Natural History Books and Works on Paper

NO RESERVE Africa.- Brown (Leslie H.) and others, editors. The Birds of Africa, vol. 1 to 5 only (of 8), mixed editions, illustrations, original c...

NO RESERVE Africa.- Clancey (P. A.) The Birds of Natal and Zululand, first edition, folding map, numerous plates in colour, plain plates and illus...

Africa.- Horsbrugh (Major Boyd) The Game-Birds and Water-Fowl of South Africa, 67 plates in colour, occasional scattered spots, [Nissen 450], cont...

Africa.- Horsbrugh (Major Boyd) The Game-Birds & Water-Fowl of South Africa, first edition, numerous plates in colour, ink ownership inscription f...

Africa.- Jackson (Sir Frederick John) Notes on the Game Birds of Kenya and Uganda, half-title, plates in colour, occasional spots, spine lightly s...

NO RESERVE Alaska & Canada.- Turner (L.M.) Contributions to the Natural History of Alaska, No. II, 11 chromolithographed plates of birds after Rob...

America.- Audubon (John James) The Birds of America, from Drawings made in the United States and their Territories, re-issued by J. W. Audubon, 50...

America.- Cassin (John) Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America, first edition in book form, 50 hand-...

America.- Dawson (William Leon) Birds of California, 4 vol., one of a limited edition of deluxe format copies signed by the author on front endpap...

America.- De Kay (James E.) Zoology of New-York, or the New-York Fauna...Part II. Birds, engraved general title, 141 hand-coloured lithographed pl...

Emory (William H.) Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, vol. 2 only, parts 1-3 in 3 vol., 270 lithograph plates only (of 271),...

America.- Gentry (Thomas G.) Nests and Eggs of Birds of the United States, half-title, portrait frontispiece, chromolithographed title and 54 plat...

America.- Jasper (Theodore) The Birds of North America, 119 chromolithograph plates, occasional foxing, affecting some plates, contemporary half m...

America.- Nehrling (Henry) Our Native Birds of Song and Beauty, 2 vol., numerous chromolithographed plates, occasional cracking at gutter with one...

New York.- Fourth Annual Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York, numerous plates, of which several in...

America.- Oberholser (Harry C.) The Bird Life of Texas, 2 vol., colour plates after Louis Agassiz Fuertes, original cloth, very lightly rubbed, sl...

NO RESERVE America.- Warren (B. H.) Report on the Birds of Pennsylvania, first edition, 50 plates, all but the first in colour, occasional very li...

Wilson (Alexander) American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States, 9 vol., first edition, subscriber's list, 76 h...

Wilson (Alexander) and Charles L. Bonaparte, American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States, 3 vol., with notes b...

Meinertzhagen (Colonel R.) Birds of Arabia, first edition, plates in colour, folding maps in colour within pocket at rear, illustrations throughou...

NO RESERVE Bucknill (Sir John) and F. N. Chasen, The Birds of Singapore Island, first edition, plates in colour, small amount of worming to title ...

Daivd (Armand) and E. Oustalet, Les Oiseaux de la Chine, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 124 engraved plates with fine hand-colouring, some he...

Delacour (J.) and P. Jabouille, Les Oiseaux de l'Indochine Francaise, 4 vol., first edition, one plain and 66 coloured plates after Gronvold, some...

Robinson (Herbert C.) The Birds of the Malay Peninsula, 5 vol., first edition, plates by H.Gronvold, all but one or two colour, maps, 3 vol. with ...

Facsimile.- Gould (John) The Birds of Australia, vol. 2 only (of 7), reproduction in facsimile, 104 full-page colour plate illustrations, original...

Bannerman (David Armitage) The Birds of the British Isles, 12 vol., first edition, colour plates by George E. Lodge, captioned tissue-guards, vol....

Blaauw (Frans Ernst) A Monograph of the Cranes, first edition, one of 170 copies but this copy without limitation label to front pastedown, 22 tip...

Bonaparte (Charles L.) and H. Schlegel, Monographie des Loxiens, 54 hand-coloured lithographed plates by M. Bädeker, several with slips pasted ove...

Booth (Edward Thomas) Rough Notes on the Birds Observed during Twenty-five years' Shooting and Collecting in the British Islands, 3 vol., first ed...

Britain.- Butler (Arthur G.) Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, 2 vol., numerous plates in colour after H. Gronvold and F.W. Frohawk, bookplates,...

Britain.- Donovan (Edward) The Natural History of British Birds, 5 vol. in 3, 124 engraved plates with fine hand-colouring, vol. 4-5 with half-tit...

Gould (John) The Birds of Great Britain, vol. 3 only (of 5), first edition, 76 hand-coloured lithograph plates, occasional light off-setting, some...

Lilford (Lord) Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands, 7 vol., first edition, portrait photogravure frontispiece, vol. 1 list of sub...

Millais (John Guille) The Natural History of British Surface-feeding Ducks, number 40 of 600 large paper copies, additional vignette title, 6 phot...

Millais (John Guille) The Natural History of British Game Birds, first edition, one of 550 copies, 18 colour plates after Millais and Archibald Th...

Britain.- Millais (John Guille) British Diving Ducks, 2 vol., one of 450 copies, half-titles, 74 colour, collotype or photogravure plates, tissue-...

Morris (Rev. Francis Orpen) A History of British Birds, 6 vol., fourth edition, half-titles, 394 hand-coloured lithograph plates, original pictori...

Morris (Beverley R.) British Game Birds and Wildfowl, 2 vol., fifth edition, half-titles, 60 double-page hand-coloured lithograph plates, bookplat...

Thorburn (Archibald) British Birds, 4 vol., fourth edition, colour plates, book labels, original red cloth, gilt, a few small marks to covers, ext...

Buffon (G.L.M.L., Comte de) Natural History of Birds, Fish, Insects and Reptiles, 6 vol., mixed editions, numerous engraved hand-coloured plates, ...

Buffon (G.L.M.L., Comte de) Oeuvres Completes de Buffon, 13 vol., edited by M. Flourens, plate vol. with 163 hand-coloured lithograph plates (incl...

Butler (Arthur G.) Foreign Finches in Captivity, first edition, 60 hand-coloured lithographed plates after F.W. Frohawk, heightened with gum arabi...

Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum, 16 vol., mixed vol., numerous hand-coloured lithographed and chromolithographed plates after drawing...

Cage Birds.- Butler (Arthur G.) Foreign Finches in Captivity, second edition, 60 colour lithographed plates, tissue guards, bookplate of John Hopk...

Cory (Charles B.) Birds of the Bahama Islands, first edition, Boston, by the Author, 8 hand-coloured lithograph plates, the first (frontispiece) w...

Chenu (Jean Charles) Ornithologie de Chasseur, first edition, 45 hand-coloured lithograph plates only (of 50), 2 plates loose and another nearly s...

Cooper (William) and Joseph M. Forshaw. The Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds, first American edition, colour plates, illustrations, original clot...

Cooper (William) and Joseph M. Forshaw, Kingfishers and Related Birds, 6 vol., first edition, an edition limited to 1000 copies signed by Cooper a...

Cooper (William T.) and Joseph M. Forshaw, Turacos. A Portfolio of all Species, number 43 of 290 copies signed by both Cooper and Forshaw, 23 plat...

Cuvier (Georges C.L., Baron) The Animal Kingdom, 3 vol. only, vol. 6, 7 & 8, The Class Aves, numerous engraved plates, most hand-coloured, bookpla...

del Hoyo (Josep) Handbook of the Birds of the World, 16 vol., colour illustrations throughout, original cloth, dust-jackets, vol. 8 with two very ...

Dresser (Henry Eeles) Monograph of the Meropidae, or Family of Bee-eaters, first edition, 34 hand-coloured lithographed plates by J.G. Keulemans, ...

Shelley (Capt. G.E.) A Handbook to the Birds of Egypt, first edition, 14 lithographed plates with fine hand-colouring, some heightened with gum ar...

Dresser (Henry Eeles) A History of the Birds in Europe, including all the species inhabiting the Western Palaearctic Region, 9 vol. (including Sup...

Naumann (Johann Andreas) Naturgeschichte der Vogel Mitteleuropas, 12 vol., 439 chromolithograph plates, 10 plain plates, some spotting and foxing ...

Game Birds.- Pollard (Hugh B. C.) and Phyllis Barclay-Smith. British & American Game-Birds, one of 125 copies on hand-made paper and with an initi...

Hummingbirds.- Martin (W. C. L.) A General History of Humming-birds, or the Trochildae, first edition, 16 hand-coloured engraved plates, bookplate...

India.- Baker (E.C. Stuart) Indian Pigeons and Doves, first edition, frontispiece and 26 colour plates after Grönvold and Lodge, title lightly bro...

Murray (James A. H.) The Avifauna of British India and its Dependencies, 2 vol., first edition, numerous plates, both lithographed and wood-engrav...

Jardine (Sir William) The Naturalist's Library, 16 mixed vol., numerous hand-coloured plates, variously bound in contemporary calf, half morocco a...