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A History of British Birds; Volume 1
by Thomas Bewick
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A History of British Birds, volume 2 : Water Birds.
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Newcastle upon Tyne : Frank Graham, 1972. Facsimile of the sixth edition of 1826, volume 2 only (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), xxii, 432pp. Text illustrations throughout. Original blue cloth, dustwrapper. Minor spotting to the top edge of the text block, else the book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition (dustwrapper price-clipped).
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A History of British Birds, Vol. II Containing the History and Description of Water Birds
by Thomas Bewick
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The Folio Society, 1910. Hardcover. Good. 1910. No edition remarks. 431 pages. No dust jacket. Quarter bound blue leather with marbled paper covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. No slipcase. Pages are bright and clear with no visible markings. Binding throughout remains firm. Boards have light edge wear with minor corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine, with occasional markings overall.
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A History of British Birds : Vol. I containing the History and Description of Land Birds :
by Thomas Bewick; introduced by Jenny Uglow
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The Folio Society, 2010. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Volume 1 of 2-volume set; 382 p., clean and unmarked anywhere on strong unaged paper; slight rubbing in front gutter--no breaks; beautiful b&w ill., one assumed from the 1826 edtion o which the Folio edition is based; clean blue and white marbled boards with blue leather spine with raised bands; gilt lettering is still bright; despite absence of slip case edge wear is minimal.
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A History of British Birds; Volume 1
by Thomas Bewick
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The Peacock from Thomas Bewick's A History of British Birds Volume 1: Land Birds.
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Yale University: R. Hunter Middleton, 1976. "This impression from the original engraved boxwood block, now in the collection of the Newberry Library in Chicago, has been taken by R. Hunter Middleton as a keepsake for guests at the Carl Purington Rollins Lectures on the Typographic Tradition, Yale University, April 1976. Printed on a sheet measuring about 8 x 10 inches, in a gray paper portfolio with a printed label on the front. Fine condition. Middleton was a type designer and art director; he also was a collector of Bewick, and gave a number of original Bewick engraved blocks to the Newberry Library. Number of copies is unknown.
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A History of British Birds Vol. I Containing the History and Description of Land Birds [with] Vol II. Water Birds.
by Bewick, Thomas.
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Newcastle upon Tyne; Frank Graham, 1971., 1971. Hard Cover. Facsimile of the 1826 Sixth Edition, limited to 950 copies. Octavo, pp. [4], iii, [1], xliv, 382; [4], iii, [1], xxii, 432. Illustrated throughout with Bewick's woodcut illustrations of the birds, and head- and tail-pieces. Publishers' faux leather in dark green and royal blue respectively, with silver and gilt titles and vignettes to spines and wood-grain and marbled effect endpapers, in price-clipped pictorial dust-jackets. Boards bruised to lower edge and top edges a little dusty (both volumes) otherwise clean bright copies; no annotation or inscriptions. Jackets lightly toned, and creased top edge. A Very Good set. The forerunner of all modern field guides, Bewick's 'History of British Birds' changed the public's perception of the natural world; it is a landmark in natural history illustration and is one of the most important illustrated books ever printed. This edition is a facsimile of the last edition seen through the press by…
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A History of British Birds, Volume 2: Water Birds
by Bewick, Thomas
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Menston: The Scolar Press, 1972. Facsimile of the 6th edition. Pages clean and bright, small inscription on half-title page, boards and binding tidy, minimal shelf wear to dust jacket.. Facsimile. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
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A History of British Birds. Volume II. Water Birds. 1832
by Bewick, Thomas
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne: R E Bewick; Longman & Co. G: in good condition. Ex-lib. Library rebind with new eps. 1832. First edition thus. Green hardback cloth cover. 230mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). xxii, 424pp. Hundreds of fine b/w etchings. .
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A History Of British Birds Volume I, Containing The History & Description Of Land Birds. Volume II, Containing The History & Description Of Water Birds.
by Bewick, Thomas (Jenny Uglow intro)
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Folio Society, London 2010 (reprinting the 1826 edition, with minor emendations). 23.0 x 15.0cms, c 760pp, b/w illusts, 2 fine hardback volumes with decorated boards in fine plain slipcase. Volume I covers: birds of prey (falcons, owls, shrikes); birds of the pie kind (prieles, woodpeckers; grosbeaks; buntings; finches; flycathers; larks;warblers; titmouses; swallows; doves; gallinaceous; grouses; bustards; plowers) Volume II covers: herons; spoonbills; ibises; curlews; snipes; godwits; sandpipers; oyster-catchers; avosets; gallinules; coots; phalaropes; grebes; guillemots; divers; terns; predatory gulls; petrels; merguses, anases; pelicans; auks.
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A History of British Birds Vol 1: Land Birds
by Bewick, Thomas
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Newcastle Upon Tyne: Frank Graham, 1971. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Boards tidy. Light spotting to reading edge. Light staining to top edge. Dust jacket has some rubbing, sunning to back and staining to bottom of rear spine. Spine has light fading. Some creasing and light fraying to top edge of jacket.. Hard. Very Good/Good. 8vo.
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A History of British Birds Vol. I. Containing the History and Description of Land Birds
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Newcastle/London: R.E. Bewick and Longman & Co., 1847 Later printing. 8vo; pp. xxxix, xxxvi, 374, [1]; illustrated from wood engravings by Bewick. Newspaper clipping to front endpaper; light wear to extremities; contents clean and tight; a good copy or better in original gilt-stamped green cloth. Originally published in 1797. This edition, Volume One only, "...contains about 20 additional vignettes, not before published, which were designed and engraved by Bewick, being part of a series intended by him as embellishments for a History of British Fishes, on which he was engaged at the time of his death.".
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A History of British Birds [2 volume set]
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London: Folio Society, 2010. First Folio Society Printing. Hardcover. Fine. Two volume set in slipcase. 23 x 14 cm. Octavo. 382pp, 431pp. Bound into 1/4 teal leather with marble covers. Divided into two volumes "Land Birds" and "Water Birds". Text based on that of the 1826 edition.
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A History of British Birds. Volume I: Containing the History and Description of Land Birds. and Volume II: Containing the History and Description of Water Birds. Both unbound in solander boxes
by Bewick, Thomas
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Newcastle, England: Bewick/Longman & Co, 1847. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo (9"x5.5"). 406pp. & 374pp. +appendices. Both volumes unbound in black cloth-covered solander boxes & slipcovers with giltstamped titles to spines. Pages are single leaves (not signatures), stabbed as if for sewing along the left edge. Volume I is missing its title page: first leaf is an advertisement, followed by the preface & introduction. B&W engraved cuts throughout both volumes.
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A History of British Birds, the Figures Engraved on Wood by T Bewick Volume II Containing the History and Description of Water Birds Plus a Supplement to the History of British Water Birds
by Bewick, Thomas
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Newcastle: Edward Walker. Very Good. 1821. Hardcover. 360pp + 44pp supplement, illustrated throughout marbled endpapers, bound in full calf, gilt lining to covers gilt lettering to spine; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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A history of British birds Volume II Containing the history and description of water birds./ the figures engraved on wood by T. Bewick
by Bewick, Thomas (1753-1828)
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Newcastle: Printed by Edward Walker for T. Bewick: sold by him, and Longman and Co. London , 1816. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor copy in half leather over marble boards. Spine bands worn with some loss. Partial spine band loosely inserted. Scattered foxing throughout. Physical description: 361 pages. Subjects: Birds Great Britain. Birds history. Ornithology.
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A History of British Birds. 2 Volumes (Set). Volume I: Containing the History and Description of Land Birds. Volume II: Containing the History and Description of Water Birds
by BEWICK, Thomas
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Charles Henry Cook, 1832. ~Bookplate to Volume I. Endpapers uncracked at gutters. Half black polished calf, re-backed in matching calf with original back-strips laid down. 2 original gilt labels per Volume. Fine floral decorated green cloth to boards. General moderate wear. Eleven illustrations annotated in an early nineteenth-century, very disapproving, possibly Evangelical hand, e.g 'cruel', 'profane', 'the dreadful sin of suicide', 'drunkenness is a sin'.~Robust packaging. Overseas tracking available on request. . Hardcover. Good+. xl, 386 + xxii, 424pp. Many illus. Binding sound.
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A History of British Birds. (Parts I-II in one volume). [With]: A General History of Quadrupeds.
by BEWICK, Thomas.
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Newcastle:: Printed by Edward Walker, for T. Bewick,, 1809-1811.. Quadrupeds: The Sixth edition.. 19th c. half morocco and marbled sides and edges.. Age-toning to text throughout; both volumes tight and sound with some light rubbing to the bindings.. 8vo,. Illustrated with figures engraved on wood by Thomas Bewick. .
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A HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS: VOLUME 2, PLUS SUPPLEMENT
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NEWCASTLE, WALKER, 1805. VOL. 2 IS THE HISTORY OF WATER BIRDS. REBOUND IN FULL LEATHER, MARBLED ENDPAPERS, RAISED BANDS, AEG, GILT TITLE. pp (xxii), 400. SOME RUBBING TO THE BOARDS EDGES. A VERY NICE, CLEAN COPY. NUMEROUS WOODCUTS BY BEWICK.
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A HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS THE FIGURES ENGRAVED ON WOOD BY T. BEWICK. VOL. 1 CONTAINING THE HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF LAND BIRDS
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Newcastle: Sol. Hodgson, for Belby & Bewick. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1797. First Edition. Hardcover. Beautifully rebound in tan half calf, maroon Morocco label with gilt titles, marbled boards, 117 figures of birds of which 44 have been hand colored, a lovely clean, tight copy. Volume one of a two volume set. ; 8" x 6.5"; 355 pages .
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