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BookNumber Author Title Illustrator Publisher Price BookCondition Size JacketCondition Binding PublishPlace PublishYear Edition Inscription Notes
4400004 CHAPMAN, Abel   and   BUCK, Walter J Unexplored Spain Joseph Crawhall, E Caldwell and Abel Chapman Edward Arnold 215 Good/Very Good 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall" No Jacket Decorative Cloth London 1910 First Edition   pp  xvi  + 416 + ii + 22.  Over 200 b & w illustrations. A survey of wild-life. Internally in near fine condition subject to moderate browning to endpapers.Binding sound subject to a little cracking between inside covers and endpapers.Cover quite bright with some markings and a little sunning to the spine.Corners a little bumped and slight wear to extremities of spine.
4400006 DIXON, Charles The Game Birds and Wild Fowl of the British Islands Charles Whymper Pawson & Brailsford 215 Very Good 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall" No Jacket Decorative Cloth Sheffield 1900 Second   pp  xxviii + 476; 41 coloured plates. Internally in near fine condition ( including all the plates) subject to slight browning and a little rubbing to the charcoal endpapers.Binding sound. Cover bright with slight scuffing and markings and a little wear to extremities.
4400007 MEINERTZHAGEN, Colonel R. Birds of Arabia George Lodge, D.M.Reid-Henry and Miss Talbot Lodge Oliver and Boyd 215 Very Good/Near Fine 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall" No Jacket Buckram Edinburgh and London 1954 First Edition   pp  xiii + 624. Nineteen colour plates, nine b & w photographic plates , many b & w text figures and maps, folded colour map of Arabia in pocket in back inside cover.Internally in fine condition subject to a little browning to endpapers and an owners note (crossed out) on fep. Binding firm.Cover very good subject to slight fading of the spine which has a slight indentation.
4400002 MICHAELA, Denis Leopard in my Lap   W H Allen 25 Fine 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall" Very Good Cloth London 1955 First Edition Signed by Author Inscribed on fep  To Mrs Nau  Michaela Denis"  Owners name and address on inside front cover. D/j (protected
4400008 NELSON, Thomas H. The Birds of Yorkshire   A. Brown & Sons 95 Very Good 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall" No Jacket Buckram London 1907     Two Volumes  pp  xlv + 1-374; xii + 375-843. Coloured frontispieces to each volume and many b & w photographic illustrations.Internally in near fine condition subject to slight browning and occasional spotting.Firm bindings.Covers quite bright subject to slight markings and a little wear to extremities.
4400005 Prince TAKA-TSUKASA The Birds of Nippon  Volume 1 Part 1   H.F. & G.Witherby / Yokendo 45 Near Fine 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall" No Jacket Soft Cover London / Tokyo 1932     pp  iv + 70. Two folding maps ( plates 1 and 111), four full page coloured illustrations            ( plates 1V,V,V1 and V11),  and four tipped-in spepia photographs.This appears to be a shortened version extract ; the copy of this title in the British Library is longer, has more illustrations and  plate 11 ( which is a further map);  there is no evidence of any plate having been removed from this copy. Internally in fine condition subject to very slight browning, the plates are in immaculate condition. Pages uncut.The cover is bright with very slight wear to edges.
4400000 WHITE, Gilbert Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne P H Delamotte Macmillan and Co 45 Good/Very Good 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall" No Jacket Decorative Cloth London 1875     With notes by Frank Buckland, a chapter on antiquities by Lord Selborne and New Letters.Internally very fresh; owners label on fep. .Top page edges gilt.The front cover and spine are embossed in gilt;  extremities of spine have been repaired ; slight wear to rear cover.  Overall a bright attractive copy
4400003 WHITE, Gilbert The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton John Van Voorst 95 Very Good 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall" No Jacket Cloth London 1877     Two volumes, edited by Thomas Bell, rebound in olive-green cloth, spines slightly sunned with a little wear to extremities; a fresh, attractive set
4400001 WHITE, Gilbert The Works in Natural History, comprising The Natural History of Selborne, The Naturalist's Calender and Miscellaneous Observations J White 155 Good/Very Good 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall" No Jacket Full-Leather London 1802 2 nd Edition   Two volumes bound as one, includes A Calender and Observations by W Marwick. An attractive copy with occasional marking and foxing, a little wear to the cover.The folding plate between the volumes has been repaired.

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