Vella Gaffiero (24 results)

Condition: Very Good. 2010. Paperback. 8vo. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. HARDCOVER; this is NOT ex-library; several nicks along edges of dustjacket; otherwise book and contents are in near fine condition. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. 1st. Dust Jacket: Yes. Unclipped. External/Dust Jacket Condition: A small amount of loss to the front top right corner. Some closed tears at the top of the spine, the rear bottom edge and the front top edge, the spine is very slightly faded and a little grubby. Internal Condition: Excellent. Clean. The fold-out map at the back of the book is present. Author/Editor: Bannerman, D A & Vella-Gaffiero, J A. Publisher: Museums Department Valletta. Year: 1976. Edition: 1st. Binding: Hardcover. Illustrated: Yes, colour and B&W. Language: English. Page Count: 550. Keywords: Natural History. The book for sale is the one in the photo.

Condition: Very Good. 2010. Paperback. 8vo. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. illustrated in colour by Chloe E. Talbot Kelly, Frontispice by Donald Watson (illustrator). 1st Edition. Few marks on jacket, spine may be slightly faded.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo, i-xix, 550 pp, 22 colour plates by C E Talbot - Kelly, drawings by other artists including Charles Tunnicliffe and H Gronvold, folding map. An excellent copy in dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by Vella-gaffiero. Book vg, D/J good with fading to front and spine. Rubbing to edges of D/J with slight chipping to head and tail of spine and tear to top right corner of front. Signed.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Chloe E. Talbot Kelly (illustrator). This copy is in mint, unmarked condition bound in mauve cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dustwrapper is lightly sunned to the spine but still near fine condition International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. This work presents the first full description, supplemented by full colour illustrations, of the hundreds of different species of birds recorded in the Maltese Islands. In the process, the importand tole of the archipelago in bird migration between Europe and Africa across the Central Mediterranean is amply documented and interpreted. Ref LLL 6.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Profusely illustrated in colour and line drawing, the work is also intended to serve as a general handbook on central mediterranean ornithology, and should be of great interest to scientists.The Jacket is a a little worn.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. This work presents the first full description supplemented by illustrations, of the hundreds of different species of birds recorded in the Maltese Islands.The Jacket is worn around the edges.

Original publisher's dark-red paper-covered boards, gilt title spine, pictorial dustjacket, thick large 8vo: frontispiece, xxij, 550pp., 22 coloured page-large plateswith ca. 250 illustrations, bl.& wh. text-illustrations, large folding map at the rear, appendix, general bibliography, English index, scientific index, Malteseindex, Italian index. Very fine copy.,

Hardcover. Condition: Gut. 123 Ein umfassender Überblick über die Vogelwelt des maltesischen Archipels, illustriert durch detaillierte Darstellungen und wissenschaftliche Erläuterungen. Zustand: Einband mit stärkeren Gebrauchsspuren, Seiten geringfügig gebräunt, insgesamt GUTER Zustand. HC1-463-8/8-00728225 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1441.

pp.xix, 550 with 22 colour plates plus b/w. illus., and fold-out map. Large 8vo. Small address label. Fine hardback in thor. vg. to nr. fine dw. A very pleasing copy. The first full description of the hundreds of birds recorded in the Maltese Islands. Considers the important role the archipelago plays in bird migration between Europe and Africa. Artists include Charles Tunnicliffe, Donald Watson and more.

Condition: Bon état. fort vol. in-8, cartonnage de l'éditeur, jaquette illustrée, XIX-550 pp., dessins en noir et planches en couleurs hors-texte, index. Déchirures à la jaquette, sinon bon état général.

XIX, 550 S., 2 unpaginierte Seiten (Topographie des Vogels), 1 Faltkarte. O.Pp. mit OU.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). A beautifully illustrated study of the birds of the Maltese archipelago. Illustrated throughout with twenty-two colour plates, a fold-out to the rear, and many in-text illustrations. Collated complete. Includes details of the topography of a bird, various species, an appendix with a select bibliography. Written by David A. Bannerman, a British ornithologist and curator to the British Museum of Natural History from 1919 to 1952, and Joseph A. Vella-Gaffiero. With a foreword by Dom Mintoff, a Maltese Socialist politician, architect, and civil engineer, who served as Prime Minister of Malta from 1955 to 1958 and 1949 to 1984. In the original brown cloth binding. Externally, smart with light shelf wear to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper also smart with light shelf wear and the odd small closed tear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Very Good Indeed. book.

1ST EDITION.VERY GOOD HARDBACK WITH CHIPPED DUST WRAP. FOREWORD BY DOM FINTOFF, PRIME MINISTER OF MALTA. FULLY ILLUSTRATED BY VARIOUS ARTISTS INCLUDE C F TUNNICLIFFE AND DONALD WATSON.

VERY GOOD HARDBACK IN VERY GOOD PROTECTED DUSTWRAP. ILLUSTRATED IN COLOUR BY CHLOE E. TALBOT KELLY. FRONTISPIECE BY DONALD WATSON.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Chloe E. Talbot Kelly (illustrator). First Edition. A Vg First Edition in VG dustwrapper. Clean purple endpapers, Foreward by Dom Mintoff, X1X/550pp. Edited by Francis S. Mallia with colour Frontis by Donald Watson. Large collection of colour plates. Generally vg throughout.

pp.xix, 550 with 22 colour plates plus b/w. illus., and fold-out map. Large 8vo. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw. With inscription 'Autographed for Nowell Peach by the author, David A. Bannerman, January 1977'. The first full description of the hundreds of birds recorded in the Maltese Islands. Considers the important role the archipelago plays in bird migration between Europe and Africa. Artists include Charles Tunnicliffe, Donald Watson and more.

Bannerman, David A. (1886-1979). (1) Autograph letter signed to an unidentified correspondent. 4pp. on 2 sheets. N.p., n.d. [ca. 1976]. 211 x 148 mm. Small ink smear on last page. Laid into: (2) Bannerman and Joseph A. Vella-Gaffiero. Birds of the Maltese archipelago. Foreword by Dom Mintoff. xix, [3], 550pp. 22 plates, folding map, text illustrations. Valletta [Malta]: Museums Department, 1976. 230 x 155 mm. Original cloth, dust-jacket (slightly worn and soiled). Together 2 items. Very good to fine. An excellent letter from the noted British ornithologist, author of numerous definitive works on the birds of Europe, Africa and the Atlantic islands. The letter is laid into the above-listed First Edition copy of Bannerman's Birds of the Maltese Archipelago, a work that contains the first full description of the hundreds of different species of birds recorded in the Maltese islands and stresses the crucial role the Maltese archipelago plays in bird migration between Europe and Africa. Bannerman's letter bears no salutation but is complete, as the second leaf is numbered "2"; it was undoubtedly written to the recipient of this copy. The letter contains intriguing details about the book's publication and reception: "You may be interested in the photograph inside the cover of this volume [not present], which was sent to me by Francis Mallia, Director of Malta's museums. It shows Dom Mintoff [Prime Minister of Malta] reading the inscription which I wrote when he was presented with a copy of my book . . . "The foreword by Mintoff (the first he has ever written I am told) may also interest you. As a Vice-President of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (England), I had stressed in these pages the importance of more government protection for the migratory birds which pass through Malta en route to Africa to winter and receive abominable treatment at the hands of ignorant Maltese farmers. Mintoff has expressed his views-and my opinion-very forcefully in his foreword. This book which I was invited to write by some resident members of the Malta Ornithological Society for which they had raised a substantial sum to pay for the publication, among themselves, was finally take over as an official Museums Dept. publication & the entire cost of publication authorized by Dr. Cossar & Mintoff on behalf of Government . . . "The Secretary of the M.O.S. opposed the publication as he was secretly writing a book himself which he never divulged to me & which you all have. It's quite good in its way, but the jealousy displayed by the authors Saltana [sic] & Co. did them no credit. They even got a member to raise in their parliament why a "foreigner" (!) had been permitted to write a book on Malta's birds . . ." Dom Mintoff (1916-2012) was Prime Minister of Malta from 1971 to 1984. "Saltana" refers to Maltese ornithologist Joe Sultana (1939-2018), author of Guide to the Birds of Malta (1975). .

Valletta, 1976. Orig. full cloth. Part of wrappers pasted in. XIX,550 pp., 22 colourplates.

orig.boards. 22 color plates,folding map (illustrator). 23x16cm, xix,550,(24)pp Bookplate, small stain to side-page-edge,VG., dustwrapper.

Condition: Gut. Valletta 1976. 550 S. mit 22 farb. Taf. v. C. E. T. Kelly u. zahlr. Abb. Ln. mit Schutzumschl. NR / 7759 Mit Ausnahme von Direkt-Recycling Materialien erfolgt der Versand ohne Einsatz von Kunststoffen. Sprache: Deutsch.