Coloured Figures of the Eggs of British Birds by Henry Seebohm - 1896

Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1992. Jacket has crinkling to rear and front foldover plus previous owners details in pen to rear of front foldover. 318 pages with colour illustrations and distribution maps. Part of The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Covers 54 species of parrots and 27 species of pigeons. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Published Under The Auspices Of The Natural Science Association Of America, 1903. Hardcover. Very Good. New York, Published Under The Auspices Of The Natural Science Association Of America, 1903. Revised Edition. Folio (15.5 x 12.5x x2 inches). pp. 2 p.l., 16, 182, [10]. title in red & black. text in double columns. engraved frontis. portrait & 119 chromo-lithographed plates after drawings by Theodore Jasper. In very good condition, no foxing of plates, minor shelf wear to very solid binging. Ships from Hawaii. A profusely illustrated 1903 publication of The Birds of North America by Jacob H Studer This book was published in 1903 by The Natural Science Association of America It is cloth bound on board and gilt lettering to the front and spine.

London: Printed for the Author, 1737. First edition. 1737 THE TURACO, FROM THE FIRST BIRD BOOK TO INCLUDE COLOR PLATES HANDCOLORED BY THE AUTHOR AND HIS DAUGHTER. 9x11 1/4 inches handcolored engraving from Eleazar Albin's Natural History of Birds. Bright, bold colors, heavy paper, very good. ELEAZAR ALBIN (1690 – 1742) was an English naturalist and watercolorist illustrator who wrote and illustrated a number of books including A Natural History of English Insects (1720), A Natural History of Birds (1731–38) and The Natural History of Spiders and other Curious Insects (1736). Nothing is known of Albin's early life, though he may have been German-born; he claimed to have been in Jamaica in 1701. In 1708 he is known to have been married and living in Piccadilly, London. Albin taught watercolor painting before being instructed in natural history by silk weaver and naturalist Joseph Dandridge. A Natural History of Birds has colored engravings by Albin and his daughter Elizabeth Albin. In that book… Read More

London: Printed for the Author, 1737. First edition. 1737 THE BLACK AND WHITE PHEASANT, FROM THE FIRST BIRD BOOK TO INCLUDE COLOR PLATES HANDCOLORED BY THE AUTHOR AND HIS DAUGHTER. 9x11 1/4 inches handcolored engraving from Eleazar Albin's Natural History of Birds. Bright, bold colors, small crease to lower right corner not affecting image; heavy paper, very good. ELEAZAR ALBIN (1690 – 1742) was an English naturalist and watercolorist illustrator who wrote and illustrated a number of books including A Natural History of English Insects (1720), A Natural History of Birds (1731–38) and The Natural History of Spiders and other Curious Insects (1736). Nothing is known of Albin's early life, though he may have been German-born; he claimed to have been in Jamaica in 1701. In 1708 he is known to have been married and living in Piccadilly, London. Albin taught watercolor painting before being instructed in natural history by silk weaver and naturalist Joseph Dandridge. A Natural History of Birds has… Read More

Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press [0-89672-204-X] 1989. (Hardcover) 560pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Tables, distribution maps, charts, photographs, bibliographies. The dust jacket is lightly edgeworn and lightly faded on the spine. (Natural History, Habitat Management, Natural History, Waterfowl).

Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1871. Red cloth with silver decoration and lettering. 212 pp. Small worn-through spots to the spine ends and corners. The spine is slanted and slightly sunned. The endpapers are toned. Otherwise fine in a tight binding with hinges intact.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Publication Date: 1936. Beautiful copy of the Artist's Game Bag. Amazing black and white illustrations with a handful of full color full page illustrations. Minor bumping on corners. Very minor wear. Else Fine. No DJ. Pages are clean and bright. Binding is tight. This is a limited print edition. This particular copy is number 596 out of 1,225. Additional postage applies to mail with USPS priority and insurance.

London: Printed for the Author, 1736. First edition. 1736 MUSCOVY DRAKE, ADAPTED TO TROPICAL AND COLD CLIMATES, FROM THE FIRST BIRD BOOK TO INCLUDE COLOR PLATES HANDCOLORED BY THE AUTHOR AND HIS DAUGHTER. 9x11 1/4 inches handcolored engraving from Eleazar Albin's Natural History of Birds. Bright, bold colors, heavy paper, very good. ELEAZAR ALBIN (1690 – 1742) was an English naturalist and watercolorist illustrator who wrote and illustrated a number of books including A Natural History of English Insects (1720), A Natural History of Birds (1731–38) and The Natural History of Spiders and other Curious Insects (1736). Nothing is known of Albin's early life, though he may have been German-born; he claimed to have been in Jamaica in 1701. In 1708 he is known to have been married and living in Piccadilly, London. Albin taught watercolor painting before being instructed in natural history by silk weaver and naturalist Joseph Dandridge. A Natural History of Birds has colored engravings by Albin and his… Read More

BEWICK, THOMAS. A GENERAL HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. NEWCASTLE, 1807 8vo, wood-engravings, contemporary tree calf, spine gilt, neatly rebacked retaining original spine, slightly spottedEx Libris - NOVA VIRERE FRONDE - Harry Lupton, surgeon (d. 1861) author of LUPTON, Mr. [Harry]. The History of Thame and Its Hamlets; Including the Abbey of Thame, Prebend, Free School, etc. etc. Printed and Published by J. E. and F. Bradford. Thame. [1860]The Figures Engraved in Wood by T. Bewick. Newcastle upon Tyne:T. Bewick and S.Hodgson,1807. Fifth edition (pp. x, 525, advert). Octavo (20 cm) in full mottled leather, gilt decoration, title in compartment on spine. In the addenda, Bewick includes an early mention of two Australian species-- the figures and descriptions of two very rare animals, sent from New South Wales, by James Hunter, Esq. Governor of that settlement . The two animals are the Wombach (sic) and an as yet unnamed amphibious animal with a bill similar to that of a duck. Thomas Bewick (1753- 1828), a… Read More

Thomas Bewick / Iain Bain - The Watercolours and Drawings of Thomas Bewick and His Workshop Apprentices - 1989Two volumes, oblong quarto (23 x 25 cm), pp. Volume 1: 233, Volume 2: 230. Reprint edition. Green cloth boards with gilt titling. Blue endpapers. Introduction and editorial notes by Iain Bain. Exhaustively illustrated with hundreds of sketches and reproductions of engravings originally created for General History of Quadrupeds, History of British Birds, Fables of Aesop and Others, History of British Fishes as well as miscellaneous book illustrations and jobbing engravings. Contains three appendices: "Apprentices and their Workshop Periods," "The Dispersal of Bewick's Workshop Drawings" and "The Present-day Collections" plus bibliography and index.A re-issue of this essential work for anyone engaged in a serious study of Thomas Bewick (1753-1828), the father of English wood engraving and one of the most important illustrators of his day. All the drawings and watercolors have been reproduced in… Read More