Brasilia: Eletronorte. Filled with color drawings of 500 Brazilian birds. 251pp., folio, pictorial boards; covers slightly bowed, lacks accompanying CD. Brasilia: Eletronorte, no date, circa 2000. A very good copy, internally clean. More

London: William Innys, 1731. Engraving with hand coloring. Measures 11 1/4" x 9". Engraving from "A Natural History of Birds: Illustrated with a Hundred and four Copper Plates, Engraven from the Life, Published by the author Eleazer Albin, and carefully colour'd by his Daughter and Himself, from the Originals, drawn from the live Birds." The beautifully hand colored print depicts a species of Toucan believed to be native to Brazil, with a black head and wings, a yellow breast, and..... More

London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1950. With contributions by James Andrews, M.C., M.B., T. Clifford Bland, Robert Blockey, Robin Farmiloe, Robin Harrison, John Inge, Christopher Lee-Elliott, Alastair McArthur, Douglas Service, and Michael Shephard. 63 illustrations. 352pp. 8vo, two-toned cloth. London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, (1950). Bumped corner, but still a near fine copy. Volume 29 of The Lonsdale Library of Sports, Games & Pastime. Founded by The Right Hon. The Earl of Lonsdale, K.G., G.C.V.O., D.L.... More

Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen. Octavo bird print. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Page measures 10 x 6 1/4 inches. Sometimes called snakebird, darter, American darter, or water turkey. It is a water bird of the warmer parts of the Americas. The word anhinga comes from the Brazilian Tupi language and means devil bird or snake bird. The origin of the name snakebird is apparent when swimming : only the colored neck appears above water so the bird looks like a snake..... More

Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen. Octavo bird print. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Page measures 6 1/4" x 9 7/8" Hand colored lithograph depicting a male Greenshank, with a view of St. Augustine, Florida and the Spanish fort in the background. From the First Royal Octavo edition, circa 1842. John James Audubon (1785-1851) was an American naturalist, painter and ornithologist who did extensive field work studying birds before painting them. Please visit our gallery for more Audubon prints... More

Japan: Abbeville Press, 1985. Elephant folio bird print. Color offset lithograph. Page measures 26.5" x 39.5". Beautiful print of a turkey from second facsimile edition. This edition, which was published from the original plates 135 years after their creation, recreates the entire set of 435 images in their original double elephant folio format. Published in conjunction with the Audubon Society, the edition commemorates the two hundredth birthday of John James Audubon. Paper bears the authenticating watermark. Audubon (1785-1851) was an..... More

Amsterdam: 1971. Elephant folio bird print. Color offset lithograph. Page measures 39.5" x 26.5". Beautiful print of warblers from first facsimile edition. This edition, which was published from the original plates 135 years after their creation, recreates the entire set of 435 images in their original double elephant folio format. The model for these images was an original set of Havell engravings, provided by Teyler's Museum in Haarlem, Holland. Paper bears the authenticating watermark. Audubon (1785-1851) was an American naturalist..... More

Boston: Little Brown, 1884. 2 volumes. With hundreds of woodcut text illustrations, some hand-colored. 537 pages and 562 pages. Thick 4to, original gilt-lettered green cloth, t.e.g.; two sections of front edge of Volume I heavily abraded, only slightly effecting the margins of a few pages, hinges of volume II just starting. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company1884. First Edition. Internally near fine, a very good set. Baird, "described what he saw and in such fashion that no subsequent observer had any..... More

Paris: Chez Panckoucke, 1792. Many black and white engravings. Short 4to. Plates 23-230, cropped to plate line. No text. Leather spine labels, marbled boards, spines rubbed. Paris: Panckoucke, 1782. In very good condition, with toning and scattered foxing to pages. Scarce. More

Newcastle: Charles Henry Cook, 1832. 2 volumes. Illustrated with hundreds of in-text engravings. xl, 386; xxii, 424pp. Bound in full contemporary brown calf with red and black spine labels (leather rubbed but sound and attractive; light scattered foxing). Newcastle: Printed by Charles Henry Cook, for R.E. Bewick, 1832. Very good(+). Volume 1 - Land Birds. Volume 2 - Water Birds. Bewick's unsurpassed wood-engravings are considered to have been the high-water mark of his artistic career. DNB. More

Toronto: George J. McLeod, 1936. Illustrated in color and in black and white. 303 pages. Tall 8vo, two toned blue cloth with a paper spine label. Toronto: George J. McLeod, (1936). Signed on the flyleaf by Bull. Very good(+). More

New York: Winchester Press, 1976. Illustrated with over 700 photographs, including 44 in color. 254 pages. 4to, cloth, d.w. (lightly chipped at head of spine). New York: Winchester Press, (1976). Very good. More

New York: Christian Dior Parfums. Illustrated with striking glossy color photographs of women in feathered headpieces on facing pages with antique bird prints. Slim square 4to, glossy black printed wrappers. New York: Christian Dior Parfums, (no date, 1988). A near fine copy of this scarce catalogue. Catalogue created by Tyen, Artistic Directo rfor Parfums Cchristian Dior. He created "Correspondance" in honor of the exhibition "Splendid Plumage" at the New York Public Library. Christian Dior held a dinner at the New..... More