The Ibis. A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology. Twelfth Series, Volume IV.

London, British Ornithological Union, 1928. 8vo (21.8 x 14.3 cm). xlvi, 866 pp.; 43 plates (seven in full colour). Original red, embossed cloth with gilt title on the spine, and gilt vignette on the front board. Top edge gilt.

[Anonymous]

Japanische Vogelstudien. 12 Blätter.

Wien, K.K. Österreichischen Handels-Museum, 1895. Folio (45.0 x 33.0 cm). Lithographed pictorial title, and 12 full-colour mounted lithographed plates. Portfolio with pictorial boards.

Audubon, J. J.

Account of the habits of the Turkey Buzzard ( Vultur aura), particularly with the view of exploding the opinion generally entertained of its extraordinary power of smelling.

Edinburgh, Adam Black, 1827. 8vo (22.5 x 14.4 cm). 13 pp. [numbered 172-184]. Original printed wrappers.

Audubon, J. J.

Great Auk. [Original hand-coloured print for The Birds of America].

London, R. Havell Jr. [for the author], 1836. Oblong broadsheet (62.7 x 96.3 cm - visible surface). Original colour-printed aquatint with additional hand-colouring. Framed and glazed.

Bairei, K.

Bairei hyakucho gafu. Bairei's Album of one hundred birds.

Tokyo, (circa 1881-1882). Two volumes (of three). Japanese stitched binding (24.8 x 16.5 cm). With 67 coloured woodblock prints and text in Japanese. Original stitched wrappers.

Barkow, J. C. L.

Disquisitiones recentoires de arteriis mammalium et avium.

Halle, Academia Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum, 1843. 4to (29.0 x 22.3 cm). 112 pp.; eight lithographed plates (one partly coloured). 20th-century blind blue boards.

Barruel, P. [L. E. A.]

Mésange azurée, Cyanistes cyanus. [Original watercolour].

[Unpublished], [ca. 1970]. Single sheet (24.9 x 18.2 cm). Original watercolour drawing with ink signature. Mounted on a larger sheet of dark blue paper (32.5 x 25.0 cm).

Barruel, P. [L. E. A.]

Mésange sultane ou Melanochlora sultanea. [Original watercolour].

[Unpublished], [19]43. Single sheet (24.1 x 17.8 cm). Original watercolour drawing with pencilled caption, and ink signature. Mounted on a larger sheet of brown paper (32.8 x 25.1 cm).

Barruel, P. [L. E. A.]

Roitelet à triple bandeau, Regulus ignicapilla. [Original watercolour].

[Unpublished], [ca. 1970]. Single, oblong sheet (17.5 x 24.2 cm). Original watercolour drawing with pencilled caption, and ink signature. Mounted on a larger sheet of greyish-brown paper (25.0 x 32.5 cm).

Bond, J.

Birds of the West Indies. An account with full descriptions of all the birds known to occur or have occurred on the West Indian Islands. [The rare true first edition].

Philadelphia, PA, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1936. 8vo (19.0 x 13.0 cm). xxv, 456 pp.; full colour frontispiece, numerous fine engravings. Original grey buckram with gilt title on the front board and spine. Map on front endpapers.

Bosch, G. van den

[Sculpture] Amazon parrots.

ca. 1965. Bronze sculpture. Ca. 175 x 100 x 75 cm.

Bresslern-Roth, N. von

Pfefferfresser. Tukane. [Tucans].

Wien, the artist, 1929. Single printed linocut in several colours (33.0 x 27.3 cm). Monogram N. B. Roth in lower right corner.

Bruin, C., De [De Bruyn or Bruijn]

Reizen over Moskovie, door Persie en Indie: verrykt met driehondert kunstplaten, vertoonende de beroemste lantschappen en steden, ook de byzondere dragten, beesten, gewassen en planten, die door gevonden worden: voor al derzelver oudheden, en wel voornamentlyk heel uitvoerig, die van het heerlijke en van oudts de geheele werrelt door befaemde hof van Persepolis, by den Persianen Tchilminar genaemt. Alles door den Autheur zelf met groote naeukeurigheit na 't leven afgetekent, en nooit voor dezen in 't ligt gebragt.

Amsterdam, R. and G. Wetstein, J. Oosterwyk and H. van de Gaete, 1714. Folio (33.3 x 21.1 cm). Allegorical frontispiece (by Picart, dated 1711), title page (in red and black); engraved portrait of de Bruyn (by G. Kneller), [vi], 472, [xii] pp.; 260 numbered engraved plates (many double, folded), two large maps, and 34 large text engravings, not numbered, including portraits, views, etc. Contemporary blind ruled and embossed vellum. Spine with six raised bands, title written in ink, in a neat contemporary hand.

Buffon, G. Comte de

Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière: histoire naturelle des oiseaux.

Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1770-1785. 18 volumes in 18. Large 12mo (18.0 x 10.5 cm). Text with 264 engraved plates. Uniform contemporary half calf over speckled boards. Spines with five raised, gilt-ornamented bands; compartments with gilt floral patterns and two morocco labels in red or brown (short title) and black (part number).

Buffon, [G. L. L. Comte de]

Oeuvres complètes de Buffon avec la nomenclature Linnéenne et la classification de Cuvier. Revues sur l'édition in 4to de l'Imprimerie Royale et annotées par M. Flourens.

Paris, Garnier frères, 1853-1855. In 12 volumes. Very large 8vo (26.7 x 17.8 cm). Text with one engraved frontispiece, one hand-coloured frontispiece, one engraved portrait of Buffon, and 160 hand-coloured engraved plates and maps, for a total of 163 plates outside the text. Contemporary uniform dark blue half calf over pebbled boards; spines with four raised bands, compartments with gilt vignettes and titles. Iridescent endpapers. All edges gilt.

Buller, W. L.

A History of the Birds of New Zealand.

London, John Van Voorst, 1873. Large 4to (30.3 x 23.7 cm). xxiii, [i], 384 pp.; 36 finely lithographed plates, of which 35 in delicate original hand-colouring, and one (frontispiece) only tinted, as intended. Contemporary red half morocco over pebbled, triple-gilt-bordered linen boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-rolled bands; compartments rich gilt with floral patterns and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.

Bulliard, P.

Traité de la chasse aux oiseaux et de toutes les ruses dont on se sert pour les prendre, suivi d'une collection considerable de figures et de pièges nouveux propres à différentes chasses. Nouvelle édition, augmentée de la méthode pour faire les filets; de beaucoup de détails sur la chasse au gibier-plume, et ornée d'un grand nombre de figures représentant les oiseaux que l'on chasse en France.

Paris, Audot, 1818. 12mo (16.3 x 9.5 cm). 270 pp.; 57 engraved plates of birds and utensils to catch them. Contemporary full speckled calf. Spine with four raised bands, rich gilt compartment and brown morocco label with gilt title. Boards with thin gilt line border. Edges speckled red.

Cassin, J. [and others]

Notes of an examination of the birds of the subfamily Coerebinae. [AND] Notes on some species of birds from South America. IN: Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 1864.

Philadelphia, PA, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1864. In five parts. 8vo (24.5 x 15.5 cm). 318 pp. With four originally hand-coloured lithographed plates depicting birds. Uniform printed wrapppers.

Cotton, J.

The song birds of Great Britain; containing delineations of thirty-three birds, of the natural size, (incl. the genus Sylvia of Latham,) coloured principally from living specimens, with some account of their habits, and occasional direction for their treatment in confinement.

London, privately published, [1835-]1836. Title-page, [xi] pp. [prefaces]; 33 beautiful, originally hand-coloured engraved plates with explanatory text leaves. Contemporary dark green grained full morocco. Boards with double rich gilt borders with floral corner pieces; gilt lines on the edges, and inner gilt lines. Spine with ornamental gilt rectangles and title. All edges gilt.

Dabbene, R. [R.]

Ornitología Argentina. Estudios y exploraciones ornitológicas en la República Argentina.

Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires, 1910. Large 8vo (28.0 x 18.6 cm). xiv, 313 pp.; 86 text figures. Blind front wrapper.

Delarue, J. [B. A.]

Album d'Oiseaux.

Paris, Arnauld de Vresse, [between 1857-1871]. Oblong folio (16.4 x 26.3 cm). Title page in red and black; 16 pp. of explanatory text; 18 finely lithographed plates, originally coloured by hand. Original pebbled, blind-stamped burgundy cloth. Front board with gilt floral arabesques and gilt title.

Descourtilz, J. T.

Ornithologie brésilienne. Ou histoire des oiseaux du Brésil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes. A magnificent parrot plate. Plate 8. Ara hyacinthus [Hyacinth ara].

Rio de Janeiro, Thomas Reeves, [1852]. Folio (62.0 x 45.0 cm). Chromolithographed plate with additional fine, original hand-colouring.

Descourtilz, J. T.

Ornithologie brésilienne. Ou histoire des oiseaux du Brésil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes. A magnificent toucan plate. Plate 13. Ramphastos toco and Pteroglossus piperivorus [Toco or giant toucan and Guyana toucannet].

Rio de Janeiro, Thomas Reeves, [1852]. Folio (62.0 x 45.0 cm). Chromolithographed plate with additional fine, original hand-colouring.

Descourtilz, J. T.

Ornithologie brésilienne. Ou histoire des oiseaux du Brésil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes. A pair of magnificent parrot plates. Plates 6 and 7. Ara ararauna, and Ara severus [Blue-and-yellow macaw, chestnut-fronted macaw], and Ara aracanga, and Ara cryssosema [Scarlet macaw and colour variety].

Rio de Janeiro, Thomas Reeves, [1852]. Folio (62.0 x 45.0 cm). Two chromolithographed plates with additional fine, original hand-colouring.

Descourtilz, J. T.

Ornithologie brésilienne. Ou histoire des oiseaux du Brésil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes. A pair of magnificent toucan plates. Plates 12 and 14. Ramphastos ariel and Ramphastos dicolorus, and Pteroglossus aracari and Pteroglossus ulocomus. [Ariel toucan and green-billed toucan; and black-necked aracari and curl-crested aracari].

Rio de Janeiro, Thomas Reeves, [1852]. Folio (62.0 x 45.0 cm). Two chromolithographed plates with additional fine, original hand-colouring.

Descourtilz, J. T.

Ornithologie brésilienne. Ou histoire des oiseaux du Brésil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes. Plate 1. Sarcoramphus papa [King vulture] and Percnopterus jota [Black vulture].

Rio de Janeiro, Thomas Reeves, [1852]. Folio (62.0 x 45.0 cm). Chromolithographed plate with additional fine, original hand-colouring.

Descourtilz, J. T.

Ornithologie brésilienne. Ou histoire des oiseaux du Brésil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes. Plate 2. Harpyia cristata. [Harpy eagle].

Rio de Janeiro, Thomas Reeves, [1852]. Folio (62.0 x 45.0 cm). Chromolithographed plate with additional fine, original hand-colouring.

Descourtilz, J. T.

Ornithologie brésilienne. Ou histoire des oiseaux du Brésil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes. Plate 5. Otus clamator, Strix perlata, and Strix pumila. [Striped owl, pearl-spotted owlet, and pygmy owl].

Rio de Janeiro, Thomas Reeves, [1852]. Folio (62.0 x 45.0 cm). Chromolithographed plate with additional fine, original hand-colouring.

Dresser, H. E.

A monograph of the Coraciidae or family of the rollers.

Farnborough, the author, 1893. Folio (37.6 x 28.3 cm). Title page with woodcut vignette (owl) and quote in Greek; xx, 111; 27 lithographed plates, all in a most careful and beautiful original hand-colouring. Contemporary full red pebbled morocco. Spine with five raised, gilt-stippled bands; compartments with central gilt vignettes and title. Boards with intricate gilt floral borders and woodcut vignette (an owl - as on the title page), bevelled edges, gilt inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt.

Felker, J. O. and J. Stupp (eds.)

The Night Heron. A Magazine of Mid-western Ornithology. Volumes 1-7.

Saint Louis, MO, 1933-1937. Seven volumes in one. Near square 4to (21.3 x 17.2 cm). Near contemporary green buckram with gilt title on the spine.

Ferrer de Valdecebro, A.

Govierno general, moral y politico hallado en las Aves mas generosas, y nobles, sacado de sus naturales, virtudes, y propiedades le escrive el Padre Maestro Fray Andres Ferrer de Valdecebro...le consagra al gloriosissimo Padre, y apostol Valenciano San Vicente Ferrer.

Madrid, M. Alegre, 1670. 4to (20.5 x 13.7 cm). [xl], 205 numbered leaves, 30 pp. of "tabla general" (general index); one engraved portrait of San Vicente Ferrer and 18 text engravings; all of the birds discussed. Limp vellum with beautifully contemporary calligraphed title on the spine.

Frisch, J. L.

Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes. Der grosse gepfeilte Falck. Falco sagittatus. Faucon. [plate 82]

[Berlin, Nicolai, 1733-1763]. Folio (37.0 x 23.7 cm). Single printed leaf with original hand-colouring, the eye and claws augmented with gum arabic.

Gaudelet, C.

Le martinet et son nid [the barn swallow and its nest]. Original watercolour drawing.

[Lille], unpublished, 1843. Original watercolour on single sheet of cardboard (28.7 x 22.6 cm). Preserved in large (50.0 x 35.0 cm) modern cardboard frame with transparent overlay.

Gloger, C. W. L.

Die Hegung der Höhlenbrüter mit besonderer Rücksicht auf die Nachteile des Vogelfanges für Land- und Forstwirthschaft. Mit fünf lithographischen Tafeln. [BOUND WITH] Die nützlichsten Freunde der Land- und Forstwirthschaft unter den Tieren, als die von der Natur bestellten Verhüter und Bekämpfer von Ungezieferschäden und Mausefrass. Zur Belehrung für Landleute und Land-Schullehrer. Fünfte (unveränderte) Auflage. [AND] Kleine Ermahnung zum Schutze nüslicher Thiere, als naturgemäßer Abwehr von Ungezieferschäden und Mäusefraß. [AND] Die Höhlenbrüter im Dienste der Land- und Forstwirthschaft als Bekämpfer der Ungezieferschäden. Anweisung zu ihrer Hegung, sowie zur Anfertigung und Anbringung der Nistkästen. Eine dringende Mahnung an alle Behörden, an Geistliche und Lehrer, sowie an alle Land- und Forstwirthe. Mit 1 Tafel Abbildungen von Nistkästen.

Berlin, Allgemeine Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (S. Wolff), 1863-1865. Four papers in one. 8vo (20.6 x 13.2 cm). 192 pp. [28; 88; 31; 45]; six lithographed plates [5; 0; 0; 1]. Late 19th-century pebbled cloth. Gilt bands and author's name on spine.

Godman, F. D.

Biologia Centrali-Americana. Zoology, Botany, and Archaeology. Edited by Frederick DuCane Godman, D.C.L., F.R.S., and Osbert Salvin, M.A., F.R.S. Introductory Volume.

London, The author, 1915. Large 4to (30.4 x 25.2 cm). Title page, viii, 149 pp.; photogravure portrait of the author, and his printed signature; photogravure of Osbert Salvin, with his signature, printed; eight double-sized maps, of which seven printed in colour. Publisher's dark blue buckram with gilt title on the spine.

Goethe, F.

Die Vogelinsel Mellum. Beiträge zur Monographie eines deutschen Seevogelschutzgebietes.

Berlin, R. Friedländer & Sohn, 1939. Large 4to (31.3 x 26.2 cm). 110 pp.; five plates, 50 text illustrations. Slightly later blue half cloth over blue marbled boards. Spine with gilt lines and title. Speckled edges. Original printed wrappers bound in.

Goss, N. S.

A Revised Catalogue of the Birds of Kansas. With descriptive notes of the nests and eggs of the birds known to breed in the State.

Topeka, KS, Kansas Publishing House: T. D. Thacher, 1886. 8vo (23.5 x 15.0 cm). v, 70 pp. Original brown cloth with gilt title on the front board.

Gould, J.

A hummingbird, the great sapphirewing, Pterophanes temmincki Gould. By John Gould.

London, the author, 1849 [REPRINT Mergus, Germany]. (64.1 x 49.5 cm). Full colour facsimile.

Gould, J.

A hummingbird, the refulgent woodnymph, Thalurania refulgens Gould. By John Gould.

London, the author, 1849 [REPRINT Mergus, Germany]. (64.1 x 49.5 cm). Full colour facsimile.

Gould, J.

A toucan, Andigena laminirostrisGould. By John Gould.

London, the author, 1851 [REPRINT Mergus, Germany]. (64.1 x 49.5 cm). Full colour facsimile.

Gould, J.

A toucan, Ramphastos cuvieriWagler. By John Gould.

London, the author, 1854 [REPRINT Mergus, Germany]. (64.1 x 49.5 cm). Full colour facsimile.

Gould, J.

A toucan, Ramphastos dicolorusGmelin. By John Gould.

London, [the author], 1854 [REPRINT Mergus, Germany]. (64.1 x 49.5 cm). Full colour facsimile.

Gould, J.

Eugenes spectabilis Lawr. [From: A monograph of the Trochilidae or family of humming-birds].

London, Henry Sotheran, 1885. Folio. Single lithographed and finely hand-coloured plate. In wooden frame. Visible print size: 35.0 x 50.0 cm; frame size: 55.2 x 71.0 cm.

Gould, J.

Handbook to the birds of Australia.

London, the author, 1865. Two volumes in two. Large 8vo (24.7 x 15.6 cm). viii, 636; [ii], 629 pp. One page of advertisements bound in at the end of volume 1. Original uniform green, blind stamped cloth with lavish gilt ornaments - including palm trees and birds-of-paradise - on covers and spines. Yellow endpapers. Original publication leaflet bound in the rear of volume I.

Gould, J.

The black-throated groove-bill Toucan, Aulacoramphus atrogularis. By John Gould.

London, the author, 1851 [REPRINT Mergus, Germany]. (64.1 x 49.5 cm). Full colour facsimile.

Gould, J.

The yellow-billed turaco, Musophaga macrorhyncha. By John Gould.

London, the author, 1851 [REPRINT Mergus, Germany]. (64.1 x 49.5 cm). Full colour facsimile.

Grandidier, G.

Titres et travaux scientifiques de M. Guillaume Grandidier.

Paris, Masson, 1905. 4to (27.6 x 22.3 cm). 74 pp.; numerous text illustrations. Original printed wrappers.

Gray, J. E.

Blackheaded pheasant. Female [From: Illustrations of Indian Zoology. Chiefly selected from the collection of Major-General Hardwicke. F.R.S.].

London, Treuttel, Wurtz, Treuttel, jun. and Richter, 1831-1832. Folio (46.3 x 33.1 cm). Fine lithographed plate with original hand-colouring.