A selection of Bird Books

New Titles

Europe's Birds: An Identification Guide

by Swash, A.; Hume, R.; Harrop, H.; Still, R.

Cat No. : 42860, Published : OCT 2021, Illustrations : col photos

Paperback £14.99 £20.00 (Save £5.01)

The most comprehensive single-volume photographic guide to Europe’s birds ever produced - from the authors of the acclaimed Britain’s Birds.

Covering more than 900 species, and illustrated with (more)

Collins Birds of the World: All 10,480 Species Illustrated

by Arlott, N.; van Perlo, B.; Erize, F.; Rodriguez Mata, J.R.

Cat No. : 40914, Published : SEP 2021, Illustrations : 280 col plates, 25,000 col illus

Hardback £49.99 £75.00 (Save £25.01)

For the first time, the complete collection of Norman Arlott's incredibly detailed, accurate and beautiful bird paintings has been brought together in one comprehensive volume, accompanied by concise (more)

Seabirds: The New Identification Guide

by Harrison, P.; Perrow, M.; Larsson, H.

Cat No. : 44028, Published : 2021, Illustrations : 239 col plates (3800+ col illus)

Hardback £69.95 £75.00 (Save £5.05)

This is the first comprehensive guide to the world’s 435 species of seabirds, to be published since the 1983 publication of Harrison’s Seabirds: An Identification Guide. It covers all known (more)

The Birds of Wales Adar Cymru

by Prichard, R.; Hughes, J.; Spence, I.M.; Haycock, B.; Brenchley A. (Eds)

Cat No. : 44543, Published : 2021, Illustrations : 200+ illus

Hardback £41.50 £45.00 (Save £3.50)

It is almost 30 years since the first avifauna was published for all of Wales and much has changed. We now have a better understanding of how humans have affected birds of Wales, particularly the (more)

Field Guide to the Birds of Bangladesh

by Grimmett, R.; Thompson, P.; Inskipp, T.

Cat No. : 44873, Published : SEP 2021, Illustrations : col plates, col distribution maps

Paperback £35.00

Bangladesh - an amazing country packed with rich birdlife that until recently has been very much off the beaten trail in terms of birding. Why is this? Part of the reason is there has never been a (more)

Used & Antiquarian

Birds of the Atlantic Islands

by Bannerman, D.A.; Bannerman, W.M.

Cat No. : 46264, Published : 1963-1968, Illustrations : 107 plates (34 col), 11 maps (1 folding), text figs

Hardback £380.00

Illustrated in colour by D.M. Reid-Henry, George Lodge and P.A. Clancey, text illustrations by D.M. Reid-Henry, Roland Green, Eric Gorton and C.F. Tunnicliffe. Vol. 1: A History of the Birds of the (more)

The Birds of Africa. Vols I-VII

by Brown, L.H.; Urban, E.K.; Newman, K.; Fry, C.H.; Keith, S.; Safford, R.; Hawkins, F.

Cat No. : 44854, Published : 1982-2004, Illustrations : col + b/w plates, text figs

Hardback £450.00

The Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds

by Cooper, W.T.; Forshaw, J.M.

Cat No. : 44831, Published : 1979, Illustrations : 60 col plates, b/w illus, maps

£275.00

Reprint. This book was first published in 1977. Fine colour plates by the Australian ornithological artist, William T. Cooper, depict all known species of birds of paradise and bower birds in their (more)

Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa: The Birds of the Western Palearctic. Vols 1-9

by Cramp, S.; Simmons, K.; Perrins, C.M. (Eds)

Cat No. : 45043, Published : 1977-1994, Illustrations : col plates, maps, text figs

Hardback £250.00

RSPB edition. (more)

Essential Guide to Birds of the Isles of Scilly

by Flood, R.L.; Hudson, N.; Thomas, B.

Cat No. : 44805, Published : 2007, Illustrations : 152 col plates, b/w text illus

Hardback £95.00

Foreword by Bill Oddie. A concise, up-to-date and accurate account of all species and subspecies reliably recorded on and around the islands. (more)

Parrots of the World

by Forshaw, J.M.; Cooper, W.T. (Illus.)

Cat No. : 46113, Published : 1973, Illustrations : 158 full-page colour plates, 179 text figs, distribution maps

Hardback £125.00

1st edition. Fine colour plates by William T. Cooper illustrate all 340 species and some subspecies (500 birds illustrated). Descriptions of all species / subspecies include taxonomic measurements, (more)

Birds of New Guinea. Vol. I-II

by Iredale, T.

Cat No. : 46209, Published : 1956, Illustrations : 35 col plates, 1 folding map

£140.00

Illustrations by L. Medland. (more)

The Birds of South Africa

by Layard, E.L.; Sharpe, R. Bowdler

Cat No. : 42513, Published : 1875-1884, Illustrations : 12 hand-col plates

Hardback £850.00

New [second] edition, revised and augmented by R. Bowdler Sharpe. Greatly enlarged from the unillustrated first edition of 1867. Sharpe rewrote much of the original text, and identified several new (more)

Pirates and Predators: The Piratical and Predatory Habits of Birds

by Meinertzhagen, Col. R.

Cat No. : 46232, Published : 1959, Illustrations : 18 col + 26 b/w plates,

Hardback £120.00

First edition. The book is illustrated with 18 colour plates by G.E. Lodge, Millais and others, and many striking photographs. (more)

Birds of Arabia

by Meinertzhagen, Col. R.

Cat No. : 46116, Published : 1980, Illustrations : 19 mounted col plates, 9 mounted photogaphic plates, 53 text figs, 35 text maps + 1 folding col map

Hardback £750.00

De Luxe Edition (first edition published in 1954 by Oliver and Boyd) limited to 295 numbered copies. Colour illustrations by George Lodge, D.M. Reid-Henry, and Miss Talbot Kelly. (more)

The Natural History of the British Surface-Feeding Ducks

by Millais, J.G.

Cat No. : 44841, Published : 1902, Illustrations : 41 col plates, 8 photogravures, 16 b/w plates

Hardback £400.00

First edition - large paper edition limited to only 600 copies. An account, based on personal observations, of the habits and modes of life of the forms of birds treated in the book and of the (more)

A History of British Birds. Vol. I-VIII

by Morris, F.O.

Cat No. : 37134, Published : n.d. [1888], Illustrations : 358 hand-col plates

Hardback £480.00

Cabinet Edition, reissue (first cabinet edition published in 1863-1867). Morris' popular work on British Birds first appeared in 6 volumes in 1850-1857, and it subsequently went through several (more)

The Bird Life of Texas Vol. I-II

by Oberholser, H.C.; Kincaid, E.B. (Ed.)

Cat No. : 46132, Published : 1974, Illustrations : 2 col frontis, 34 col plates, b/w illus

Hardback £80.00

Most of the water colours were painted especially for this book by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. (more)

The Vultures of Africa

by Mundy, P; Butchart. D; Ledger, J.; Piper, S.

Cat No. : 46133, Published : 1992, Illustrations : 11 col plates, 130 col + b/w photos, line illus, maps, figs, diagrams

Hardback £90.00

A major monograph giving detailed information on all eleven species of African vulture, produced in association with the Vulture Study Group. The species accounts cover history of each species' (more)

Our Native Songsters

by Pratt, Anne

Cat No. : 42184, Published : 1852, Illustrations : engraved frontis, 72 col plates

Hardback £125.00

First edition. Charming chormolithographic plates of British birds. Anne Pratt (1806-1893) was a botanist and author of popular Victorian natural history books.

Freeman 3078; Mullens & Swann, p. (more)

Eggs of British Birds, with an Account of their Breeding-Habits. Limicolae

by Poynting, F.

Cat No. : 46190, Published : 1895-1896, Illustrations : 54 col plates

Hardback £550.00

First edition. Published in four parts. The completion of the work was prevented by the death of the author. The published section deals with the Limicolae (plovers and sandpipers). The work is (more)

Grønlands Fugle. The Birds of Greenland. Pt. I-III

by Salomonsen, F.; Gitz-Johansen, [Aage] (Illustrator)

Cat No. : 46351, Published : 1950-1951, Illustrations : 52 col plates, 1 folding map

£180.00

Text bilingual English and Danish. Folding map loosely inserted in Pt III. Striking colour plates after paintings by Danish artist, Aage Gitz-Johansen (1897-1977). (more)

The Fairy-Wrens: A Monograph of the Maluridae

by Schodde, R.; Weatherly, R. (Illus.)

Cat No. : 46007, Published : 1982, Illustrations : 36 col plates, text illus

Hardback £75.00

Monograph of the Malurid wrens of Australia and New Guinea. (more)

Shorelands Summer Diary

by Tunnicliffe, C.F.

Cat No. : 46204, Published : 1952, Illustrations : frontis, col plates, text illus

Hardback £120.00

First edition. This book is the first natural history book that Tunnicliffe both wrote and illustrated himself, and it gives a delightful and vivid account of the author's ornithological adventures (more)

The Sparrowhawk

by Newton, I.

Cat No. : 46566, Published : 1986, Illustrations : 24 b/w plates, 90 figs, line drawings

Hardback £50.00

Illustrations by Keith Brockie. (more)

The Magpies: The Ecology and Behaviour of Black-billed and Yellow-billed Magpies

by Birkhead, T.R.

Cat No. : 45670, Published : 1991, Illustrations : 1 col plate, numerous text figs

Hardback £40.00

First edition. (more)

The Peregrine Falcon

by Ratcliffe, D.

Cat No. : 46571, Published : 1980, Illustrations : 4 col + 32 b/w plates, 16 text figs

Hardback £35.00

First edition. Illustrated by Donald Watson (more)

Flamingos

by Kear, J.; Duplaix-Hall, N. (Eds)

Cat No. : 46634, Published : 1975, Illustrations : 7 col + 48 b/w plates, text illus

Hardback £90.00

1st edition. One of the scarcest Poyser titles. Jacket design by Ian Willis. Introduction by Peter Scott. Colour frontis after a painting by Peter Scott. The book comprises of papers given at a (more)

The Natural History of Cape Clear Island

by Sharrock, J.T.R.; Gillmor, R.

Cat No. : 46624, Published : 1973, Illustrations : b/w photos + line drawings in text, end-paper maps

Hardback £85.00

First edition. Illustrated by Robert Gillmor. Cape Clear lies off the the southern coast of Ireland and has been the site of a bird observatory since 1959. This account of the island, its flora and (more)

The Hen Harrier

by Watson, D.

Cat No. : 46621, Published : 1977, Illustrations : 4 col plates, drawings, 15 text figs

Hardback £50.00

Artist, ornithologist and author, Donald Watson has made an especial study of the Hen Harrier over many years and his field notes and sketch books of this bird of prey go back to the 1940s. With (more)

The Sparrows: A Study of the Genus Passer

by Summers-Smith, J.D.

Cat No. : 46560, Published : 1988, Illustrations : 8 col plates, maps, drawings

Hardback £40.00

Original edition. Illustrations and colour plates by R. Gillmor. (more)

The Pinyon Jay: Behavioral Ecology of a Colonial and Cooperative Corvid

by Marzluff, J.M.; Balda, R.P.

Cat No. : 46556, Published : 1992, Illustrations : 116 text figs, 10 b/w photos

Hardback £50.00

The Manx Shearwater

by Brooke, M.

Cat No. : 46551, Published : 1990, Illustrations : text figs, b/w photos, line drawings

Hardback £50.00

In Search of Sparrows

by Summers-Smith, D.

Cat No. : 46542, Published : 1992, Illustrations : text figs

Hardback £65.00

The author's entertaining account of his worldwide travels, while pursuing his studies on sparrow biology. Very scarce. (more)

Birds in Wales

by Lovegrove, R.; Williams, G.; Williams, I.

Cat No. : 46532, Published : 1994, Illustrations : text figs

Hardback £50.00

The Pied Flycatcher

by Lundberg, A.; Alatalo, R.

Cat No. : 46540, Published : 1992, Illustrations : 8 b/w photos, 103 text figs, line drawings

Hardback £50.00

Birds of the Strait of Gibraltar

by Finlayson, C.

Cat No. : 46555, Published : 1992, Illustrations : 34 b/w photos, 282 figs

Hardback £45.00

The Dippers

by Tyler, S.; Ormerod, S.

Cat No. : 46531, Published : 1994, Illustrations : col frontis, 22 b/w photos, 65 text figs, 32 drawings

Hardback £45.00

With drawings by D. Rees. (more)

British Birds. Vol. 1-108

by Witherby, H.F.; Tucker, B.W.; Nicholson, E.M.; Hollom, P.A.D.; Cramp, S.; Chandler, R.J. et al (Eds)

Cat No. : 46516, Published : 1907-2015, Illustrations : col + b/w illus, text figs

Hardback £1,250.00

An Illustrated Magazine devoted to the Birds on the British List. Complete run of annual volumes covering more than 100 years of publication, from Vol. 1 (1907) to Vol. 108 (2015). Published monthly (more)

New Naturalists

The Folklore of Birds (New Naturalist 39)

by Armstrong, E.A.

Cat No. : 46187, Published : 1958, Illustrations : col frontis + 32 b/w plates

Hardback £135.00

1st edition. (more)

Man and Birds (New Naturalist 51)

by Murton, R.K.

Cat No. : 37173, Published : 1971, Illustrations : 32 b/w plates, 40 text figs

Hardback £55.00

1st edition, 1st state. Bernhard & Loe 51A-DJ1. (more)

The Greenshank (New Naturalist Monograph 5)

by Nethersole-Thompson, D.

Cat No. : 44574, Published : 1951, Illustrations : 4 col plates, 42 b/w photos, 12 maps

Hardback £95.00

First edition. (more)

British Larks, Pipits & Wagtails (New Naturalist 78)

by Simms, E.

Cat No. : 43018, Published : 1992, Illustrations : 4 col plates, over 200 b/w figs

Hardback £200.00

First edition. Jacket design by Robert Gillmor. Scarce.

Bernhard & Loe, NN78A. (more)

The Yellow Wagtail (New Naturalist Monograph 4)

by Smith, S.

Cat No. : 37126, Published : 1950, Illustrations : 8 col + 4 b/w plates

Hardback £55.00

1st edition, first state, with price-clipped and repriced (18/-) d/w.

Bernhard & Loe, M4-AP1. (more)

The Herring Gull's World (New Naturalist Monograph 9)

by Tinbergen, N.

Cat No. : 44794, Published : 1953, Illustrations : 30 b/w plates

Hardback £35.00

First edition. Jacket design by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis. (more)

Grouse: The Natural History of British and Irish Species (New Naturalist 107)

by Watson, A.; Moss, R.

Cat No. : 46476, Published : 2008, Illustrations : colour photos

Hardback £25.00

First edition. Jacket design by Robert Gillmor. (more)

British Tits (New Naturalist 62)

by Perrins, C.

Cat No. : 28687, Published : 1979, Illustrations : 16 b/w plates, text figs

Hardback £45.00

1st edition. (more)

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