delacour scott (13 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 3rd printing. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright with no markings, 232pp with 23 colour plates. Good DJ with some edge wear and creasing.

1st edn 1st printing. 4to. Original gilt decorated blue cloth (a little rubbed at edges - otherwise VG), no dustwrapper. Pp. 232, iIlus with 24 coloured plates by Peter Scott and distribution maps (endpapers lightly spoted; no inscriptions).

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. pp.284 with 15 col. plates, line drawings & dist. maps. Large 8vo. Spotting to fore-edges of text block o/w. a fine hardback in vg. dw. Loosely inserted is a Times newspaper obituary of Dr. Jean Delacour. The first of a series of books whose aim was to provide a synthesis of all that that was known of the waterfowl of the world at the time.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. pp.232 with 23 col. plates, line drawings & dist. maps. Large 8vo. Some spotting to fore-edges of text block and endpapers o/w. a fine hardback in thor. vg. dw. The second of three volumes covering the waterfowl of the world and illustrated by Peter Scott.

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 3rd imp. 23 col. plates, maps., pp.232.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Worn. 1st. 15 col. plates, maps.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Scott, Peter (illustrator). 1st Edition. Book - very good, dust jacket - good (wear- tears, minor loss, fraying). Four volume set 1965-1964 (all first editions). HEAVY (4.41 kg) - extra postage will be required.

Couverture rigide. Zustand: Bon état. Relié. En anglais. 4 volumes. Petit in-4 25,5 x 19 cm. Reliures de l'éditeur pleine toile beige. 284 - 232 - 270 - 388 pp., 66 planches en couleurs hors-texte, 108 cartes dans le texte. Exemplaires en très bon état. Bon état d'occasion. Importante étude sur le gibier d'eau, canards, oies etc. Volume 1 : The Magpie Goose, Whistling Ducks, Swans abd Geese, Sheldgeese and Shelducks. - V. 2 : The Dabbling Ducks ; V. 3 : Eiders, Pochards, Perching Ducks ; Scoters, Golden-Eyes and Mergansers, Stiff-tailed Ducks. - V. 4 : General Habits, The Reproductive Cycle Ecology, Distribution and Species Relationships, Fowling, Conservations and Management, aviculture, Domestic Waterfowl, The Anntomy of Waterfowl, Fossil Anseriformes, Corrections and Addictions.

Hardcover. Zustand: VG+. 5th Printing. Hardback in Very Good+ condition with Very Good+ dust jacket. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Complete 4 volume set. With sixteen plates in colour by Peter Scott and thirty-three distribution maps. . * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided *.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Country Life 1974 reprints. Pages clean and bright, bindings firm, minor shelf wear to covers and slip case, in protective sleeves. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Uniform matching hard back binding in publisher's original Dorset cream buckram cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spines, gilt borders to the front covers, nutmeg polished page edges. Quarto 10'' x 7½''. Contains 1150 printed pages of text with 66 colour plates by Peter Scott, distribution maps throughout the four volumes. Fine condition books in Fine condition glassine dust wrappers in Very Good duck illustrated open-fronted slip case with light soiling to the covers. Heavy set, 5 kg. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0600434613 ORNITHOLOGY.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Peter Scott (illustrator). Country Life, 1954 - 1964. Four volume set. Vol. 1, third impression, Vol. 2, second impression, Vol. 3, second impression, Vol. 4, first printing. Hard Cover, blue cloth boards with gilt titles and decoration. Dust jackets have moderate shelfwear, small tears at edges, more at tops of spines. Covers are in beautiful condition, very slight shelfwear on bottom edges. Mild foxing on endpapers, otherwise pages are clean, bright and unmarked. Bindings are tight, hinges are perfect. Numerous full-page colour plates by Peter Scott. Very nice set.

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Peter Scott (illustrator). First edition. A four volume set of Jean Delacour's illustrated works on waterfowls in their original dust wrappers, with two volumes being first editions. Four volume set. Complete in four.The first edition for volumes 'Three and Four'.In the original publishers blue cloth with gilt birds to the front and with the original unclipped dust wrappers.Illustrated by Peter Scott with frontispieces, maps, full page monochrome illustrations, vignettes and 19 full colour plates to 'volume three', five to 'volume four', twenty three to 'volume two' and fifteen to 'volume one'. Collated complete.This work was written by Jean Delacour, one of the most widely travelled and foremost ornithologists from this time period. This four volume set provides a comprehensive work on waterfowl, covering many species and topics. The works are beautifully illustrated by Peter Scott, and artist with a specialist in painting birds with training in ornithology. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrappers. Externally excellent with slight fading to the spines, heaviest to 'Volume Four' and very minimal bumping to the extremities of the boards to 'Volume Three'. The wraps are generally smart with fading to the spine to 'Volume One', the odd closed tear to the extremities and the odd chip to all but 'Volume Two', marks, slight shelf wear and the odd minor spot to the rear to 'Volume One'. Slight spotting to the verso to all but 'Volume Two'. Internally firmly bound with clean and bright pages with the odd minor spot only to 'Volume One'. The odd spot to the fore edge to volumes 'One and Four'. Near Fine. book.