Monograph endangered parrots (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Limited Edition. Subscriber's edition signed to the title page by the author and illustrator. 356 pages. superb colour and black and white illustrations by Gracia Bennish; distribution maps to the rear. Original dust jacket fine. Hardback binding fine. Contents clean and tight, carefully signed to the title page by the author and illustrator. The limitation number line has been left blank. A fine copy. Size: Folio (24 x 35 cm). Bennish, Gracia (illustrator). Signed by Author & Illustrator. Book.…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. 1st 1989. Slightly better than very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. Tony Silva is America's leading authority on parrots in aviculture and in the wild. This is the Subscriber's Edition limited to 2000 copies numbered 201-2200. Large format. Black buckram cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Full page colour & b/w illustrations. xviii and 356 pages including index. Boards clean. Some foxing to text block else clean. Black pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed. A lovely copy overall. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Bennish, Gracia (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. xviii, 356 p. 34 cm. Colour paintings, b&w line drawings, maps at rear. Black cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Foxing to text block edges. Some threads hanging from lower spine. Inscribed by author. Acclaimed worldwide as a invaluable addition to parrot literature, this book covers, in depth, 51 of the rarest parrots in the world at the time of writing. Foreword by The Lord McAlpine of West Green. Bibliography, distribution maps, index of scientific and common names. Subscriber's edition of 2000 copies of which this is no. 892.…

A signed limited edition copy of Tony Silva's Monograph of Endangered Parrots. Before he was outed as the world's most prolific parrot smuggler, Silva was widely regarded as a conservationist of rare species, and was curator of the world's largest parrot collection at Loro Parque in Tenerife. First edition, limited issue, number 17 of 200 copies, signed by the author and illustrator; folio (34 x 23.5 cm); 42 plates after illustrations by Gracia Bennish; publisher's half red morocco, marbled boards, gilt spine, original maroon cloth slipcase, a fine copy. Trinity College, Hartford (Supplement) 44.…