Price: $600
London: The Tryon Gallery, in association with George Rainbird, 1971. First Edition, No. 354 of 550 numbered copies. Axel Amuchastegui was born in Cordoba, Argentina in 1921. He was self-taught and developed his own technique using Chinese inks and brushes. His work appeared in a number of publications including Pajaros..... Read More Item Details for Some Birds and Mammals of North America Add to Wish List
Item #258840
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London: Published by George B. Whittaker; and George Smith, Liverpool, [1828]. An Audubon rarity: the journal of his first journey to the upper Mississippi River. In 1810, Audubon moved to Henderson, Kentucky to establish himself in the merchant business with his partner Jean Ferdinand Rozier. In December of that year..... Read More Item Details for Journey up the Mississippi [pp. 104-27, in:] The Winter Wreath, A Collection of Original Contributions in Prose and Verse [For MDCCCXXIX] Add to Wish List
Item #376724
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New York & Philadelphia: J. J. Audubon and [vols. I–V] J. B. Chevalier, 1839–40–44. First octavo edition. First octavo edition of Audubon's “Great National Work,” the first complete edition and the first American edition; the original double-elephant folio was published in Edinburgh and London between 1827 and 1838. A very..... Read More Item Details for The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories Add to Wish List
Item #352476
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Edinburgh: 1831-1834-1835-1838-1849 [i.e. 1839]. First edition. Audubon's text, designed to accompany the elephant folio first edition of The Birds of America, provides descriptions of the birds described therein, as well as his account of travels and adventures in the American hinterland, including experiences in Florida, along the Mississippi, and in..... Read More Item Details for Ornithological Biography, or an Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America Add to Wish List
Item #369760
Price: $400
London: Witherby and Co, 1913. First Edition. Intended as a guide for the sportsman as well as the specialist, the volume forms a scarce companion to Baker’s Indian Ducks and Their Allies. Read More Item Details for Indian Pigeons and Doves Add to Wish List
Item #9477
Price: $4,500
London: Witherby for the New York Zoological Society, 1918-1927. First edition, no. 67 of 600 numbered copies. Beebe's text was been called "perhaps the greatest ornithological work of the present century, notable not only for its beauty and the wealth of information it contains, but also for the unusual grace..... Read More Item Details for A Monograph of the Pheasants Add to Wish List
Item #243916
Price: $300
[Lower Basildon, Reading, Berk.]: World Pheasant Association, [1994]. Special leather-bound edition, Number 19 of 50 copies. Read More Item Details for Pheasant Jungles Add to Wish List
Item #62497
Price: $150
New York: Published under the Auspices of the New York Zoological Society by Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936. First one volume edition. Read More Item Details for Pheasants, their Lives and Homes Add to Wish List
Item #42101
Price: $900
Newcastle: printed by Edward Walker for T. Bewick, 1809. Third edition, first combined edition. Pleasing copy of the wonderful illustrations of Thomas Bewick. Read More Item Details for A History of British Birds. Engraved on Wood by Thomas Bewick. Part I. Containing the History and Description of Land Birds ... Part.II. Containing the History and Description of Water Birds Add to Wish List
Item #371130
Price: $400
Boston: Boston Society of Natural History, 1928. Memoiors of the Boston Society of Natural History, Volume 6, Number 3. A large, scholarly work, based on the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900-1903 undertaken by the St.Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Read More Item Details for Birds of the Eurasian Tundra Add to Wish List
Item #56275
Price: $75
New York: Coward-McCann, [1954]. Read More Item Details for Florida Bird Life Add to Wish List
Item #24734
Price: $3,000
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Item #300198
Price: $500
London: Caxton Publishing Company, Clun House, Surrey Street, Strand, [1907-1908]. Read More Item Details for Birds of Great Britain and Ireland Order Passeres Add to Wish List
Item #239865
Price: $7,500
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1862. Second edition. The second edition, after the first of 1853-56, with the same content, of this important American color plate and ornithological work. Cassin intended his work to supplement that of Audubon. He had originally suggested to Audubon's sons a plan for extending the..... Read More Item Details for Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America Add to Wish List
Item #352120
Price: $150
Boston: Little Brown, 1891. First Edition. Read More Item Details for A Popular Handbook of the Ornithology of the United States and Canada. Based on Nuttall's Manual Add to Wish List
Item #265059
Price: $400
New York: J. Q. Premble, [1860s]. First edition. A scarce publication: OCLC locates only a single holding, at New York State Library. J. Q. Premble also published, 'Uncle Joseph's Pretty Stories About The Camel'. Read More Item Details for Uncle Joseph's Pretty Stories about Birds Add to Wish List
Item #333572
Price: $2,500
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1931. Clark, Roland. First edition, one of 535 copies. A lovely copy of a scarce volume that is less a book than a work of art. Roland Clark's matchless drypoints, printed from the plates on fine watermarked deckle edge paper, are luminous — one doesn't..... Read More Item Details for Stray Shots Add to Wish List
Item #366790
Price: $1,750
N.p: n.d. Edition of 15. Superb original etching by sportsman and Derrydale Press publisher Eugene V. Connett 3rd, whose few artworks give evidence of his keen eye and innate talent. This etching — one of only two he ever did, by all accounts — is an attractive head of an..... Read More Item Details for Etching of a Woodcock Head Add to Wish List
Item #302608
Price: $950
Boston: Estes and Lauriat, [1884-1885]. First edition, one of 300 copies. Comprises 18 plates of birds, and 1 plate of a nest, only (without any of the text, the map or the three plates of bird heads). Read More Item Details for The Birds of Haiti and San Domingo Add to Wish List
Item #323757
Price: $1,250
Albany, NY: Printed for Carroll and Cook, Printers to the Assembly, 1844. Read More Item Details for Zoology of New York or the Fauna … Part II. Birds Add to Wish List
Item #327035
Price: $4,000
N.p: Privately Printed for Alfred Denison, 1872. Limited to 25 copies. Read More Item Details for A Literal Translation into English of the Earliest Known Book on Fowling and Fishing written originally in Flemish and Printed at Antwerp in the Year 1492 [Dit Boecxken leert hoe men mach voghelen vanghen metten handen] Add to Wish List
Item #262391
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[London]: The Zoologist, 1894. First edition. The author's second separately published work, an offprint, printed in an edition of "about fifty copies for private distribution". Uncommon. Read More Item Details for Contributions to an Avifauna of Baden. [At head of title:] Reprinted from 'The Zoologist' for May, 1894 Add to Wish List
Item #327271
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[Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Geest & Portig], 1892. First edition. The first separately published work by Norman Douglas, with his surname misspelled, an offprint limited to “about 50 copies for private distribution” and preceded only by periodical appearances. Written by Norman Douglas following a brief visit to the island of Santorin..... Read More Item Details for Zur Fauna Santorins [drop title]. [At head of title:] Separat-Abdruck aus dem »Zoologischen Anzeiger« No. 407. 1892 Add to Wish List
Item #327268
Price: $2,000
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons for the New York Zoological Society, 1924. First Edition. Author's Autograph Edition. Number 32 of 100 copies printed on French handmade paper. Beebe led an expedition to the Galapagos Archipelago in the spring of 1923. This work resulted in a number of species being brought..... Read More Item Details for Galapagos: World's End Add to Wish List
Item #368691
Price: $400
[Lower Basildon, Reading, Berk.]: World Pheasant Association, [1994]. Number 19 of 50 copies of a Special leather-bound edition, signed by the author. Read More Item Details for Peafowl, Their Conservation, Breeding and Management Add to Wish List
Item #62498