A History of the Birds of Hertfordshire by Sage, Bryan L - 1959

London: Barrie & Rockliff, 1959. First. . Hardcover. Good+/Good. 12mo. Light wear to extrems. Light spotting to pegs and eps. Dw has wear and a couple of small tears to edges. Spotting.

Barrie And Rockliff, 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. This book is a detailed account of the status and distribution of every species recorded in Hertfordshire, and deals fully with the geographical considerations. The book is concerned with, the great man made changes, the special attention to birds of reservoirs, gravel pits and sewage farms.

Barrie & Rockliff , 1952. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, a tightly bound copy but with some foxing and thus good only, the price clipped dust jacket is well preserved, lightly shelf-soiled. This first printing has the frontispiece which was not bound into later printings. xvi + 245pp.

London: Barrie and Rockliff. VG : in very good condition with dust jacket. 1959. First Edition. Black/gilt hardback cloth cover. 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). 245pp. .

London England: Barrie and Rockliff, 1959. Hardback. A History of The Birds of Hertfordshire. Foxing to end inside covers and edge. Shelf wear to edge of D/J. Foxing to D/J. With a Foreword by Peter Scott. It is a detailed account of the status and distribution of every species recorded in hertfordshire, and deals fully with the geographical and geological considerations. The systematic list is preceded by sections covering museum collections, topography, migration, changes in the avifauna, analysis of the country list and nomenclature. Appendixes include: Birds Recorded in Hertfordshire Not on the British List, Wildfowl Count Statistics, A Breeding-Season Census of the Coot in Hertfordshire, and Selected 1958 Records. 245 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over… Read More

LONDON, BARRIE AND ROCKLIFF, 1959. FIRST EDITION, VERY GOOD COPY IN VERY GOOD DUSTWRAP. FOREWORD BY PETER SCOTT.

London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1959. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. 8vo. From the library of Eric Hosking, photographer. Forward by Peter Scott. pp. xvi, 245; frontispiece plate; b/w photographic plates. Dust jacket near fine, a little spotting an toning, not price-clipped, now protected in a removable archival sleeve. Hardback binding fine. Contents clean and tight, inscribed and signed "Bryan Sage for Eric Hosking, the best of bird photographers", otherwise unmarked. A near fine copy. [Eric Hosking, OBE, Hon FRPS, FBIPP (1909-1991) was widely acknowledged as one of the world's most eminent natural history photographers, "Perhaps the most famous bird photographer ever to have lived" (Gemma Padley). He was pioneering and developed new techniques, especially the use of flash photography and automatic shutter release technology, which enabled him to photograph birds at night and freeze birds in flight for the first time. Famously, when just 28 he… Read More