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LOT 2623
Books on Birds - 8 Titles
1932-1969 A.D.
7 3/4 x 4 7/8 - 11 1/4 x 8 7/8 in. (5 kg total, 19.5 x 12.5 - 28.6 x 22.4 cm).
Jean Delacour - Pheasant of the World - London, 1965, hardback with dustwrapper, 351 pp, 32 colour plates; Dorothy Yglesias - The Cry of a Bird - London, 1962, hardback with dustwrapper, 168 pp, monochrome plates; A.A. Voitkevich - The Feathers and Plumage of Birds - London, 1966, hardback with cloth covers, 335 pp, monochrom pates, line drawings; British Poultry standards - London, n.d., hardback with dustwrapper, 348 pp, monochrome plates; Gertrude Hess - The BIrd: Its Life and Structure - London, 1951, hardback with cloth covers, 244 pp, line drawings; Len Howard - Birds as Individuals - London, 1969 edition, hardback with dustwrapper, 223 pp, monochrome plates; J. Delamain - Why Birds Sing - London, 1933 reprint, hardback with cloth covers, 296 pp; E.F. Dalglish - How to See Birds - London, 1932 reprint, hardback with cloth covers, 101 pp, text figures. [8, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the library of an East Anglian gentleman, 1970s-early 2000s.
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Bird Book Collection - 5 Titles
1961-1993 A.D.Estimate: £20 - 30 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Oliver L. Austin - Birds of the World - Feltham 1983 edition, hardback with dustwrapper, 318 pp, colour; Andrew Branson - Illustrated Encyclopedia of Birds - Abingdon, 1993, hardback with dustwrapper, 240 pp, colour; Foreign Birds. Magazine of the Foreign Bird League, vol 27, no.4, July-August 1961, paper covers, 40 pp; Francesca Greenoak - All the Birds of the Air - London, 1979, hardback with dustwrapper, 325 pp, line drawings; G.T. Dodwell - canary Standards in Colour: An Exhibitor's Guide to the canary Fancy - Liss, 1986, hardback, 151 pp, 25 colour plates. 4.67 kg total, 21.5 x 14.5 - 30.5 x 23.5 cm
From the library of an East Anglian gentleman, 1970s-early 2000s. -
A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe - Multiple Signed Copy
1974 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
R. Peterson, G. Montfort, P.A.D. Hollom - London, 1974, hardback with dustwrapper, 344 pp, colour plates; signed by all three authors. 463 grams, 19 x 12 cm
Property of a Cornwall, UK, gentleman. -
John Gould's Hummingbirds
1990 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Secaucus, 1990, hardback with dustwrapper, 74 pp, 418 colour plates. 3.75 kg, 37 x 26 cm
From the library of an East Anglian gentleman, 1970s-early 2000s.
