The Homes of the Birds by M K M, Giacomelli

T.Nelson and Sons, 1886. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1886. No Edition Remarks. 243 pages. No dust jacket. Green illustrated cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Clean pages and illustrations with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil and ink stamp markings to front pastedown and free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Visible wear marks to boards.

New.

London, Edinburgh and New York: T. Nelson and Sons, 1887. Hardcover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. illustrated. School prize label inside. Firmly bound, decorated, blue cloth boards. Small scuffing on the spine. Strong browning on the end papers. No jacket.

New.

Hardback. New.

London: T. Nelson and Sons. Good with no dust jacket. 1884. Hardcover. Foxing to endpapers. Extensive pencil scribbles on rear free endpaepr. Boards rubbed and worn. ; 94 pages + [2] pages advertisements. Frontispiece and several full page illustrations. Ornithology. 14 separate chapters on individual species, including The Willow-Warbler; The Flycatcher; The Hedge-Sparrow; The Magpie; The Rook; The Wood-Pigeon; The Water-Ousel. "It is not easy to tempt them to take up their abode in your trees, but the rookery once there, it will never depart: you saw it in your childhood, you will see it still in your old age." - from the chapter on the rook. ; 16mo .

London: T. Nelson and Sons , 1875. First edition. Cloth. Good. 6" by 4". None stated. The very scarce first edition of this charming ornithological work on the habitats of birds, with coloured illustrations. The very scarce first edition of this uncommon work. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth. Illustrated with headpieces, illuminated letters, a full colour frontispiece and two coloured plate. This charming work provides a study on the homes and habitats of birds such as the 'greenfinch', 'magpie' and the 'rook'. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth. Externally very smart with rubbing to the extremities and joints, bumping to the extremities of the boards, minimal cockling to the boards and sight fading to the spine. Internally generally firmly bound with frontispiece tender and one plate disbound but present. Pages lightly age toned and generally clean with white marks to the verso of the frontispiece and the odd minor handling mark. Good