Search Results: Birds from Berthoff Books

Studio Editions, 1991. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 128 pages, with index and introduction. Classic Natural History Prints series. Sixty color plates display reproductions of drawings of raptors by the 19th-century artist Joseph Wolf, text by S. Peter Dance. 4to (10-1/4" x 14-1/4"), dark blue cloth with silver gilt lettering on spine, black end papers, printed on heavy stock, fairly heavy foxing to title page and index, but not to plates and text, text block appears slightly wavy at top, pages unmarked. DJ has shelf wear, 1" and 2" tears to top edge of front panel repaired from inside. Heavy book, may incur shipping surcharge.

Williams and Norgate, Ltd., 1927. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 139 pages. Discussion of birds by Max Nicholson, an early environmentalist and co-founder of the World Wildlife Fund. Color frontispiece - painting of birds fighting over a fish in mid-air. Six appendices: bird ecology; data on nest and nestling losses; other data; data on speed and altitude of flight; bibliographical notes; scientific names of birds. 12mo (5" x 7-1/2"), green cloth with black lettering on spine, faded gray topstain, slightly cocked, wear at crown/heel/corners, boards lightly soiled, foxing to edges and some spots on pages, brown stains to end papers, UK bookstore sticker on rear pastedown. Underscoring or margin brackets observed on approximately five pages.