Coloured Figures Birds British Islands by Lilford Thomas Littleton Powys (54 results)

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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book presents a comprehensive survey of British birdlife featuring some of the nation's most prevalent and iconic species. The author provides an intimate portrait of each bird, describing its song and habits, and including riveting accounts from the author's own experiences in the field. Arranged in taxonomic groups such as woodpeckers, finches, and owls, the book covers their evolution, habitat selection, and the threats they face. The author's engaging prose and exquisite illustrations bring the beauty and wonder of these creatures to life, inviting readers to develop a deeper understanding of their natural world. Offering a powerful reminder of the preciousness of nature, this book highlights the importance of conservation and environmental stewardship, providing an invaluable resource for academics, nature enthusiasts, and anyone with an interest in the wonders of the natural world. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book proudly displays a series of compelling, beautifully detailed, and scientifically informative works of avian art showcasing a range of bird species. The acclaimed author's own writing accompanies each full-page illustration, sharing their wealth of experience and knowledge about the depicted birds. Their insights are derived from a lifetime of close observation, and study of their natural habitats and behaviours. With a particular fascination for Spain, where they have spent much time observing the native birds, the author shares their unique perspective on the country's avian population and ecology. Beyond the use of scientific observation, however, shines a clear love and appreciation for the beauty and splendour of the natural world and the creatures that inhabit it. This book is not only a stunning visual record of some of the world's most beautiful birds, but it also provides a fascinating insight into the lives of these creatures. The author's passion for their subject is evident on every page, and their writing is both informative and engaging. With its in-depth research, beautiful illustrations, and engaging narrative, this book is a must-have for any bird enthusiast. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book focuses on rare British Birds, from the Great Bustard to the Kite, providing an in-depth look at these fascinating species. The author, a distinguished ornithologist, travelled extensively to gather first-hand accounts of their habits and habitats, exploring their historical significance and cultural impact. The book delves into the complex relationship between humans and these rare birds, highlighting the threats they face and the conservation efforts undertaken to protect them. Through stunning illustrations and engaging prose, the author captures the beauty and fragility of these avian treasures, offering a valuable contribution to our understanding of the natural world. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.

Hardback. Condition: New.

Condition: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 292 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 258. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1897 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Volume 2 Language: English Pages: 258 Volume 2.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 291. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1897 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Volume 3 Language: English Pages: 291 Volume 3.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 310. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1897 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Volume 6 Language: English Pages: 310 Volume 6.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 282. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1897 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Volume 5 Language: English Pages: 282 Volume 5.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 312. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1897 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Volume 4 Language: English Pages: 312 Volume 4.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 326. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1897 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Volume 7 Language: English Pages: 326 Volume 7.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No jacket. R. H. Porter, 1891-97, 2nd edition. Seven volumes, hardback, 4to.

8 volumes, large octavo. (10 x 6 1/2 inches). Photogravure portrait and 429 hand-coloured lithographs and chromolithographs. List of subscribers to first edition bound in vol. I, second edition subscribers list bound in vol. 8. Original pink printed wrappers preserved in vol. 8. Contemporary green three-quarter morocco, bound by R.H. Porter, spine gilt with raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, spines a bit faded Provenance: Frederick DuCane Godman (bookplates, manuscript notes laid into vol. 1 regarding eggs of the roseate tern) Subscriber's copy of the first edition, extra-illustrated with 8 plates in different states. This important bird book, which "establish[ed] a new standard of excellence" (Radclyffe), contains the work of some of the finest ornithological artists of their day, including J.G. Keulemans and Archibald Thorburn. Normally found bound in 7 volumes, the eighth volume present here contains the original part wrappers and the subscribers' list to the second edition. Lilford, along with Osbert Salvin (1835-1898) who completed the final parts of work after Lilford's untimely death, were co-founders of the British Ornithologists' Union (BOU) in 1858 at Cambridge together with Godman. Alfred Newton (1829-1907), Cambridge Don and fellow co-founder of the BOU, provided the preface. The book was published in two semi-simultaneous editions, each of 36 parts, between 1885-1897 and 1891-1897 respectively. Godman appears in the subscribers' lists to both editions. The title-pages, wrappers and plates conform to the first edition, but this copy contains the following plates in 2 states: Vol. 1, pl. 7; vol. 2, pl. 25, vol. 5, pls 14, 18, 19, 20; vol. 7, pls 3 and 18. Radclyffe notes that some copies "are occasionally found bound up with . various cancelled plates that had not met with the author's approval" (p.11). Anker 308; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.119; Nissen IVB 563; see Howard Radclyffe, "Notes on Lord Lilford's Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands" in Archives of Nat. Hist. (1994) 21(1) 11-16.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. London: R.H. Porter, 1891-1897, Second Edition. Seven volumes in an elegant half leather binding by Bickers & Son, with green morocco spines faded to brown, marbled paper and gilt ruled boards, marbled end papers and page top edges gilt. Portrait frontispiece of the author, and 421 chromolithographed or hand-coloured lithographed plates mostly after A. Thorburn and J.G. Keulemans, mounted on linen stubs throughout. Second edition, first published from 1885, and not completed until after Lilford's death by Osbert Salvin and including a biography by the zoologist Alfred Newton. From the front of Vol I This Worl was issued in two Editions: the First commenced October 1885, and the Second April 1891 both Editions ending simultaneously. A keen ornithologist all his life, Lilford was one of the founders of the British Ornithologists' Union in 1858, and its president from March 1867. The previous owner has numbered the plates and pages in pencil / pen. Foxing throughout the volumes, mostly restricted to the page and plate margins, some pages quite badly foxed. Silk markers present, some detached. Pagination: Vol I 51 plates as called for, frontispiece portrait of Lord Lilford, some foxing, xxxv, [112]pp. Vol II 54 plates as called for, some foxing to plates and pages, ix, [120]pp. Vol III 66 plates as called for, foxing to plates and pages, ix, [128]pp. Vol IV 66 plates, as called for, some foxing to plates and pages, ix, [154]pp. VOL V 59 plates as called for, some foxing to plates and pages, ix, [138]pp. Vol VI 65 plates as called for, foxing, mostly to the plate and page margins, some foxing to plates and pages, ix, [150]pp. Vol VII 61 plates, foxing mostly to the plate and page margins ix, 170pp. Provenance: bookplate with initials to the front of each volume (see photo). Approximately 10 ¼ inches tall (25.5cm). Condition Report Externally Spine good condition green spines faded to brown with rubbing to the raised bands and corners, gilt titles and date to the base of the spine. Joints good condition rubbed, some loss of colour. Corners good condition rubbed and worn with some loss of colour to the green leather. Boards good condition green leather and marbled boards, marks and scratches. Page edges good condition top edge gilt, others tanned and foxed. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition all secure. Paste downs good condition marbled. End papers good condition marbled, some foxing to subsequent end papers. Title good condition tanned, with some foxing. Pages good condition see detailed descriptions above, the plates and pages numbered in pencil, some foxing throughout the volumes, mostly to the page and plate margins, some pages quite badly foxed. Binding good condition attractive, unevenly faded, rubbed to the raised bands and joints. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1891-97 Binding: Hardback.

8 volumes, large 8vo. (9 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches). Photogravure portrait, xxxix pp. with 421 hand-coloured lithographs and chromolithographs after Foster, Lodge, Keulemans and Thorburn, accompanied by text leaves describing each species. All plates and text-leaves mounted on linen stubs. Three-quarter brown morocco and cloth-covered boards, spines in six compartments with raised bands, lettered gilt, top edge gilt. Binding by Fazakerley of Liverpool A fine copy of "perhaps the finest and most perfect ornithological iconography" (Nissen) This important bird book, which "establish[ed] a new standard of excellence" (Radclyffe), contains the work of some of the finest nature illustrators of their day, including J.G. Keulemans and Archibald Thorburn. Lilford, along with Osbert Salvin (1835-1898) who completed the final parts of work after Lilford's untimely death, were co-founders of the British Ornithologists' Union (BOU) in 1858 at Cambridge together with Godman. Alfred Newton (1829-1907), Cambridge don and fellow co-founder of the BOU, provided the preface. The book was published in two semi-simultaneous editions, each of 36 parts, between 1885-1897 and 1891-1897 respectively. Godman appears in the subscribers' lists to both editions. Anker 308; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.119; Nissen IVB 563; see Howard Radclyffe, "Notes on Lord Lilford's Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands" in Archives of Nat. Hist. (1994) 21(1) 11-16; Wood, p.436; Zimmer, p.399; Freeman 2244; Mullens & Swann pp. 354-5.