Search Results: Authors starting with W from Isabelline Books

8vo. Pp. 120. Very good in discoloured dust wrapper. With text figures.

Original cloth. Spine ends frayed and cloth a little discoloured. Pp. 494. With a folding map. Text is fine.

8vo. Pp. xx + 563. The Second and Revised Edition. Original cloth. Top hinge a little tender, some minor shelfwear. Wtih 26 maps and diagrams including a coloured frontispiece map with a tissue guard (discoloured).

Roy. 4to. Pp. 504. Laminated Boards. Corners slightly bumped. Label & signature of former owner on title page. With 56 colour plates, numerous maps and line drawings.

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

8vo. Pp. xv + 283. Original pictorial cloth. With 59 black & white photographic plates by Oliver Pike. Spine dull, ends frayed, cloth worn & corners scuffed, endpapers discoloured. This is the first edition, the second impression has a smaller format and different cover illustrations.

Cr. 4to. 3 volumes. Brown buckram. T.e.g. Page edges a little discoloured. Complete dust wrappers, spines browned, corners a little rubbed, each with a tipped-on colour plate. With 53 colour plates by Philip Rickman. A very good sound set.

Roy. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. xiii + 410. Very good dust wrapper. With 36 black and white plates, numerous figures & tables.

Roy. 8vo. Pp. 287. Fine in dust wrapper.

8vo. Pp. 255. As new in dust wrapper. With black & white plates.

Cr. 4to. Pp. 240. Near fine in dust wrapper. Numerous black & white illustrations by Philip Snow. "Combines the best tradition of English Natural History writing with a vibrant and resolute defence of traditional country ways.

4to. pp. 176. Fine in dust wrapper, spine a little faded. With 15 colour plates by Chloe Talbot-Kelly. Including a history of the ornithology of the islands, colour photographs, text figures, distribution maps and a comprehensive bibliography.

4to. Pp. 144. Fine in dust wrapper. Illustrated by the author in colour and monochrome.

Roy. 8vo. Pp. xx + 374. Fine in dust wrapper. With the bookplate of K.E.L. Simmons. Illustrated by Keith Brockie with colour plate and landscapes by Donald Watson.

8v0. Pp. 236. A very good copy in chipped & worn dust wrapper.With 33 black & white plates and 3 maps. Much of the content is on birds including a sytematic list.

Sm. 8vo. Pp. 299. Original blue cloth. Re-backed with original spine laid-on, chipped at ends. New endpapers. Corners and edges a little rubbed. Small booksellers label on front paste-down. Gilt eagle on top board. Contents bright and clean.

8vo. P. x + 226. Fine in dust wrapper. With 28 colour plates, maps & drawings. Covers 112 breeding species.

8vo. Pp. 155. Fine in dust wrapper. With drawings by Michael Hodgson.

8vo. Pp. 160. Gilt decorated cloth in very good dust wrapper.

New Naturalist no. 72. The first edition, first printing. Fine in dust wrapper, spine very slightly faded as usual.