Category: Ornithology

Coloured Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds

Price: $850.00

Publisher: London, van Voorst : 1846

Seller ID: 1321

1846 HANDSOMLY BOUND VOLUMES CONTAINING 138 HAND COLORED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES OF BIRDS' EGGS BY BRITISH NATURALIST--COPY OF H F WALTER WHO OWNED THE BEST PRIVATE COLLECTION IN ENGLAND. Two hardcover volumes 8 1/2 inches tall, full leather binding, blindstamped ruled margins to covers, spines with raised bands, gilt leather title labels, all edges gilt, Vol. I, armorial bookplate of Henry Fraser Walter to front paste-down, xvi, 223 pp, 62 hand colored lithographed plates (including 3 bis plates) of birds' eggs, each life size; Vol. II, [1], 225-470 pp, 76 hand colored plates (including 4 bis pla...
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Collection of offprints, 1912 - 1959

By: Oberholser, Harry Church

Price: $30.00

Publisher: : 1912 - 1959

Seller ID: 687

1912-1959 OFFPRINTS MOSTLY ON BIRDS OF THE AMERICAS AND ASIA BY NOTED ORNITHOLOGIST. 62 offprints from various journals, including 32 reports on the Americas, 14 from Asia, 1 from Africa, as well as Bird banding as an aid to the study of migration (The Auk, 1923) and obituaries on Robert Ridgway (The Auk, 1933), and Henry Philemon Attwater (The Auk, 1932). Condition: paper age-toned, some with previous owner signatures or handstamps, overall very good. HARRY CHURCH OBERHOLSER (1870-1963) attended Columbia University, and was awarded degrees from the George Washington University in1914 AND rece...
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Homing and Related Activities in Birds together with The Acqusition of Skill in Archery

By: Watson, J. B. and Lashley, K. S.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Carnegie Institution : 1915

Seller ID: 676

1915 TWO ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPHS BY PIONEERS IN THE SCHOOL OF BEHAVIORISM: HOMING IN BIRDS AND ARCHERY SKILLS IN HUMANS. 10 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, blindstamped, gilt title to spine, institutional bookplate to front paste-down, Homing and Related Activities of Birds: frontis plate of flocks of shore birds, pp 1-104, 7 black & white photographic plates, 10 text figures; The Acqusition of Skill in Archery, pp 105-128, 2 plates, 9 text figures. Covers darkened with surface wear, small paper library label bottom spine, binding tight, pages age-toned but crisp and unmarked, very ...
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Category: Ornithology

Coloured Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds

Collection of offprints, 1912 - 1959

Homing and Related Activities in Birds together with The Acqusition of Skill in Archery