Search Results: Titles starting with A from Isabelline Books

8vo. Pp. 320. Fine in dust wrapper, small chip at base of spine. With 12 black and white plates. Covering 89 diurnal raptors and 31 owls.

4to. Pp. 228. Fine in dust wrapper. With colour plates.

Oblong 4to. Pp. 57. Illustrated card covers. Very good. With 40 colour plates and excerpts from his field notes.

8vo. Pp. 327. Fine in dust wapper. The names, lore and literature of British Birds. Illustrated.

Roy. 8vo. pp.xii + 406. Fine in dust wrapper. With maps, tables and text figures. An account of three decades of research and debate on the ecological and behavioural aspects of the Palulinae - the ""New World"" or ""American Warblers"".

Cr. 4to. Pp. 192. Fine in dust wrapper. Illustrated in colour by the author.

Cr. 4to. Pp. 477. Very good in wrapper. The first work to show the precise distribution of the breeding birds of Britain and Ireland.

8vo. Pp. 208. Fine in dust wrapper. With 12 colour plates

8vo. Pp. 299. With black & white illustrations. Embossed stamp of previous owner othwise fine. Peterson Field Guide no. 39.

4to. Pp. 194. Original cloth, leather label on spine, gilt titles on spine and top board with a black & white photograph pasted-on. The cloth is showing signs of use and shelfwear. There is some occasional faint spotting to the text pages. With 21 mounted photographs on heavy tinted paper and 65 illustrations in the text, all by the author. Nicholl was at the Royal Naval College, Osborne House and wrote the work to interest Osborne cadets in the bird life around the Isle of Wight.

Cr. 4to. Pp. 138. Original cloth. Very good. From the library of William Dutcher, with his signature on the title page. Dutcher was the President of the National Association of Audubon Societies. Included is a letter from him to the London Times dated 1910 concerning the mass killing of birds for the millinery trade and the death of three wardens trying to protect the birds.

Roy. 8vo. Pp. 222. Very good in dust wrapper. With 24 colour and black & white plates. A remarkable account, with much on birds, of a living natural history museum tucked away in a lost corner of the Indian Ocean.

8vo. Pp. 368. As new in dust wrapper. With 8 colour and numerous black & white plates.

8vo Pp. 96. Wrappers, worn. Spine chipped. staples rusty. One leaf loose.

Small folio. Vols. 1 & 2 ( 4 published). Original gilt illustrated cloth. T.e.g. Spine ends frayed and corners rubbed. Bottom board of vol. 2 has a circular imprint. Vol. 1 : Pp. viii + 160, frontispiece + 40 full-page black & white photographic plates of nests and eggs with tissue guards + 21 vignettes. Vol. 2: Pp. 145, frontispiece + 40 plates + 15 vignettes. The final plate and endpaper in vol. 2 is loose. Each plate is dated and the location of the nesting site is given.

New Naturalist 87. As new in dust wrapper.

Roy. 8vo. Pp.227. Cloth. Very good. With numerous text figures.

8vo. Pp. 172. Re-backed with new endpapers. Corners rubbed.

New Naturalist no. 23. A very good bright copy of the first edition in dust wrapper. Wrapper complete, not price-clipped, spine slightly browned, tiny chip at top of spine, small closed tear on front. The book has no marks by any previous owner. Bright cloth.

Cr. 8vo. Pp. 184. Fine in dust wrapper, chipped at top of spine, edges rubbed. With 48 colour plates.