Ornithology
114 items found
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.
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Galerie ornithologique ou collection d'oiseaux d'Europe. Décrits par Alcide d'Orbigny, dessinés d'après nature par Thiolat & Delarue. [et E. Traviès].
Paris, Lamy, [1836-1839]. Oblong folio (22.4 x 31.4 cm). 92 [of 124] finely lithographed and hand-coloured plates. Contemporary full diced russia. Spine with gilt ornamental cartouche and title; boards with gilt borders and gilt floral cornerpieces. Patterned endpapers. All edges gilt.
Read moreSalvin, F. H. and W. Brodrick
Falconry in the British Isles.
London, John van Voorst, 1855. 4to (27.5 x 18.0 cm). vii, 147 pp.; 24 chromolithographed plates (XI and XIII acting as frontispieces) with fine hand-colouring. Early 20th-century dark green half morocco over linen boards. Spine with five raised bands; compartments with gilt ornithological vignettes and title. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Original embossed limp cloth boards with large gilt vignette and gilt on the front board, bound in the rear.
Read moreSchaeffer, J. C.
Elementa ornithologica iconibus vivis coloribus expressis illustrata.
Regensburg, Weiß, 1774. 4to (25.7 x 21.3 cm). Title with large copper-engraved allegorical vignette; [vi], [xxxviii], [v] pp.; 70 finely engraved and contemporary hand-coloured plates with unnumbered explanatory text leaves. Contemporary black marbled boards. Spine with seven gilt lines. Edges red.
Read morePallas, P. S.
Dierkundig mengelwerk, in het welke de nieuwe of nog duistere zoorten van dieren door naauwkeurige afbeeldingen, beschryvingen en verhandelingen opgehelderd worden. In het Latyn beschreeven door den heer P. S. Pallas ... vertaald en met aanmerkingen voorzien door P. Boddaert M.D. VI. Stukken. Met plaaten.
Utrecht, Abraham van Paddenburg en J. Van Schoonhoven, 1767-1770. 4to (26.6 x 21.0 cm) [board size 27.5 x 22.0 cm]. General title in red and black, dated 1770; viii, 195, [ii] pp.; ten fine, contemporary hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary polished half calf over speckled boards. Spine with triple gilt lines and grained tan morocco label with gilt title.
Read moreGoethe, 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.
Read moreRiesenthal, O. von
Die Raubvögel Deutschlands und des angrenzenden Mitteleuropas. Darstellung und Beschreibung der in Deutschland und den benachbarten Ländern von Mitteleuropa vorkommenden Raubvögel. 2. Auflage der Tafeln mit kurzem text [Atlas].
Cassel, Theodor Fischer, 1894. Folio (39.5 x 29.3 cm). Title page, [iii], 56 pp.; 60 chromolithographed plates. Contemporary quarter burgundy linen over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title.
Read moreGloger, 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.
Read moreVosmaer, A.
Description de deux petits alcyons des Indes Orientales, très-beaux, a queuë courte, ayant deux doigts devant, & un derrière; admirable, n'ayant presque point de queuë, pourû de deux doigts de devant, & de deux derrière; lesquels se conservent dans le cabinet de son altesse sérénissime monseigneur le prince d'Orange et de Nassau, Stadhouder héréditaire, gouverneur, capitaine général et admiral des Provinces-Unies des Pais-Bas, &c. &c. &c.
Amsterdam, Pierre Meijer, 1768. 4to (27.1 x 21.0 cm). Title page, seven pp.; text vignette, one finely engraved plate in contemporary hand-colouring.
Read moreNuyens, A.
De vogelwereld. Handboek voor liefhebbers van kamer- en parkvogels. Met driehonderd afbeeldingen in chromolithographie.
Groningen, J. B. Wolters, 1886. Folio (36.8 x 27.3 cm). Two title pages, 274 [xvi, 156; (ii), 100] pp.; 48 [26; 22] large chromolithographed plates. Publisher's decorative full cloth with gilt and black embossing on the front board and spine; large pictorial panel of an Arcadian landscape with a peacock and swans on the front board, and gilt title on the spine. Bevelled edges. Iridescent silk endpapers. All edges gilt.
Read moreSchlegel, H.
De vogels van Nederland. Tweede herziene druk. Eerste deel - Tweede deel. [Complete].
Amsterdam, G. L. Funke, 1878. 8vo (21.9 x 14.5 cm). Half-title, title page, lxxi, 135 pp.; second half-title and title, ii, 136 pp., for a total of 344 pp.; half-title to the plates; 35 chromolithographed plates; half-title to "tafereelen" (views) 18 chromolithographed and tinted lithographed plates, for a total of 53 plates. Contemporary quarter morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands; compartments with gilt bird vignettes and gilt title. Blueish-grey endpapers. Sprinkled edges.
Read moreHoogerwerf, A.
De avifauna van Tjibodas en omgeving, inclusief het natuurmonument Tjibodas-Gn. Gede (West Java). [AND] De avifauna van de Plantentuin te Buitenzorg (Java).
[The Netherlands], Limosa, 1950. 8vo (23.2 x 15.6 cm). Title page, 280 pp., 21 full colour plates. Contemporary black grained leatherette over marbled boards. Spine with gilt bands and title
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Das Thier in der decorativen Kunst. I. Serie. Die Wasserthiere [AND] II. Serie. Vögel. [Complete]. Together with two amazing original watercolours (of plates 21 and 25) drawn by the artist himself.
Wien, Gerlach & Schenk, 1896. Two large folio portfolios (57.9 x 44.3 cm) with one page of text, one illustrated title page and 29 stunning chromolithographed plates showing animals in a fabulous Art Nouveau style. Each original quarter linen portfolios has an impressive dragon on front, with the title artistically arranged around it [AND] Two original watercolours by Seder, being the originals examples for plates 21 and 25.
Read moreKeulemans, J. G.
Collection of 22 bird prints from Henry Eeles Dresser's A history of the birds of Europe, including all the species inhabiting the western Palaearctic region.
[London, H. E. Dresser, ca. 1880]. 22 Single leaves. 4to (ca. 31.8 x 23.1 cm). In fine lithography with very detailed and accurate hand-colouring.
Read moreJonston, J. [AND] N. Robert [P. J. Buc'hoz (ed.)]
Collection d'oiseaux les plus rares, gravés et dessinés d'après nature, pour servir d'intelligence a l'histoire naturelle et raisonnée des differens oiseaux qui habite le globe. Contenant leurs noms en différentes langues d'Europe, leurs descriptions, les couleurs de leurs plumages, leurs dimensions, le temps de leur ponte, la structure de leurs nids, la grosseur de leurs oeufs, leurs charactère, & enfin tous les usages pour lesquels on peut les employer, tant pour la médecine que pour l'économie domestique. Traduite du Latin de Jonston, considérablement augmentée, & mise à la portée d'un chacun. De laquelle on a fait précéder l'histoire particulière des oiseaux de la Ménagerie du Roi, peints d'après nature par le celébre Robert, & gravés par lui-même. Le tout orné de quatre-vingt-cinq planches; qui renferment près de neuf cens especes différentes & divisé en trois parties, dont la premiere traite des oiseaux de la Ménagerie Royale, la seconde & la troisieme, sont l'ouvrage & les planches même Jonston, dont le mérite est très-connu. Pour servir du suite à l'Histoire des Insectes & Plantes de Madamoiselle de Merian.
Paris, Desnos, 1772. Folio (49.5 x 33.0 cm). Engraved, hand-coloured frontispiece, letterpress title with wood-engraved vignette; 64 pp.; double suite of 170 engraved plates, of which half originally hand-coloured, and the other half plain. Contemporary full calf. Spine with six raised, gilt-ornamented bands, compartments rich gilt with floral vignettes and corner pieces, and two red morocco labels with gilt title. Boards with triple-gilt borders, double gilt-lined edges and gilt zig-zag inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.
Read moreSwagers, E.
Collection complète des oiseaux d'Europe, dessinés et coloriés d'après nature.
Amiens, [the author, 1833]. Folio (30.7 x 23.0 cm). 11 unnumbered printed text sheets; 87 (of 88) lithographed plates in fine, original hand-colouring. Original printed wrappers. Preserved in brown cloth clambox (32.5 x 25.3 x 3.6 cm). "Spine" with red morocco label with gilt title.
Read moreSharpe, R. B. and W. R. Ogilvie-Grant
Catalogue of the birds in the collection of the British Museum. Volume XXVI [26]. Catalogue of the Plataleae, Herodiones, Steganopodes, Pygopodes, Alcae and Impennes in the Collection of the British Museum. Plataleae (Ibises and spoonbills) and Herodiones (Herons and storks) by R. Bowlder Sharpe Steganopodes (Cormorants, gannets, frigate-birds, tropic-birds, and pelicans), Pygopodes (divers and grebes), Alcae (Auks), and Impennes (Penguins), by W. R. Ogilvie-Grant.
London, the Trustees of the British Museum, 1898. 8vo (22.1 x 14.4 cm). xvii, 688 20 pp.; 14 chromolithographed plates by Smit and Keulemans (numbered I, IA-IC, II, IIA, III-V, VA-VB, VI-VIII). Original blind stamped cloth with gilt title on the spine.
Read moreHargitt, E.
Catalogue of the birds in the collection of the British Museum. Volume XVIII [18]. Catalogue of the Picariae in the Collection of the British Museum. Scansores, containing the family Picidae.
London, the Trustees of the British Museum, 1890. 8vo (22.1 x 14.4 cm). xv, 598, 8 pp.; 15 chromolithographed plates by Peter Smit. Original blind stamped cloth with gilt title on the spine.
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