Bryan nelson et al (1 Ergebnisse)

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First edition. Seven beautifully illustrated volumes of ornithological works published by Poyser, all in their original dust wrappers and most being first editions. The first edition to all volumes except 'Flight Identification', which is a third edition second impression, and 'Puffin' which is a first edition, second impression, and Gulls which is a second edition, second impression.A seven volume set.Illustrated with monochrome figures, and five hundred and forty-four monochrome plates to "Gulls", monochrome plates, and four colour plates to "Greenshanks", thirty-eight monochrome photographic vignettes to "Birds and Forestry", twenty-four monochrome plates to "Puffin", a monochrome frontispiece and many monochrome vignettes to "Man and Wildfowl", thirty-two monochrome plates to "Gannet", and monochrome vignettes and ninety-six monochrome plates to "Flight Identification". Collated, complete.In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper to all but 'Gannet', 'Greenshanks', and 'Flight identification', which are clipped.This set features seven volumes of ornithological works by a host of specialists in the field, from Poyser's natural history series. The volumes in this set cover a range of bird species such as gulls, greenshanks and puffins.This set includes "Gulls: A Guide to Identification" by P. J. Grant, "Greenshanks" by Desmond and Maimie Nethersole-Thompson, "Birds and Forestry" by Mark Avery and Roderick Leslie; "The Puffin" by M.P. Harris; "Man and Wildfowl" by Janet Kear, "The Gannet" by Bryan Nelson, "Flight Identification of European Raptors" by R. F. Porter and Ian Willis. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper to all but 'Gannet', 'Greenshanks', and 'Flight identification', which are clipped. Externally excellent with only minor bumping to the extremities to 'flight identification'. Bookplates belonging to 'Jonathan Bulmer' to the odd volume. The wraps are excellent with slight marks and slight sunning to 'The Gannet', and minimal creasing to the extremities. Internally firmly bound with clean and generally bright pages with only slight age toning to the odd volume. Fine. Philips Snow; Donald Watson; Keiith Brockie, et al. (illustrator). book.…