Search Results: Authors starting with B from Isabelline Books

Roy. 8vo. Pp. xiv + 434. Second Edition, revised and augmented. Half calf, marbled boards gilt title on red leather, gilt bands on spine. Prelims. slightly discoloured and and page edges sunned, otherwise a very nice tight copy with one black & white plate and 99 fine chromolithographic plates after Audubon.

Fine in black cloth, dust wrapper rubbed at top and edges.

8vo. Pp. 359. Wrappers, some highlighting and underlining. With maps and tables.

8vo. Pp. 111. As new in dust wrapper. With 16 plates, 14 in colour. Distribution maps.

Roy. 8vo. Pp. 106. Card covers. New. This first supplement corrects, expands and updates Ballance's standard reference book Birds in Counties (2000). The first comprehensive national bibliography of ornithological works since Mullens, Swann and Jourdain's geographical bibliography in 1920, Birds in Counties and it's first supplement comprise an essential reference work for libraries, collectors, and all those with an interest in the rich and complex development of local ornithology in the British Isles.

Roy. 8vo. Pp. 563. As new in dust wapper. With endpaper maps and maps of each county. Birds in Counties is the first comprehensive national bibliography of ornithological works since Mullens, Swann and Jourdain's geographical bibliography in 1920. Birds in Counties comprises an essential reference work for libraries, collectors, and all those with an interest in the rich and complex development of local ornithology in the British Isles.

NEW. 8vo. Pp. xiii + 372. With 40 colour plates and two maps. With text illustrations by Brian Slade and Tom Raven. This new Somerset avifauna is the first since 1988. Written in clear engaging language, it covers the birds of the post-1974 County from the earliest times up to the end of 2004, setting the most recent information on species, habitats, breeding and migration in a rich and revealing historical context. The text includes drawings of characteristic species in two contrasting styles. There is a section on the prehistoric avifauna of the Mendips and the Lake Villages. A separate section of forty colour photographs illustrates the diversity of habitats. In addition to lists of important observers and of organisations supporting conservation, research and recording within the County, the book includes a gazetteer, a large bibliography, a plan of the new Avalon Marshes… Read More

4to. Pp. 458. Fine in slightly worn dust wrapper. With 20 colour plates. A History of the Birds of the Cape Verde Islands.

Volume 2 only. 8vo. Pp. xiii + 1526. Original cloth. Fine.

Cr. 4to. Pp. 230. Fine in wrapper. Illustrated by Donald Watson. With 12 colour plates, numerous black & white drawings and a bibliography. The last book of this well-known ornithologist, published posthumously, his widow completing the work.

8vo. Pp. xiv + 237. Near fine in slightly rubbed dust wrapper. With 27 colour plates by Chloe Talbot Kelly and David Reid Henry, woodcuts by C.F. Tunnicliffe, George Lodge and others. Folding map.

Pp. 399. Very good copy without dust wrapper.

4to. Fine in dust wrapper, top of spine a little chipped, corners rubbed. Pp. lxix + 384. With 14 colour plates by D. M. Reid-Henry and 2 by Roland Green. Numerous drawings by G.E. Lodge. A folding map in colour.

Cr. 4to. Pp. 230. Fine in wrapper. Illustrated by Donald Watson. With 12 colour plates, numerous black & white drawings and a bibliography. The last book of this well-known ornithologist, published posthumously, his widow completing the work.

4to. Very good in dust wrapper. Bookplate. A History of the Birds of the Azores. With 31 Wood Engravings by C.F. Tunnicliffe. With 8 colour plates.

4to Fine in very good dust wrapper. A History of the Birds of Madeira, the Desertas, and the Porto Santo Islands. With 8 colour plates.

Square 4to. Pp. 336. Fine in dust wrapper. Very well illustrated with colour and black & white photographs by the author. Signature on the front endpaper map

Cr. 4to. Pp. 288. Original illustrated cloth with white pheasants on a red ground, a gilt pheasant on the spine. Page edges spotted, otherwise very good. With 4 colour plates by H. Gronvold.

8vo. Pp. 367. Fine in dust wrapper. Illustrated with 151 photographs by the authors and 5 coloured plates by D.V.Cowen.

8vo. Pp. 351. Fine in dust wrapper. With illustrations by Ian Willis & Donald Watson, black and white plates.