British Birds Eggs and Nests by Rev Atkinson (27 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. A little light wear to the edges of the blue and green boards, very tanned pages with a name inside. Revised edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ilustrated by W.S. Coleman, black and white plates (illustrator). Revised Edition. Undated edition probably early to mid 20th century. Firmly bound, illustrated light brown boards without a jacket. Some dust marks on the cover, small remains of a removed label on the front paste down.

Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 245 pages. No dust jacket. Brown illustrated cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white plates. Clean pages and plates with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen inscription to front pastedown. Minor water staining to top edges of plates. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is bright and clear. Visible wear marks to boards.

Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 245 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with decorations. Black and white illustrated plates throughout. Slight cracking to gutters causing binding to be loose, however pages remain attached. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Sticker to rear pastedown. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Water marking to front board. Mottling to both boards.

Full-Leather. Condition: Poor. W.S. Coleman (illustrator). Attractive green leather college binding with gilt embossed monogram. Loosely bound with some plates removed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. George Routledge and Sons nd 15th edn hardback. Pictorial boards with gilt decoration. A little bumping/fraying to extremities. Fractional marking.Lacking blank ep. Paper crack at front inner. No names. Sellers stamp to front inner. i-viii, pp182, pp2 ads. Colour frontis + 11 additional colour plates as called for. a little age-toned to margins/odd margin mark/ odd spot but generally bright. One plate partially loose. Lacking most tissue-guards. Water mark to top margin of some plates. Binding sound. Good. No jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Pott8vo, coloured frontis, viii, 182, [2] p. Twelve colour plates of eggs complete. Original green blind-stamped, bevel edge cloth, elaborate gilt, all edges gilt. The hinges are cracked, fore-corners just peeping otherwise a good+ copy.

Condition: Good. Revised edition. 245 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over pictorial cloth covered boards. Colour plates at rear. Black and white frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with some rubbing, fraying and corner bumping. Some moderate sunning and tanning, particularly to spine. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with some small tears, chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. W. S. Coleman (illustrator). pp. vi, 122, [2 adverts]; 12 b/w engraved plates, end-paper adverts. Original brown boards, text in dark brown to front board and spine, some general wear, corners bumped, cloth dust soiled. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A good complete copy. (Bibliographic note: this work was issued in a number of different formats and over many years, later editions being significantly enlarged, this edition was was probably a cheaper edition of the first or at least a very early edition - it was issued as part of Routledge's Cheap Series - the series ran to over 230 volumes many of which are now rare and virtually impossible to obtain) Size: 12mo. Book.

With plates. Hardback. Wear to edges and corners. Boards darkened and lightly soiled, otherwise good+. vii + 245pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. George Routledge revised edition hardback.Covers quite marked.Tanning/foxing/previous owners name to endpapers only.Binding firm.Colour frontis plus 11 other colour plates to rear as called for.Folding chart in rear pocket.Good.No d/j.750gm for postage outside UK.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. 245 pages (complete) plus coloured plates. A mild-mannered, much owned copy. The pretty covers are much worn and scuffed. They are secure and placid. Within, aside from user wear the contents are foxed. The coloured illustrations are contented and fresh. The contents are amiable. This on the Great Auk: "The value of . eggs is almost fabulous, sixty guineas having been given a couple of them." A kindly if somewhat aging copy. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Coleman, W S (illustrator). reprint. Circa 1920 but undated. 12 colour plates of birds eggs. Fold-out chart in pocket at back of British Breeding Birds Nests & Eggs. Pictorial cover in blue, green & white with white & black lettering.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Coleman, W.S. (illustrator). Octavo; viii, 182pp, with coloured frontispiece and eight (of ten) concluding coloured plates (lacking plates 2 and 4). In full leather prize binding by Bickers and Son, gilt heraldic arms to front board, gilt double fillets to board margins, five raised spine bands between gilt double fillets, gilt lettered spine label to second compartment, remaining compartments gilt, binding worn but sound, matbled endpapers, presentation label to front pastedown, occasional unobtrusive soiling and spotting to text and plates, last few leaves (booksellers catalogue) excised. A good copy.

8vo. In light green cloth covers with gilt to blue spine. Top edge gilt. In very good condition. Prize bookplate to front endpaper. Early pages & plates at rear are a bit foxed. Else a clean and tight copy. 245pp. 12 colour chromo plates of eggs, by W.S.Coleman. Large fold out "Synoptical Table" in back pocket. ?The principal object and intention.is to present accurate and trustworthy accounts of the Nests and Nesting sites, the Eggs, and any ascertained nesting or breeding season peculiarities of every British breeding species? The book is aimed at 19th century ?nest-hunters? and ?egg collectors?.

Condition: very good. revised and re-edited. vii,245pp. 12mo. Original publisher's two-toned cloth (blue and green) with white and black titles and illustrations of eggs. Corners bumped. Binding lightly shaken and rear hinge starting. T.e.g. Clean internally with 12 colour plates of eggs and large foldout map in pocket rear board. very good A new and revised edition of the popular guide to British birds, their eggs, and their nests. The book was intended as a useful guide to egg and nest collectors. The twelve colour plates depict upwards of 100 eggs.

pp.viii, 182 with 12 colour plates. Small 8vo. Hardback. Owner's stamps to ffep. Some spotting to ends and very occ. to contents, occ. light pencil annotations, o/w. contents fine. Cords stretched in a couple of places. Original blind decorated boards and gilt decoration to spine very bright and in thor. vg. condition. Mullens and Swann (1917) wrote 'the most popular book on the subject for beginners for half a century'. This first edition of 1861 was published with colour plates; a new edition appeared the same year with uncoloured plates.

revised edition hardback in decorated cloth Nice copy octavo vii + 245pp., col. pls., appendix, index, Inc. 12 nice colour plates & chart in rear pocket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Coleman, W.C. (illustrator). Undated edition with 12 FULL COLOR ABSOLUTELY STUNNING PLATES OF BIRD EGGS. FULL RED LEATHER FINE BINDING STAMPED BY "BICKERS AND SONS LONDON" and "LIB : SCHOLA : DE : BARKHAMSTEDE." in gilt on the front cover. Front spine a bit weak but otherwise in very good to near fine condition. AMAZING ILLUSTRATIONS.

Full-Leather. Condition: Good+. Coleman, W. S. (illustrator). Undated edition, Prize label on endpaper dated 1890. Sixteenth Edition. Beautifully illustrated with 12 Full-Page Chromolithograph Plates, protected by tissue guards. Frontis illus, 7 Eggs of Birds of Prey including Golden Eagle. Very large Folded Table in Pocket at the back "Synoptical Table of British Breeding Birds Nests and Eggs. 182 p. pages. 7 1/4" Tall. Period Green Full-Leather cover with 5 raised bands to spine. Spine has Gilt Decoration in compartments and rope twist gilt on bands. Most of the title and author labels missing from spine but lettering is clearly indented ion the leather. Gilt College Badge with Mitre and Crown on front. Endpapers Marbled. All page edges Gilt. Some edge wear to leather. Penciled name on back of ffep. No other inscriptions. Pages and Plates in very good condition.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. W. S. Coleman (illustrator). Revised, with Revisions. pp. vii, 245, colour frontispiece and 11 further colour engraved plates. Binding in cloth with a little general wear and rubbing, gilt lettering to the spine. Contents clean and tight, Salter's Hill School stamp on the front pastedown, no inscriptions or other marks. A very good tight copy. (Bibliographic note: the series ran to over 230 volumes many of which are now rare and virtually impossible to obtain, at least in their fancy boards) Size: 12mo. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Good. viii, 182, 2 pp. Blue cloth with gilt decoration to spine and front cover. All edges gilt. With 12 chromolithograph plates. With staining to boards and rubbing to edges and to spine. Some ink markings internally, with remnants of a pressed flower on the half title. 12mo.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. W. S. Coleman (illustrator). A smart revised and re-edited copy of Atkinson's popular ornithological study of eggs and nests, illustrated throughout. Revised and re-edited edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eleven plates. Collated complete. A popular work on British ornithology, looking in particular at the eggs and nests of British birds. Written by John Christopher Atkinson, an English author, antiquary, and priest. Illustrated by William Stephen Coleman, an English painter and book illustrator. In the original beige cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities and minor bumping. Fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Small splits in the cloth to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot. Light spotting to the first and last few pages. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper with a plain sticker covering another inscription. Very Good. book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. W. S. Coleman (illustrator). A smart revised edition of British Birds' Eggs and Nests, with colour plates. A new and re-edited edition.This volume presents to young readers a complete list of British birds and their nests, nesting sites and eggs.With twelve colour plates.Collated, complete.With a large folding table, Synoptical Table of British-Breeding Birds' Nests and Eggs tipped into the front. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with some light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and some fading to the spine. A previous owner inscription to the front pastedown dated 1905. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Very Good. book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. W. S. Coleman (illustrator). A smart copy of Atkinson's popular ornithological study of eggs and nests, illustrated throughout. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eleven plates. With a large folding synoptical table of British-breeding birds' nests and eggs, showing site and materials of the former, and number, colour, and markings of the latter to a pocket at the rear. Collated complete. A popular work on British ornithology, looking in particular at the eggs and nests of British birds. With a guide to identification and preservation. Written by John Christopher Atkinson, an English author, antiquary, and priest. Illustrated by William Stephen Coleman, an English painter and book illustrator. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Minor fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Light age toning to the endpapers. Very Good. book.

pp.viii, 182 with 12 colour plates plus large, fold-out, Synoptical Table of British-Breeding Birds nests and eggs (with some wear to folds and tape repairs to verso) in pocket at rear. Small 8vo. Hardback. Occ. marks to contents and plate edges; minor surface abrasion to plate XII o/w. contents thor. vg. Previous owner's bookplate to front paste down. Original blue, decorative boards in thor. vg. condition. End-papers more recently replaced. Mullens and Swann (1917) wrote 'the most popular book on the subject for beginners for half a century'. This first edition of 1861 was published with colour plates; a new edition appeared the same year with uncoloured plates.

Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library book, usual markings. Well read with some wear but still very useable. THIS BOOK IS THE 1901 PUBLICATION AND IS A LIBRARY REBIND Quick dispatch from UK seller.