A History of British Birds by Thomas Bewick, Used (115 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.

Softcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Creasing to spine,green card cvoers, some creasing to corners. Creasing to lower front cover.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Facsimile of the sixth edition of 1826, volume 2 only (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), xxii, 432pp. Text illustrations throughout. Original blue cloth, dustwrapper. Minor spotting to the top edge of the text block, else the book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition (dustwrapper price-clipped).

Condition: Good. 1910. No edition remarks. 431 pages. No dust jacket. Quarter bound blue leather with marbled paper covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. No slipcase. Pages are bright and clear with no visible markings. Binding throughout remains firm. Boards have light edge wear with minor corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine, with occasional markings overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Facsimile of the sixth edition. Vol. 1 in a dark green leather hardcover with silver titles to spine and vol. 2 in a blue leather hardcover with gilt titles to spine. Both vols. extensively illustrated in black and white. The books are in very good condition with just a trace of shelf-wear to the extremities of the covers. The bindings are tight. There is some foxing and dust damage to the top edge and very minor foxing to the other edges. The faces of the pages are clean and unmarked. The dust jackets are also very good with just very minor shelf-wear to the extremities. The front of the jacket to vol. 1 is lightly tanned.

Condition: Like New. Used - Like New. Volume 1. This is a reproduction of an out of print title. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Facsimile reproduction of famous book originally published in 1826 has lovely rich blue boards with gilt titles and illustration on spine, corners mildly bumped, a few pages folded over ever so slightly at bottom, edges mildly tanned with a few spots, pages are clean, binding is tight, lacks dust jacket. Dispatched from the UK same or next working day. NB: Due to the utter stupidity of Brexit, parcels sent to the EU may incur customs charges.

Yale University: R. Hunter Middleton, 1976. "This impression from the original engraved boxwood block, now in the collection of the Newberry Library in Chicago, has been taken by R. Hunter Middleton as a keepsake for guests at the Carl Purington Rollins Lectures on the Typographic Tradition, Yale University, April 1976. Printed on a sheet measuring about 8 x 10 inches, in a gray paper portfolio with a printed label on the front. Fine condition. Middleton was a type designer and art director; he also was a collector of Bewick, and gave a number of original Bewick engraved blocks to the Newberry Library. Number of copies is unknown.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. 406 pages. No dustjacket. Super B&W illustrations. Spine has become unglued from spine-covering but hardback binding still in one piece - will need repair. Wear with chips to spine-ends and boards' corners. Colour-fading to spine and some to edges of boards. Victorian colour bookplate to inside of front board. Page-edges browned but pages o./w clean and tidy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Book Description: Newcastle, 1832. Preface dated 1805. xxii + 424 pp. Hard covers. No dust-jacket. Half calf with marbled boards, rubbed and faded. Top of spine missing. Although it has I on the spine, this is Volume II. Very top corners of pages 186 to 300 rubbed down. Text block tight. The tailpieces deserve examination under a lens as the details are incredible. Contains the unexpurgated tailpieces. Extra shipping needed outside UK.

Hard. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Facsimile. Facsimile of the 6th edition. Pages clean and bright, small inscription on half-title page, boards and binding tidy, minimal shelf wear to dust jacket. Size: 8vo.

Hard Cover. Facsimile of the 1826 Sixth Edition, limited to 950 copies. Octavo, pp. [4], iii, [1], xliv, 382; [4], iii, [1], xxii, 432. Illustrated throughout with Bewick's woodcut illustrations of the birds, and head- and tail-pieces. Publishers' faux leather in dark green and royal blue respectively, with silver and gilt titles and vignettes to spines and wood-grain and marbled effect endpapers, in price-clipped pictorial dust-jackets. Boards bruised to lower edge and top edges a little dusty (both volumes) otherwise clean bright copies; no annotation or inscriptions. Jackets lightly toned, and creased top edge. A Very Good set. The forerunner of all modern field guides, Bewick's 'History of British Birds' changed the public's perception of the natural world; it is a landmark in natural history illustration and is one of the most important illustrated books ever printed. This edition is a facsimile of the last edition seen through the press by Bewick himself, and the most complete. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Thomas Bewick (illustrator). Black on white limited edition print (5/BB22) from the original block of Thomas Bewick. Contains the workshop chop mark of Christopher Bacon (Bewick Studios) and is dated 1993. Measures 190mm x 150mm. Unframed. Protected in archival envelope.

Green hardback cloth cover. First edition thus. 230mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). xxii, 424pp. Hundreds of fine b/w etchings. G: in good condition. Ex-lib. Library rebind with new eps.

Hard. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Boards tidy. Light spotting to reading edge. Light staining to top edge. Dust jacket has some rubbing, sunning to back and staining to bottom of rear spine. Spine has light fading. Some creasing and light fraying to top edge of jacket. Size: 8vo.

23.0 x 15.0cms, c 760pp, b/w illusts, 2 fine hardback volumes with decorated boards in fine plain slipcase. Volume I covers: birds of prey (falcons, owls, shrikes); birds of the pie kind (prieles, woodpeckers; grosbeaks; buntings; finches; flycathers; larks;warblers; titmouses; swallows; doves; gallinaceous; grouses; bustards; plowers) Volume II covers: herons; spoonbills; ibises; curlews; snipes; godwits; sandpipers; oyster-catchers; avosets; gallinules; coots; phalaropes; grebes; guillemots; divers; terns; predatory gulls; petrels; merguses, anases; pelicans; auks.

Paperback. Condition: Like New. Like New. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Issued. 1st Edition. First thus, Two volume set, original quarter blue leather with marbled boards hardcover, illustrated throughout, 382 & 432 pages, a lovely fine clean set in fine original slipcase. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf B185.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Facsimile edition. Book - very good (gift inscription to rear of front endpaper in vol 2), dust jacket - very good. A facsimile of the 1826 6th edition. 2 volumes. Weight exceeds standard 1.0 kg rate - extra postage may be required for some overseas destinations.

Later printing. 8vo; pp. xxxix, xxxvi, 374, [1]; illustrated from wood engravings by Bewick. Newspaper clipping to front endpaper; light wear to extremities; contents clean and tight; a good copy or better in original gilt-stamped green cloth. Originally published in 1797. This edition, Volume One only, ".contains about 20 additional vignettes, not before published, which were designed and engraved by Bewick, being part of a series intended by him as embellishments for a History of British Fishes, on which he was engaged at the time of his death.".

Condition: Good. Spine ends and parts of middle spine worn, corners worn and rubbed, wear on cover edges, staining on corner of title page and first few pages of text, small amount of spotting on last pages of text, nick on bottom of page 379. Last page of text slightly greying, gift note on fep. Heavy book - over 700g, may require extra postage. ; Vol. 1; B&W Illustrations; 8.7 x 5.45 x 1.15"; 386 pages Half leather, plain buckram boards.

Paperback. Condition: Like New. Like New. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Vol 1: Land Birds: Front and back cover are soiled. Wear along the top, bottom and sides of the spine. Worn through at the front cover outside edge. Pencil notation on the inside cover. Spine cracked. Foxing on the first few inside pages and along the page edges. No markings on the pages. Vol 2: Water Birds: Front cover clean, back cover has white spots. Wear along the top, bottom and sides of the spine. Pencil notation on the inside cover. Spine cracked. Foxing on the first few inside pages and along the page edges. No markings on the pages. Green hardboard.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Folio Society Printing. Two volume set in slipcase. 23 x 14 cm. Octavo. 382pp, 431pp. Bound into 1/4 teal leather with marble covers. Divided into two volumes "Land Birds" and "Water Birds". Text based on that of the 1826 edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Lge 8vo. First edition thus. Publisher's quarter grey blue calf over marbled boards case binding. Top edge stained dark blue and slip case dark blue paper covered. The two volumes identically bound. An excellent copy of a very handsome re-print of the 1826 edition. lxv+382pp/xxviii+432pp. This book is heavy and may require extra postage.

Hardcover. Later edition. 8vo (9"x5.5"). 406pp. & 374pp. +appendices. Both volumes unbound in black cloth-covered solander boxes & slipcovers with giltstamped titles to spines. Pages are single leaves (not signatures), stabbed as if for sewing along the left edge. Volume I is missing its title page: first leaf is an advertisement, followed by the preface & introduction. B&W engraved cuts throughout both volumes.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Volume 1. Land Birds. [Volume 2. Water Birds.] Frank Graham. Newcastle. 1971. 2 Volumes de 22x14,5 cm. Com xliv, 382; xxii, 432 págs. Encadernações do editor com sobrecapas de proteção. Ilustrados no texto com gravuras a preto e branco. Exemplar com sinais de manuseio nas sobrecapas; com restauro amador junto à margem superior da sobrecapa do volume 2. Edição limitada a 950 cópias do opus magnum de Thomas Bewick. O volume 1 foi editado pela primeira vez em 1797 e o segundo em 1805, e desde então que a obra se tornou um tesouro de colecionador - cara e de difícil aquisição. Facsimile da 6.ª Edição, publicada em 1971 e 1972: o primeiro e segundo volumes, respetivamente. Language: Inglês / English Location/localizacao: I-170-B-9.

First Edition. Poor copy in half leather over marble boards. Spine bands worn with some loss. Partial spine band loosely inserted. Scattered foxing throughout. Physical description: 361 pages. Subjects: Birds Great Britain. Birds history. Ornithology. 1 Kg.