Macpherson the rev h a (12 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 2nd Edition. Beneath the title The Pheasant, are three sub-titles: "Natural History, "Shooting" and "Cookery". First published in 1895, re-issued in 1986 by Ashford Press Publishing, Southampton. Very nice neat and spotless book in clear neat cover. Excellent condition, and still an excellent guide to all aspects of the bird. A Thorburn (illustrator).…

Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition. Octavo. Original tan cloth over boards, ink decorated at front cover and spine, gilt lettering at spine, black end papers, illustrated. Pretaining to Natural History, Shooting, and Cookery. Very good, spine and outter edges of covers slightly darkened, light edge wear, spine ends and corners bumped, pages slightly agetoned, previous owner's signature at title page.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1986 Edition without Jacket on green cloth - collectable - will send out 1 st class post.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. BOUND IN DARK GREEN CLOTH HARDCOVERS, 4to WITH CLEAR GILT TITLES TO SPINE THIS DATED 1897 FIRST EDITION, PUBLISHED IN EDINBURGH BY DAVID DOUGLAS IS VG. L1V/511pp WITH PREFACE, INTRODUCTION, THE INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE OF FOWLING, SNARES & TRAPS, NETS, EXTENSIVE LIST OF BIRDS SPECIES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AND INDIVIDUAL METHOD OF CAPTURE. e.g. RAVENS AND JAYS SNARED WITH RUNNING NOOSE IN GREENLAND ,MAORI PARROT SNARED IN NEW ZEALAND. WITH 50 CHAPTERS, 106 ENGRAVINGS SHOW DEVICES FOR CAPTURE IN DETAIL: FIVE OF THESE FULL- PAGE WITH TISSUE GUARDS.SIGNS OF BOOKPLATE REMOVAL TO FFEP, VERY LIGHT SCATTERED FOXING,WSLIGHT WEAR TO TOP/BOTTOM OF SPINE, OTHERWISE VG. …

Cloth. Zustand: Good Plus. No Jacket. With colour frontis and fold-out map. Spine stained and chipped, some light staining to boards, closed edges tanned and foxed, content clean and bright, includes loose compliments slip from Rev Macpherson Size: 8vo.

1895. Longmans, Green and Co. Hardback. Book - Fair, ex-lib, signs of age, wear to spine.

1895. Longmans, Green and Co. Hardback. Book - Poor, ex-lib, front board detached, text and plates still good.

1896. Longmans, Green and Co. Hardback. Book - Poor/Fair, ex-lib, front free end paper and half title page detached.

Hardcover. pp.xx, 206 with colour frontis. of a Dotterell by Keulemans and fold-out map. 8vo. Hardback. With bookplate of William Edwin Glegg (1879-1952). Minor spotting to fore-edges of text block o/w. contents fine. Original blue cloth binding thor. vg. to nr. fine. William Edwin Glegg was the author of 'A History of the Birds of Essex' (1929) and 'A History of the Birds of Middlesex' (1935).…

Hard. Zustand: Good. 'The Birds of Cumberland Critically Studied, including some notes on the Birds of Westmorland.' Dark blue boards clean with light wear, gilt lettering to spine, fep missing, ink inscription to head of initial page, colour frontispiece with tissue guard of the Dotterel bird, folded colour map in very good condition, text clean and unmarked, internal hinge cracked at rep, pp secure in binding. Size: 8vo. …

Cloth. Zustand: Near fine. First Edition, First Impression. Large octavo, civ, 378pp. Publisher's dark green cloth, title in gilt on the spine, top edge gilt. Silk bookmark. Lightly bumped lower corners, touch of rubbing to cloth boards. Internally clean, solid text block. Illustrated with a photographic title page, 18 illustrated plates, 30 in-text illustrations and three maps (one foldout map). (Woods, p. 380). The ninth volume in the Vertebrate Fauna of Scotland series. Includes memoirs of naturalists Thomas Edward Buckley and Hugh Alexander MacPherson. The first edition of A Fauna of the North-West Highlands & Skye by J. A. Harvie-Brown and the Rev. H. A. Macpherson, with maps and 18 illustrated plates. (illustrator).…

Soft cover. pp.xx, 206 with colour frontis. of a Dotterell by Keulemans and fold-out map. With Errata slip. 8vo. Hardback. Short closed tear to margin of p.13, o/w. contents fine. James Edmund Harting's (1841-1928) copy with his coat of arms bookplate, and his annotations, corrections and notes to 11 pages, plus his insertions of related material (bird sightings) including a typed, corrected, proof (corrections in Harting's hand) of the scholarly, four page article which featured in The Zoologist (June 1886) reviewing this publication. Original blue cloth boards in nr. fine condition. A superb copy. Harting was editor of The Zoologist from 1877 to 1896. Whilst the book review is not attributed to anyone, it would appear that Harting thoroughly read this copy of The Birds of Cumberland and was very probably the author of the review. The notes he made in his copy feature clearly within the review. The insertions added to this copy by Harting date until 1912 indicating his ongoing curiosity and high level of interest in the subject.…