Mathew Rev M A (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. 468pp. Ex-library copy with inside front and back covers. Dark red board bindings, presumably library's, with faded gilt lettering on spine in very good condition - edges and top and bottom of spine a bit chipped, and some age marks. Binding still whole, pages tight with some tanning and light foxing at edges. Illustrated throughout with b&w, sepia and colour plates. Three maps at back, all with tears but whole and clean. Previous owner's name & address handwritten on front flyleaf.…

Hardcover. pp.lxxxvii, 459, 7, 31 with colour frontis., 4 chromolithographs by Keulemans, 4 mounted b/w. photographs and 3 fold-out maps. 8vo. Hardback. Charming ownership insc. dated April 1896 to ffep. Light wear to blank margin of one map o/w. contents fine. Original decorative blue cloth boards in vg. plus condition with some spotting to spine. Preferred second edition. Contains the List of Subscribers and the Supplement.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo. 9 plates including 4 chromolithographs by J.G. Keulemans and 3 folding maps at the rear. Together with the scarce 32-page supplement published in 1895, loosely inserted. The whole is complete as called for and is in very good condition. There are 2 old tape repairs to the margins at the head of the fly-leaf and the half-title. There is also the original owner's name at the head of the title page. The book is now protected by a removable acetate jacket.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. A first edition copy of The Birds of Devon, with colour plates. A first edition copy of The Birds of Devon, with an introduction and some remarks on the migrations of Devonshire birds by W. S. M. D'Urban and the Rev. Murray A. Mathew.An extensive volume exploring the geographical position and physical aspect of Devon, summer migrants, winter visitors, collections of birds in Devonshire and a catalogue of the birds of Devon.With two folding maps to the rear of the volume and eight plates and a frontispiece.Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with some light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and fading to the spine. Front hinge is starting but remains firm. Internally, firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages with some scattered spots to the odd page. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…