Category: Birds/Ornithology

Bird Tales

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Boston, MA, Lothrop Publishing Co. : 1889

Seller ID: 018015

Condition: Very Good

Red 1/4 cloth, color lithographed paper covered boards. Cloth is mildly faded; rubbed edges, with exposure and some layering at corners, overall still presentable. Firm binding, clean interior. Unpaginated, approx. [96] pp., illus. within text, some full-page plates. Better than average, given age and status as children's book.
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Birds: A Monthly Serial Designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life [Volumes I-III (1897-98)]

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Chicago, IL, Nature Study Publishing Company : 1896

Seller ID: 011866

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

Deaccessioned from non-circulating museum library, nominally marked/stamped, little actual wear, clear-coated spine panel (slightly age-toned) with hand-written call number on lower portion. Bound in dark green cloth, with gilt lettering on spine panel (text block very slightly trimmed). Volumes 1-3 (1897-98), complete: Volume I Jan.-June 1897, 224 pp., continuously paginated, with index; Volume II July-Dec. 1897, 240 pp., continuously paginated; Volume III Jan.-June 1898, 240 pp., continuously paginated, with index. Each issue contains 8 or 9 gorgeous full color plates; also retained here are...
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Catalogue of Birds, Eggs and Nests -- Museum Greene Smith, Peterboro, NY, July 11, 1880

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Morrisville, NY, Greene Smith Museum [Printed at the Madison Observer Office] : 1881

Seller ID: 012044

Binding: Cloth

Condition: VG+

Brown cloth, lettered in gilt on front panel. Deaccessioned from non-circulating museum library, nominally marked/stamped, clear-coated spine panel (slightly age-toned) with handwritten call number on lower portion. Modest shelf wear, lightly rubbed corners and spine extremities. 162 pp. Clean interior, firm binding. Very scarce.
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Diary of a Voyage from Rotterdam to Philadelphia in 1728 / A Brief History of the Colony of New Sweden / A Contribution to Pennsylvania History: Missives to Rev. August Herman Francke from Daniel Falckner, Germantown, April 16, 1702, and Justus Falckner, New York, 1704 / Pennsylvania-German Literature: Harbaugh's Harfe / Church Records of the Williams Township Congregation [Pennsylvania German Society Vol. XVIII (18) (1907)]

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Lancaster, PA, Pennsylvania German Society : 1909

Seller ID: 057180

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Good

PGS Vol. XVIII (18). Softcover, blue stiff paper wraps, lettered in dark blue, rough-cut text block edges. Covers show typical wear along edges with minor loss, surface loss at two spots on front cover, binding stressed but firm. This volume also contains a summary of, and reports from, the annual meeting in Philadelphia.
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Diary of a Voyage from Rotterdam to Philadelphia in 1728 / A Brief History of the Colony of New Sweden / A Contribution to Pennsylvania History: Missives to Rev. August Herman Francke from Daniel Falckner, Germantown, April 16, 1702, and Justus Falckner, New York, 1704 / Pennsylvania-German Literature: Harbaugh's Harfe / Church Records of the Williams Township Congregation [Pennsylvania German Society Vol. XVIII (18) (1907)]

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Lancaster, PA, Pennsylvania German Society : 1909

Seller ID: 061495

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Good

PGS Vol. XVIII (18). Original copy, rebound in stiff light blue cardstock wraps retaining a portion of original front cover, with black cloth tape binding, not elegant but certainly functional. Final leaf is partial, with loss along edges but textually complete, laid in at rear. This volume also contains a summary of, and reports from, the annual meeting in Philadelphia. 55,25,44,21,17,101 pp.
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Ducks: A Portfolio of Engravings of Ducks By the Famous Artist Thomas Bewick 1753-1828

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Gentry : 1951

Seller ID: 013936

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

Olive stiff paper wraps, lettered and illus. in brown. Light edge wear. 16 pp., illus.
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Guide to the Gallery of Birds in the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Trustees of the British Museum : 1910

Seller ID: 011021

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good-VG

Deaccessioned from non-circulating museum research library, nominally marked/stamped, clear-coated spine panel (slightly toned). Green 1/4 cloth, printed green paper over boards. Rubbed along fore-edge with slight chipping to paper, corners a bit rounded. v,228,[ii] pp., illus. w/ 25 full page b&w plates. Clean text block and plates, generally firm binding though partially split at pp. 64/65.
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John James Audubon: The Birds of America [Sotheby's New York Sale 5279, 28-29 Jan. 1985]

Price: $14.95

Publisher: New York, Sotheby's : 1985

Seller ID: 044556

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Stiff color illus. wraps. 435 catalogued lots, all illus. in b&w, w/ 20 color plates. Slightly rubbed corners, light creasing to top rear corner.
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Squills: The Original Racing Pigeon Year Book - 1948

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, The Racing Pigeon Publishing Co., Ltd. : 1948

Seller ID: 054654

ISBN: B00NLIU7GK

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Stiff red wraps, lettered/illus. in black. 316 pp., illus. Former owner's inscription along top edge of front cover, with her initials inked on all three text block edges, mild handling wear.
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A List of British Birds [Second Edition]

By: A Committee of the British Ornithologists' Union (compilers)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, British Ornithologists' Union : 1915

Seller ID: 011023

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fair

Deaccessioned from non-circulating museum research library, nominally marked/stamped, rebound in dark red cloth, lettered in gilt. xxii,316 pp. (only), illus. title page. Lacking final entry (Lagopus, p. 317), 3 appendices, index--very curious that a museum library should have chosen to rebind an incomplete copy. Light shelf wear. Clean text block, firm binding. Solid Near Fine in terms of presentation, condition notes rebound status. Very durable reference copy, much preferable to the original binding (wraps). Please note incomplete status.
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The History of American Ornithology Before Audubon [SIGNED/INSCRIBED]

By: Allen, Elisa Guerdrum

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, American Philosophical Society : 1951

Seller ID: 049865

ISBN: B000WW4JXU

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

SIGNED/INSCRIBED. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 41, Pt. 3 (1951). Original edition custom-bound in red-orange buckram, lettered in gilt on black title panel on spine. Former owner's name in gilt stamped on lower front cover. Cloth slightly spotted, text block edges a bit toned, otherwise essentially as issued. [ii],387-591 pp., illus. in b&w. Signed by author on lower main title beneath printed name, additionally inscribed and signed again at top corner of main title, personalized to a Mr. De Loach.
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Parrots in the City: One Bird's Struggle For a Place on the Planet

By: Athan, Mattie Sue; Davey, Jon-Mark; Davey, JoAnn with Mattie Sue Athan

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Booklocker.com, Inc. for Quaker Parakeet Society : 2004

Seller ID: 034504

ISBN-13: 9781591135630

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Stiff color illus. wraps. Mere hints of rubbing at corners, with slight binding lean original to issue. xvi,134 pp., illus. Very scarce.
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Wildfowl Art: Carvings from the Ward World Championship

By: Aziz, Laurel (text); Ernie Sparks (photographs)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Willowdale, Ontario, Canada, Firefly Books : 1996

Seller ID: 023028

ISBN-13: 9781552090435

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Tan cloth-effect paper-covered boards, lettered in gold foil. Basically as issued. Dust jacket shows slight surface rubbing, nearly as issued, now in archival mylar. 119 pp., illus. w/ color plates.
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The Birds of the British Isles, Volume VI: Ciconiidae - Ardeidae - Phoenicopteridae - Anatidae

By: Bannerman, David Armitage

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Edinburgh and London, Oliver and Boyd : 1957

Seller ID: 051388

ISBN: B015ALF8BE

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Green buckram, lettered in gilt. Former owner's name stamp on text block fore-edge and upper front flyleaf, otherwise essentially as issued. Color illus. dust jacket shows a few small chips and short closed edge tears, tanned spine panel, now in mylar. x,327 pp., 26 color plates w/ captioned guards. 1st ed.
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Tropical Wild Life in British Guiana [Volume I]

By: Beebe, William, G. Inness Hartley, and Paul G. Howes [Col. Theodore Roosevelt (intro.)]

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, New York Zoological Society : 1917

Seller ID: 012215

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Dark green cloth, illus. and lettered in gilt. Deaccessioned from non-circulating museum library, minimally marked/stamped, clear-coated spine panel with handwritten call label on lower spine panel. Lightly rubbed at corners and spine extremities. Contemporary review mounted on front endpapers. 504 pp., illus. w/ 143 figures, including photographs and line drawings, 4 color plates. Volume I only (all published).
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Hunting the Long-Tailed Bird

By: Bell, Bob

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, NY, Hawthorn Books : 1975

Seller ID: 023983

ISBN-13: 9780801538377

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: VG+

Color illus. stiff wraps. Light shelf wear, mildly creased but firm and square binding. Short gift inscription inside front cover. vii,212 pp., illus.
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Life Histories of North American Birds [Complete in (26) Volumes]

By: Bent, Arthur Cleveland

Price: $275.00

Publisher: New York, Dover Publications : 1964

Seller ID: 057566

ISBN: B003WGVJHC

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Complete in twenty-six (26) volumes, uniformly bound in color pictorial wraps in various colors (green, blue, brown, gray, purple), republishing the original 26 Smithsonian ornithological reports authored by Bent (including 2 posthumously). One volume (Birds of Prey, Part 1) is issued in an earlier binding than the remainder of the set and does not quite match. Issued 1962-65. Volumes may show minor rubbing to corners and edges, but all are at least VG, most Near Fine to Fine, all with square, uncreased bindings, clean and unmarked interiors. CONTENTS: Thrushes, Kinglets, and their Allies;...
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Life Histories of North American Marsh Birds

By: Bent, Arthur Cleveland

Price: $6.50

Publisher: New York, Dover : 1963

Seller ID: 014220

ISBN-13: 9780486210827

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Unabridged republication of the 1st (1926) edition. xii,392 pp., 98 full page plates. Bibliography, index. One crease to spine, several light cover creases, wear at corners.
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Birds of Jamaica

By: Bernal, Frank (text, paintings)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Kingston, Jamaica, Heinemann Publishers (Caribbean) Ltd. : 1989

Seller ID: 040787

ISBN-13: 9789766050979

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Blue cloth, lettered in gold foil. Very slightly rubbed corners and extremities, essentially as issued. Color illus. dust jacket shows light shelf wear, now in mylar. xvi,112 pp., illus. 48 full-color plates.
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The Ways of Wildfowl, Featuring the Distinguished Paintings and Etchings of Richard E. Bishop [INSCRIBED]

By: Bishop, Richard E.; Russ Williams (text); Thomas C. Jones (editor)

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Chicago and St. Paul, MN, J. G. Ferguson Publishing Co. for Brown & Bigelow : 1971

Seller ID: 055880

ISBN: B000LBR8OE

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

INSCRIBED. Full padded light blue leather, front cover pastedown illus., text block edged in gilt. (This first edition bound in leather, apparently limited to 3,000 copies, was issued without a dust jacket.) Leather is a bit discolored/soiled in a few areas, otherwise essentially as issued. Inscribed on lower half-title by editor Tom Jones, generic "with warm regards / and very best wishes," with an additional signature (George P--s?), of unknown affiliation with this publication. 256 pp., illus. w/ 64 color plates, additional b&w illus.
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A Geographical and Comparative List of the Birds of Europe and North America

By: Bonaparte, Charles Lucian, Prince of Musignano

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London, John Van Voorst : 1838

Seller ID: 045726

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dark green cloth, lettered in gilt. Ex-library copy from non-circulating institutional library, spine and joints clear-coated, with handwritten call label on lower spine, two book plates mounted on front fixed endpaper. vii,68,[4] pp. Cloth split and neatly mended along upper front joint. Front flyleaf slightly chipped along fore-edge and with minor loss to top corner.
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A Geographical and Comparative List of the Birds of Europe and North America

By: Bonaparte, Charles Lucian, Prince of Musignano

Price: $150.00

Publisher: London, John Van Voorst : 1838

Seller ID: 045893

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dark green cloth, lettered in gilt. Horizontal crease/bend to upper front board, with mended separation of cloth along upper front joint, otherwise modest shelf wear. Toned endpapers, clean interior. vii,68,[4] pp. Scarce.
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Traveling with the Birds: A Book on Bird Migration

By: Boulton, Rudyerd

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Chicago and New York, M. A. Donohue & Co. : 1933

Seller ID: 059385

ISBN: B000852TU6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Brown 1/4 cloth, color illus. boards. All four corners rubbed with exposure, edges and extremities with minor rubbing. Firm binding, clean interior beyond short gift inscription inked on lower front flyleaf (dated 1941). 64 pp., illus. w/ full-page color plates.
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Pennsylvania German Folk Tales, Legends, Once-Upon-A-Time Stories, Maxims, and Sayings, Spoken in the dialect popularly known as Pennsylvania Dutch [Pennsylvania German Society Vol. L (50) (1944)]

By: Brendle, Rev. Thomas R., and William S. Troxell

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Norristown, PA, Pennsylvania German Society : 1944

Seller ID: 056977

ISBN: B00411K5YK

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

PGS Vol. L (50). Blue stiff paper wraps, lettered in dark blue, rough-cut text block edges. Very minor handling wear. Firm, square binding shows two stress creases original to issue. xxiv,238 pp. Uncut (signatures unopened along top edges).
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Hawk Mountain: A Conservation Success Story

By: Brett, James J., and Keith L. Bildstein; Pete Dunne (fwd.)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Kempton, PA, Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association : 2014

Seller ID: 060988

ISBN: B071RJ9ZRM

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Hardcover, color illus. boards, square format. New/as issued. xxiv,192 pp.
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Category: Birds/Ornithology