Natural History, Birds – Audubon (John James, 1785-1851), Th...

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Natural History, Birds – Audubon (John James, 1785-1851), The Birds of America, New York, American Heritage Publishing, 1966, introduction by Marshall B. Davidson, large 4to, 2 vols. in one, xxxi + 223plates + 431 + xxxiii + iv bound blue cloth, gilt on blue printed title panels and to spine, printed dw, only slight tears; Holland (John), Bird Spotting, London, Blandford, 2nd edn., repr. 1963, 4 Vols. 16mo, illustrated front covers, varying coloured rear covers, numerous colour illus. after Rein Stuurman, & monochrome drawings, Vol 1, 48pp Divers to Game Birds, Vol 2, pp53-96, Ducks to Hawks, Vol. 3, pp100-144, Plovers to the Auk family, Vol. 4, pp148-192, Doves to Crows, covers faded and stained; Barclay-Smith (Phyllis, FZS), Garden Birds, London, King Penguin 1945 repr. 1946, 12mo, 20 coloured plates, 35pp black on yellow printed boards, spine partly detached & missing; Perry (Powell, ed.), & Kerr (Thomas), British Birds, Their Nests and Eggs, London, Perry, n. d. (1950s) a ‘Do you Know Book’, 16mo, 22 coloured illus., also monochrome, pictorially printed blue boards, spine torn off; Ladybird Books, Wills & Hepworth, Loughborough, 19mo: Birds, series 651, 1st edn., 1966; Garden Birds, Series 536 1967; Heath and Woodland Birds, series 536 1968 & Sea & Estuary Birds, 1969, all covers stained and scuffed (11)