1. Clement, Roland C.

The Living World of Audubon. The photographers of the Living World of Audubon include: Fred J. Alsop, A.W. Ambler, Ron Austing, Jen & Des Bartlett, D.R, Blankinship, Allan D. Cruickshank, Helen Cruickshank, Thase Daniel, Harry Engels, Kenneth W. Fink, John B. Flannery, David Mohrhardt, Robert E. Pelham, Leonard Lee Rue, Marty Stouffer, H.A. Thornhill, Joe Van Wormer. Designed by Albert Squillace.

First Edition. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1974. 23,5 x 31 cm. 272 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. [Ridge Press Books].

2. Pratt, Ambrose.

The Lore of the Lyrebird. With a foreword by the late Honourable A.A. Dunstan.

Eighth Edition. Melbourne, Robertson & Mullens, 1951. 14 x 22.5 cm. 79 pages with 20 illustrations. Frontispiece illustration: ‘James’ by F.Lewis. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed on front endpaper by preowner. Rare in the dustjacket !

3. Poole, Charles Henry (editor).

A Treasury of Bird Poems.

London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd. no year [c.1911]. 13.5 cm x 19.5 cm. XXVII, 511 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Gilt top edge and deckled fore and tail-edges. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some foxing to endpapers. Some untrimmed pages. Interior bright and clean. Binding of this rare volume good and firm.

4. Peterson, Roger Tory.

Roger Tory Peterson: The Art and Photography of the World’s Foremost Birder. Edited by Roger Tory Peterson and Rudy Hoglund. Foreword by S.Dillon Ripley. Watching the Birds by William Zinsser. Commentaries by John Leo.

New York, Rizzoli, 1994. 4°. 204 pages with hundreds of photographs and illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear.

5. Van Someren, Vernon D.

A Bird Watcher In Kenya.

First Edition. Edinburgh/London, Oliver and Boyd, 1958. 16cm x 23cm. XVI, 270 pages. With 32 full-page illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Minor wear to dustjacket. Otherwise in very good condition. Private gift inscription and a nametag of the previous owner on the front free endpaper.

6. Kearton, R.

Birds’ Nests, Eggs, and Egg-Collecting. Illustrated with 16 coloured Plates [colour-chromolithographs of eggs in nests].

London / Paris / Melbourne, Cassell & Company, 1890. 13 cm x 19.5 cm. 71 pages plus several pages of historical advertising. Hardcover / Original, illustrated publisher’s cloth in protective collector’s mylar. Binding a little shaky but overall in very good condition with minor signs of external wear. Contains an inscription by Professor J.H. Pollen from the year 1892.

7. Ruggles-Brise, Cecily J.

Notes on Some Birds of Dar Es Salaam. With 29 Illustrations.

Norwich, Jarrold & Sons Limited, no year (c.1927). 13.5 cm x 19 cm. Frontispiece, XVII, 96 pages. 29 illustrations, including 2 monochrome photographs. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Gilt vignette on front board. Deckled edging. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some untrimmed pages at rear. Beautiful illustrations on front and rear endpaper.

8. Müller, Johannes.

Über zwei verschiedene Typen in dem Bau der erectilen männlichen Geschlechtsorgane bei den straußartigen Vögeln und über die Entwicklungsformen dieser Organe unter den Wirbelthieren überhaupt.

Erste Ausgabe. Berlin, Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1836-1838. Quarto (23.2 cm x 28.5 cm). 40 Seiten plus drei (3) grosse, lithographische Tafeln mit Illustrationen zum Text im Anhang (Seiten 137 – 177 des Jahrgangsbandes 1836). Moderne Broschur mit eingebundener Originalabhandlung. Sehr guter Zustand. Es handelt sich hier um die seltene, originale Erstausgabe der Publikation. Extrahiert aus dem Sammelband der Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Der originalen Publikation wurde eine Replika des Reihentitels vorgebunden. [Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Aus dem Jahre 1836].

9. Kittl, Ernst.

Mittheilungen der Section für Naturkunde des Österreichischen Touristen-Club.

8 volumes in 4. Wien, Steyrermühl, 1889 – 1895. 21.5 cm x 28.5 cm / 22.5 cm x 30 cm Circa 700 pages. Vol.I, 100 / Vol. II-III & V-VI, 352 pages / Vol.IV, 92 pages / Vol.VII-VIII, 172 pages. Numerous monochrome illustrations. Hardcover / Halbleder. With gilt lettering on spine. 2 green marbled boards and 2 dark coloured boards. Vol.IV and Vol.VII-VIII in very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Bindings firm and strong. Interiors clean and unmarked. Slight tanning throughout. Spines of Vol.I and Vol. II-III & V-VI in poor condition but overall still firm. Backstrip missing. Board corners rubbed. Interior clean. Tanning throughout.

10. Bouteille, Hippoloyte / M. de Labatie. / Victor Cassien.

Ornithologie du Dauphiné ou Description des Oiseaux observés dans les départements de l’Isère, de la Drôme, des Hautes-Alpes et des contrées voisines, par Hippolyte Bouteille, pharmacien. Avec la collaboration de M. de Labatie. Ouvrage contenant 300 sujets Dessinés d’après Nature, par M.V. Cassien.

Edition originale (First and only Edition). Two Volumes (complete set). Grenoble, Hippolyte Bouteille (Imprimerie Dr. F. Allier), 1843. Slim Quarto (18 cm x 26 cm). Volume I: 416 pages / Volume II: 358 pages. Including 72 lithographies by Pegeron et un grand tableau synoptique dépliant en fin d’ouvrage. Original Hardcover / Original red half leather / demi-maroquin with gilt lettering on spine. Besides some mild foxing in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. The plates complete and in wonderful condition. Titlepage of Volume II with minor lesion. The plates show 300 different kind of birds in remarkable detail, after Victor Cassien, french lithographer, illustrator, painter and photographer.