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A. Radclyffe Dugmore. Bird Homes. The nests eggs and breading habits of the land birds breeding in the United States; with hints on the rearing and photographing of young birds. New York: Doubleday and McClure Co., 1900. Octavo. 183 pp. With color and half-tone plates; frontispiece with tissue guard. Publisher's pictorial green binding; minor edgewear. Top edge stained green, other edges untrimmed. Some gutters overextended. Very good. [Together with]: Hubert D. Astley, Rev. My Birds in Freedom and Captivity. London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1900. First edition. Octavo. 254 pp. 22 photogravures with tissue guards; text illustrations throughout. Publisher's half-calf with gilt-stamped spine label and marbled boards. Moderate wear to all edges and spine; corners bumped. Internally clean; tissue guard on frontispiece torn partially loose. Bookplate to front pastedown. Very Good. [Together with]: Francis Hobart Herrick. The Home Life of Wild Birds. A new method of the study and photography of birds. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1901. Small Quarto. 148 pp. 141 lithographs; frontispiece with captioned tissue guard. Publisher's decorated brown cloth. Very minor wear to edges. Internally clean. Edges rough-cut. Very Good. [Together with]: Eduard Eichenberg. What the Birds Did at Hazel's Orchard. San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1916. 12mo. 76 pp. Woodcut frontispiece and title-page. Publisher's decorated green paper boards with cloth spine; corners very slightly bumped. Internally clean. With matching green decorated dust jacket; minor wear to edges. Very Good. [Together with]: Richard C. McGregor. Philippine Birds for Boys and Girls. Manila: McCullough Printing Company, 1927. Second Edition. Octavo. 138 pp. 6 chromolithographs; illustrations throughout. Publisher's brown pictorial cloth; very minor wear to edges. Internally generally clean; front and rear free endpapers toned. Very Good. [Together with]: Alfred O. Gross. The Heath Hen. Boston: Printed for the Boston Society of Natural History, 1928. Quarto. 588 pp. 12 lithographic plates (some with multiple figures). Publisher's gilt-stamped light green cloth. Minor wear to edges; some soiling of front and back boards; spine sunned and slightly worn. Minor intermittent foxing; upper corner of plate 49 stained. Ephemera laid-in. Good. [Together with]: George Miksch Sutton. The Golden Plover and Other Birds. Ithaca: Comstock Publishing Company, 1939. Octavo. 324 pp. 7 chromolithographic plates; illustrations throughout. Publisher's gilt-stamped green cloth; minor edgewear. Internally generally clean, front free endpaper slightly toned. Endpapers illustrated by author; ex-libris stamp to front free endpaper. With full-color pictorial dust jacket; some wear to edges. Very Good. [Together with]: Eliot Howard. A Waterhen's World. Cambridge: University Press, 1940. First Edition. Large Octavo. 84 pp. 2 lithographic plates. Publisher's royal blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine; minor shelf wear. Internally generally clean, minor intermittent foxing. Untrimmed edges. Dust jacket; minor toning. Very good. [Together with]: David Lack. Darwin's Finches. Cambridge: University Press, 1947. Small Octavo. 208 pp. Illustrations throughout. Publisher's gilt-stamped teal cloth. Minor edgewear; corners slightly bumped. Internally generally clean; rear free endpaper and pastedown slightly toned. Dust jacket; toned, some wear to edges. Very Good. [Together with]: Alan Kemp and Simon Calburn. The Owls of Southern Africa. Cape Town: Struik Winchester, 1987. Quarto. 184 pp. Illustrations throughout (chiefly color) and distribution maps. Publisher's pictorial stamped beige cloth. Internally clean. With pictorial dust jacket. Pictorial slipcase; very minor shelf wear. Bookseller's ticket to front pastedown. Near Fine.

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