Location: Saleroom 1 Date: 23rd January 2020 Starts: 2:00 pm
Online deadline: 23rd January 2020, 1:30 pm Contact: Robert Henshilwood
Bernard B. Riviere, three association copies comprising J. Cordeaux: 'Birds of the Humber District', 1872, B.B. Riviere ownership signature to FFEP, Henry Wemyss Feilden bookplate to front pastedown, original cloth gilt; E. Richmond Paton and Oliver G. Pike: 'The Birds of Ayrshire', 1929, 1st edition, signed and inscribed piece from the co-author E. Richmond Paton to B.B. Riviere attached to FFEP, original cloth gilt; H.E. Forrest: The Vertebrate Fauna of North Wales', 1907, 1st...
Sale Price: £110.00
Hugh S. Gladstone, 2 titles: 'The Birds of Dumfriesshire', London, Witherby, 1910, 1st edition, copy of the Ornithologist William Eagle Clarke, inscribed to him by the author to FFEP and with his bookplate, plus some other relevant letters and material loosely inserted, contemporary cloth gilt; 'A catalogue of the Vertebrate Fauna of Dumfriesshire', Dumfires, J. Maxwell, 1912, signed by author verso of title page, contemporary cloth gilt (2)
Sale Price: £75.00
George Muirhead: 'The Birds of Berwickshire', Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1889-1895, 1st edition, 2 volumes, Autograph Letter Signed from author to Jane Barwell Carter tipped in at front of volume I, also with her bookplates attached to front pastedowns, uniform original cloth gilt
Sale Price: £65.00
William Borrer: 'The Birds of Sussex', London, 1891, author's inscribed presentation label to Reverend R.N. Dennis, Ornithologist and Naturalist, to front pastedown, plus bookplate of John Henry Gurney Jnr, 6 coloured plates + folding map as called for, original cloth gilt, together with Mullens and Ticehurst: 'Notes on sussex Ornithology, Being Extracts from the Diaries (1845-1869) of Robert Nathaniel Dennis (Sometime Rector of East Blatchington)', London, Witherby, 1925, original printed wraps (2)
Sale Price: £50.00
John Gould: 'An Introduction to the Birds of Great Britain', London, for the author, 1873, inscribed by Gould to H.W. Freeland on title page, 135pp + 14pp list of subscribers and 4pp prospectus, original blindstamped cloth gilt. Scarce
Sale Price: £170.00
W. Henry Dobie: 'Birds of West Cheshire, Denbighshire, and Flintshire', 1893, Part IV Proceedings of the Chester Society of Natural Science and Literature, 282-352p, folding map as called for, inscribed by author ''With the writer's kind regards'' to FFEP, original cloth gilt
CJ Cornish, 2 titles: 'Wild England of To-day and the Wild Life in it', London, Seeley & Co, 1895, armorial bookplate of Richard Meinertzhagen (1878-1967), British Ornithologist, Soldier and Intelligence Officer, to front pastedown; 'Animals at work and Play their Activities and Emotions', London, Seeley, 1896, each original pictorial cloth gilt (2)
Sale Price: £30.00
Charles Dixon, 12 titles, comprising: 'The Migration of British Birds', 1895, 1st edition, ownership signature/inscription of H.N. Pashley, bird man of Norfolk, to FFEP; 'Among the Birds in Northern Shires', Autograph Note laid down FFEP to Arthur Gilbertson from ''H.C.'', probably Henry Candler (1864-1937) of Harleston, Mountaineer, Naturalist and author, with some relevant material loosely inserted; 'Our Favourite Song Birds', 1897; Stray Feather from Many Birds', 1890; 'Our Rarer Birds', 1888; 'The Bird-Life of London';...
Sale Price: £130.00
H.A. Macpherson: 'A Vertebrate Fauna of Lakeland: including Cumberland and Westmorland with Lancashire north of the sands', Edinburgh, 1892, 1st edition, 2 Autograph Letters Signed by Macpherson loosely inserted, contemporary cloth gilt
Sale Price: £40.00
Henry L. Saxby: 'The Birds of Shetland', Edinburgh & London, 1874, 1st edition, Autograph Letter Signed from H.L. Saxby to Robert Gray (Ornithologist and Bird author) loosely inserted with later typed transcript and other relevant typed info, plus ownership signature of bird author and Ornithologist A.W.M. Clark Kennedy to verso FFEP, 8 tinted litho plates as called for, original cloth gilt
Robert Gray: 'The Birds of the West of Scotland including the Outer Hebrides', Glasgow, 1871, 1st edition, two Typed Letters Signed from John L. Campbell, Isle of Canna, loosely inserted, 14 litho plates as called for, original pictorial cloth gilt
Sale Price: £38.00
A.H. Evans, 2 titles: 'A Fauna of the Tweed Area', Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1911, 1st edition, various associations with the author and illustrator including inscription to W.H. Mullens; tipped in ALS from J.A. Harvie-Brown to W.H. Mullens; tipped in ALS from J.A. Harvie-Brown to W.H.M.; two loose AL'sS from Maisie Pedder (daughter of John Pedder, illustrator of 'Fauna of Tweed Area', plus some relevant typed material loosely inserted, original cloth gilt; 'Birds', London, Macmillan, 1899,...
Richard M. Barrington: 'The Migration of Birds as observed at Irish lighthouses and lightships', London, R.H. Porter; Dublin, Edward Ponsonby, [1900], 1st edition, folding map frontis, the copy of J. Lewis Bonhote, English Ornithologist, with his signature and dated 1900 to half title and his bookplate to front pastedown, plus further ownership signature of B.B Riviere to half title dated 1923, original cloth gilt (spine faded), top edge gilt. Scarce
Sale Price: £320.00
Lord Lilford: 'Notes on the Birds of Northamptonshire and Neighbourhood', illustrated Archibald Thorburn & GE Lodge, London, RH Porter, 1895, 2 volumes, 20 full page photogravure plates + large folding map on linen + numerous black and white illustrations in text as called for, original cloth gilt, top edges gilt (2)
Lord Lilford: 'Notes on the Birds of Northamptonshire and Neighbourhood', London, R.H. Porter, 1893, ''for private circulation only'', signed and inscribed presentation copy to bird artist Archibald Thorburn ''Archibald Thorburn with kindest regards of the writer of [printed half title] Lilford aug 1893'', plus [4]pp ALS from Lilford to unknown recipient dated January 17 1894, on Lilford Hall, Oundle headed paper, loosely inserted, original cloth gilt, top edge gilt
Sale Price: £190.00
Lord Lilford: 'Notes on the Birds of Northamptonshire and Neighbourhood', London, Taylor & Francis, inscribed by author inside front cover ''Lilford Working Copy Nov. 83'', interleaved with numerous manuscript pen and ink annotations throughout by author, imprint at foot of title page '1880 83.' crossed out by author and with his manuscript pen and ink date beneath ''1880-1893'', original cloth gilt; Lord Lilford: 'Notes on the Ornithology of Northamptonshire 1879-1886', London, Porter, 1886, reprinted from...
Sale Price: £550.00
