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Published by Hutchinson & Co, 1903
Seller: Dr Martin Hemingway (Books), Leeds, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Blue cloth with title and illustration in gilt to front. Title etc in gilt to spine. Bumping and slight wear on corners and spine ends. Some separation of paper joining cover and end papers, but no loosening. White mark on front cover. A clean tight copy. The collected papers of someone with a genuine reputation in the field. Illustrations by Thorburn who had worked with Lilford from the start of his career.
Published by Hutchinson, 1903
Seller: Booklore ., Holt, NORFO, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Large octavo. 312 pages. Illustrated. Very good condition indeed in the original blue cloth boards. The book is now loosely protected in an acetate jacket. A very little light spotting, mostly to preliminary leaves. No names or inscriptions. Top edge gilt.
Published by Published by Hutchinson & Co, London, 1903
First Edition
, xviii, 312 pages, 13 black and white plates including frontispiece First Edition , top and tail of spine worn, corners bumped, library label to front board, crayoned initials to front free endpaper, pages and plates clean, good condition , blue cloth with gilt title and illustration to front board and gilt titles to spine , arge octavo, 26 cm x 19.5 cm Hardback ISBN:
Published by Hutchinson & Co., 1903
Seller: Trumpington Fine Books Limited, Gilmilnscroft, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
First Edition
Blue Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 312pp. 1903. First edition. A very good, clean, tight copy. Gilt embossed title to the spine and to the front board with a vignette of a bird of prey to the front board. Upper edge gilt. Edited by A. Trevor-Battye and illustrated by Archibald Thorburn - twelve plates in all. In addition, there is a tissue-guarded frontispiece - photogravure of the author. Original publisher's blue buckram. One stain mark to the rear board and a couple of small rub marks to the cloth along the edge of the spine. Former owner's ink name inscription to the front endpaper - partially rubbed out. Light splitting to the front inner hinge. A very good, well preserved copy.
Published by Hutchinson & Co., London, 1903
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Archibald Thornburn (illustrator). First edition. The bright first edition of this posthumous ornithological study by Thomas Powys, 4th Baron Lilford, complete with numerous plates. The first edition of this work. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twelve further full page plates, of which ten are illustrative of the birds in the collection at Lilford Hall. Collated, complete.Containing a collection of writings, formal and informal, on ornithology by Thomas Littleton Powys, including papers contributed upon falconry and otter hunting.Thomas Powys, 4th Baron Lilford, was a British aristocrat and ornithologist, known for his extensive collection of birds maintained in the grounds of Lilford Hall. His aviaries featured birds from all over the world, including rheas,kiwis,pink-headed ducks and free-flyinglammergeiers. He was responsible for the introduction the little owl into England in the late nineteenth century.Edited by Aubyn Trebor-Battye. Illustrated by Archibald Thornburn.Pictorial bookplate from J. M. McWilliams to front pastedown. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally smart with minor shelf wear only, bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities of boards. Internally, firmly bound. Light minor spotting to fore edge not affecting pages that remain bright and clean. Very Good. book.
Published by Hutchinson & Co, Ldn, 1903
Seller: Larry W Price Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 312 pp.+ 13 Photo Plts, Marbled e.p., Nicely Bound in Brn Half Leather, Gilt title & Design on Ribbed Spine, TEG, VG & Attractive, 1st Ed (Falconry & Otter Hunting).
Published by R. H. Porter, London, 1893
Seller: LOE BOOKS, Launceston, United Kingdom
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. pp; viii, 448. Extracted from the Journal of the Northamptonshire Natural History Society 1880-1893. For private circulation limited to 60. Original maroon cloth with gilt lettering to the spine, bevelled edges, a little general wear and marking (please see image). Top edge gilt. Contents clean and tight, paper bright and fresh, attractive patterned endpapers, unmarked, obituary to G.E. Lodge lightly tipped onto the front pastedown, inscribed to "P. H. Burroughes with best love of the writer of . Lilford Oct. 1893.", on the reverse of the front free endpaper is a further name and date 1898 and stamp, Devon Bird Watching & Preservation Society Library. A scarce signed copy by Lilford of the works that he privately circulated before publishing the two volume, illustrated edition of the NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. Very Scarce publication with the added interest of Lilford's signature. Size: 8vo. Inscribed By the Author. Book.
Published by London, Hutchinson & Co., 1903., 1903
Seller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Austria
First Edition
4to. XVII, (1), 312 pp. Title-page printed in red and black. With engraved frontispiece and 12 plates. Contemporary full cloth with gilt hawk on front cover, giltstamped title to cover and spine. First edition. - Posthumously published work of natural history by the distinguished British ornithologist Lord Lilford (1833-96), whose aviaries at Lilford Hall, installed in the 1890s, aroused the envy of field ornithologists of the day and were especially noted for the collection of birds of prey. Edited by his friend, the traveller, naturalist and writer Aubyn Bernard Rochfort Trevor-Battye (1855-1922), it includes descriptions of the Lilford Hall premises, its ponds, paddocks, and aviaries, as well as notes on otter hunting, and an introduction to falconry written by Reverend Gage Earle Freeman, which, in matters of introducing the sport, is regarded "the best short essay ever written" (Barber). It features quotations from Lilford's earlier publications, as well as private letters, and a speech he gave in his role as President of the British Ornithologists' Union in February 1894, as well as some sections from the journal Lilford kept during his travels in the Mediterranean in 1874, 1878-79, and 1882. In addition, the work comprises an appendix drawing from Lilford's notes on everyday events in his aviaries, stating for example that his "English raven rolls and enjoys himself in the snow" (p. 272), as well as a complete list of his publications. The illustrations, carried out by the Scottish painter Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935), are studies of individual birds in the Lilford aviaries, showing, inter alia, Lämmergeier, cranes, a golden eagle in its nest, a trained goshawk sitting on a falconer's hand, two ruffs fighting, flamingoes, and a Greenland falcon. The frontispiece depicts Lilford in his study with a dead falcon lying on his desk as well as a live song bird sitting on his backrest. - Small tears to spine; two small holes in the hinges; corners slightly bumped. Interior with occasional light brownstaining. Handwritten ownership of Charles Henry Stanley Garton (b. 1920), dated Kingswood, 16 January 1942, to front pastedown. - Barber 10. Ballance, Birds in Counties 233. OCLC 314718094. Not in Harting, Schwerdt.