Partridges by Potts: Signed (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Nr Fine. 1st Edition. A fine unused, unblemished book, the dust-jacket has a small near-invisible abrasion on the front otherwise fine. Signed by the Author on the Title Page. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2012). 2012 1st edition - De Luxe issue. 8vo (157 x 224mm). Ppxii,465 + 2pp list of NN titles. Colour photographs, distribution maps, charts, 57 page bibliography. Fully bound in brown leather, spine titled in gilt. Limited to 50 copies, signed & numbered by the author. Fine new copy in dust-wrapper & brown cloth slip-case. Dust-wrapper signed by the artist, Robert Gillmor. "Globally, there are at least 45 species of game bird that have the word partridge in their name, but in this book G. R. Potts devotes himself to the Grey, Red-legged and Chukar Partridges, with particular emphasis on the Grey Partridge due to its well-known decline in Britain. In this groundbreaking addition to the New Naturalist series, Potts explores how mankind and partridges have evolved together, both ultimately dependent on grasslands rather than forests. For thousands of years, both ate grass seeds and this continued until cereals largely replaced them. Hundreds of species of plant and insect that partridges and other birds eat thrived on farms for thousands of years until the dawn of the pesticides era. Since then the long decline in partridge abundance has been a barometer for biodiversity over vast swathes of the Northern Hemisphere. Highlighting the positive example of the Norfolk Estate in the Sussex Study area, Potts investigates how both Grey and Red-legged Partridge numbers have been increased, flourishing in a highly productive and profitable system of farming and an oasis in what has often looked and sounded like a desert. In a small corner of England, farmland wildlife is able to thrive much as it did before pesticides were introduced." This is a superb book, interesting not only for those interested in the partridge, but for anyone even slightly interested in ecology, agriculture and birds. A model for any natural history monograph. PREVIOUS PRICE GBP 250.00.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. A fine limited edition copy signed by the author to a plate tipped in to the front free end paper, this is one of limited edition of 50 issues with a dust jacket signed by Robert Gilmore. Full leather binding, gilt stamped lettering to the spine, blind stamped NN monogram to the front board; all edges gilt. Brown cloth covered slipcase. Colour plates and diagrams throughout. A new limited edition copy signed by the author. [Collecting the New Naturalists NNL121A] Size: 8vo. Book.…

Hardcover in Slipcase. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. One of a very small number of copies reserved exclusively for contributors and lettered. 50 numbered copies were made available for sale to subscribers. Full leather gilt with the New Naturalist monogram to the upper cover, two raised bands and gilt titles at the spine. pp. xi, 465, illustrated with colour photographs and diagrams. Tipped-in limitation plate to the front endpaper which is signed by the author and, in addition, the traditional New Naturalist dustjacket is provided and has been signed directly at the front flap by its artist and designer, Robert Gillmor. This copy is lettered "E" and was reserved for the late British botanist and New Naturalist series editor, Professor Richard G. West, with his printed name-plate fixed to the front paste-down. As New condition in slipcase. The dustjacket has a score-line down the spine and a further crease-line down the fore-edge but is otherwise (Near) Fine. Provenance: from the library of Professor Richard Gilbert West. Gillmor, Richard (Dustjacket) (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

THE DE LUXE EDITION, LIMITED TO 50 COPIES, THIS BEING NUMBER 40. BOUND IN FULL LEATHER WITH ALL EDGES GILT. SIGNED ON A TIPPED-IN LIMITATION PLATE BY THE AUTHOR AND ON THE INNER FLAP OF THE DUSTWRAPPER BY ROBERT GILLMOR, THE ARTIST FOR THE WRAPPER. A NEW COPY. VERY SCARCE.