The latter with 76 striking tissue-guarded hand-colored engraved plates. A second (& much better) edition of the first edition including Ord's Life of Wilson and a very much superior issuance of the plates. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Some general wear… Ler mais sobre este item

Vol. VII only. Half morocco over marbled boards. Five raised bands and gilt particulars. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Complete with 80 hand-colored lithographs with tissue guards. Damage to tail of spine and to bottom of front board (see image), as well as some wear to head of spine. Text block reattached to spine (see image). A clean copy with… Ler mais sobre este item

Four volume set complete with 27 hand-colored plates. Vol. 1 Philadelphia, Carey, Lea & Carey... William Brown, Printer, 1825. [vii], 105pp, plates 1-9. Vol. 2 Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey, 1828. [ix], 95pp. Plates 10-15. Vol. 3 Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey, 1828. 59 pp. Plates 16-21. Vol. 4 Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1833. 142 pp. Plates 22-27. Browning to… Ler mais sobre este item

Limited facsimile edition of 500 numbered copies, of which this is number 431. Includes the two loose proof plates as called for (plate 9 Crested Thrush and plate 22 White-Breasted Honey-Sucker). Attractively bound by Dove Bindery, Melbourne. Grained calf with two raised bands and a gilt title to spine. Housed in a tan cloth clamshell case. Top edge gilt. A… Ler mais sobre este item

Orange/brown cloth with gilt particulars and a dustjacket. Some wear around jacket and to front cover (see image), but otherwise a bright clean copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements. A limited edition. 9 x 11.5 in

First American edition. Green cloth covered boards with a clipped pictorial dustjacket. Spotting to cloth on covers (see image). Wear to jacket (see image), but otherwise no previous owners' names or other defacements. 5.25 x 7.75 in

Hand colored engraved plate, A Hybrid Bird, by J. F. Miller bound before page 65. Paper covered boards with marbled covers. Wear to corners and some staining to spine with remnants of a label (see image). No previous owners' names or other defacements. 5.25 x 8 in

Rebound in blue cloth with new endpapers. Gilt title to spine. Complete with five black/white engravings, including the frontispiece. Previous owner's pink library stamp to title page, as well as a prior owner's neat inscription to rear fly and name to front fly signed with the author's respects. Overall a clean copy with no further defacements. 6 x 9.25 in

Cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine and a very nice dustjacket. Housed in a beige cloth covered slipcase. Green endpapers. An attractive clean copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements. Please expect the possibility of extra postage as this is a large and heavy book. 11.5 x 16.25 in (29 x 41 cm)

Hand-colored aquatint engraving on J. Whatman Turkey Mill dated 1825. Plate XIX from Audubon's Birds of America, London, 1827-1838. Overall toning (see image). Tape residue causing wavy edges. Matte burn (see image). May require additional postage due to its large size. The page measures 25.25 x 38 in.

Two volumes in one. Bound in early twentieth century half green morocco over green cloth boards. Five raised bands with gilt particulars to spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. From the library of H. Bradley Martin with his modest bookplate to front pastedown. Includes Sotheby's lot-bookmark from the famous sale. As is common, this volume lacks the title preliminaries to… Ler mais sobre este item

Blue stapled paper wraps. A total of 16 issues including the complete year of 1930 and 1932, as well as January-June of 1931 and March-April of 1923. Colored frontis plates. No previous owners' names or other defacements. 6.5 x 9.5 in

A hand-colored pictorial title page, as well as 11 additonal hand-colored plates of birds with tissue guards. The scarce fold-out calendar of 1816 to rear is present. Light pink paper covered boards with matching slipcase. All edges gilt. French text. No previous owners' names or other defacements. 3.25 x 4.75 in

Three volume complete set. Paper wraps, two of which are in mylar. Large folding-map to volume III. Nice full page colored plates throughout. Staining to the front cover of Vol. I and top edge (see image). No previous owners' names or other defacements. 9.5 x 13.25 in each

Blue cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine and a dustjacket. Foxing to top edge, but otherwise a clean copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements. 6.25 x 9.25 in

Full yellow cloth with a dustjacket wrapped in mylar. Minor ink notation to corner of front fly, but otherwise a nice clean copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements. 6.25 x 9.24 in

Full red cloth with gilt particulars. Complete with twenty-nine hand-colored plates with tissue guards, in addition to two frontispieces. Top edge gilt. No previous owners' names or other defacements. 4.5 x 6.75 in