Search Results: Titles starting with O from Isabelline Books

4to. Pp. 240. A fine copy in a very good dust wrapper of this major work. With many colour illustrations and maps.

4to. Cloth. Pp. 1245. 2 volumes. A fine set. With 16 colour plates by Francis Lee Jaques, 72 plates of black & white photographs and maps. First published in 1936 by the American Museum of Natural History in an edition of 1200. This is a reprint by Macmillan, a presentation copy signed by the author.

Roy. 8vo. Pp. 284. Fine in dust wrapper.

8vo. Cloth binding. Very good. 24 issues.

8vo. Pp. 48. Card covers. A fine copy.

Roy. 8vo. Pp. 239. Fine in very good dust wrapper. Illustrated with colour photographs by the author. As Tomkies writes; ""This story begins where my book Golden Eagle Years ended.

8vo. Cloth. Pp. 104. Very good. With one chromolithograph by H. Gronvold.

Roy. 8vo. Pp. 332. Brown cloth. Gilt title. With the bookplate of Martin Woodcock. A fine copy. With 28 text figures, one full-page black & white plate and a folding map. Reprinted from Vidensk. Medd. Dansk naturh. For. vol. 122

Roy. 8vo. Pp. 159. With 6 blaack & white plates. Wrappers. Very good.

Roy. 8vo. Pp. 201. Wrappers. Very good. With text figures and tables.

Fine in dust wrapper.

4to. Pp. 214. Wrappers. Presentation copy. Signatures on wrapper. Otherwise fine. With 3 plates (two in colour), text figures and maps.

Boards. Roy. 8vo. Pp. 123-190. This is a complete copy of Vol. IV - Part II of the Proceedings containing a Second Ornithological Report by Harvie Brown, October 1879 - September 1880, (p. 36) and other shorter papers on birds: The Birds of Buchan, Loch Lomond, Skuas, Barra Head and its Bird Life. The spine is worn, contents bright and clean. With two monochrome plates of shells.

Roy. 8vo. Pp. vii + 583. Original green cloth, gilt titles, gilt dec. top board. Some light discolouring & pencilled annotations. With 23 plates (uncoloured), 4 colour plates of eggs & 38 text. figs.The first edition.

Roy. 8vo. Pp. 400. Card covers. Very good. Special Publication No. 1. Ontario Field Ornithologists

8vo. Pp. lx + 592. Original cloth. Paper label on spine, a little rubbed.some minor fraying to spine edge, pages edges spotted. Bookplate of Hubert F. Lowe. This the second edition with a plan of study, and many new articles and original observations. With woodcuts in the text.

Roy. 8vo. Pp. 315. Hardback with dust wrapper. With a colour frontispiece, 4 pages colour plates, 2 folding maps, one in colour. An edition limited to 400 copies. New. Best known as the author of Bird Life in Devon (Cape, 1931), Walter Walmesley White (1877-1970) kept three ornithological journals during his lifetime. This one, which begins in1926 and ends in 1961, is the last of the three and the only one to have survived. A close observer and gifted writer, Walmesley White records sightings, nesting and feeding habits, and migratory patterns of local birds near his Devon home with grace and precision. His comments on bird song bear witness to his musical interests and abilities. Always in touch with others interested in ornithology, both local and distant, his journal captures something of the way of life in a rural English village in the first half of the twentieth century. This volume includes a memoir by Walmesley White's… Read More

Volume one. 8vo. Pp. xlii + Aberdevine to Lunda. Half morocco, gilt dec. spine, marbled boards and endpapers, a little scuffed and rubbed, corners bumped. Light foxing to some of the text pages. With a hand-coloured plate of a Cirl Bunting.

8vo. Pp. 250. Re-bound in brown cloth, gilt titles. With four sepia plates, lightly discoloured, one has a small tear which has been repaired.

A facsimile take from the copy belonging to the Birmingham City Libraries. Dark green cloth with gilt owl on the cover. A fine copy. This is still the best facsimile of this wonderful book.