A History of British Birds by Thomas Bewick, Used (87 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Illustrated in B/W. Firm binding, rubbing/tanning to exterior, bright unmarked pages. Well packaged, ships with tracking.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 25 pages, 167 leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 18cm. Subjects: Bewick, Thomas (1753-1828). Birds in art. 1 Kg.

Hard bound. Condition: Book gooed. Dust Jacket Condition: Jacket : small traces of use. 167 pp. B/w illustrations.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 25 pages, 167 leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 18cm. Subjects: Bewick, Thomas (1753-1828). Birds in art. 1 Kg.

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.

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.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Frank Graham (facsimile of 6th edition, 1971). Volume 1 only. Hardback in very good condition with clean, unmarked pages and no marking to cover boards or spine. Dustjacket has been price-clipped but otherwise is in good condition with no marking and no major rips or tears, just very small open tear to top right of spine section alongside light-to-moderate rubbing along entirety of top edge and small abrasion towards to edge of front cover at join with interior flap (photos available upon request). Dispatched from UK within three days.

XXXVIII, 346 pp. Illustrations in the text. Contemporary full calf, rebacked, original worn spine mounted on new one, title-label missing, top of spine damaged. Old book-plate, Rowles Buckland.

Condition: Very Good. 2010. No Edition Remarks. Unpaginated. No dust jacket, Folio edition with slipcase. Marbled paper covered boards with a blue spine strip and gilt, housed in a blue slipcase. Contains in-text monochromatic illustrations throughout. Vol. 1 - Land Birds; Vol. 2 - Water Birds. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Slipcase has light edge-wear with minor marking to panels.

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 rates - extra postage may be requested for UK 1st class/overseas deliveries.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1832 2 volume edition. Half brown leather over marbled boards, gilt titles on red labels to spines. Illustrated throughout in b/w by the author. Condition: Volume 1 Fair; Volume 2 Very good. Both volumes, leather rubbed, vol 2 with small tear to head of spine. Marbling to boards a little rubbed. Internally: Volume 1: Ffep and next blank page are cut across with loss to much of top half. 4 leaves of the introduction have been cut, leaving closed flasp, affecting top margin only. The last two pages have been cut along their length a couple of inches from the gutter, with the cut protion completely missing. Volume 2 is complete. Aside from the faults mentioned, internally both volumes are generally clean and bright. Size: 8.5 x 5.5 inches / 22 x 14 cm. 386/424 pages. Combined weight: 1.4kg. Heavy book, there may be extra charges for overseas.

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.

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.

First FS Edition. 230mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). 381pp; 431pp. Facsimile wood-engravings by Bewick. Heavy set extra shipping needed for overseas. VG : in very good condition with blue slipcase Blue hardback marbled boards with blue leather spine.

Hard Back. No Jacket. Volume 1, Containing the History and Description of Land Birds. Rebound in green boards with gilt titling to the spine. Includes a small booklet to the front of the book from 1838 of recently published books, along with an attached newspaper cut out from 1905. Previous owner has stuck a list of the editions of Bewick's books to the page before the title page. Contents very clean, with occasional spots of foxing. Several black and white illustrations throughout. Edges untrimmed and lightly foxed. Binding tight. Overall a very good copy, perfect as a gift. pp386. book.

Quarter-Leather Hardback. Condition: Fine. First Thus. 2010 First Thus. 2 Fine Quarter-Leather Hardbacks. No inscriptions or bookplates. Very Good+ slipcase. Some marks to panels of slipcase. Volume 1 containing the History & Description of Land Birds. Volume 2 containing the History & Description of Water Birds. Two volume complete matching set in quarter blue leather over marbled paper-covered boards ; complete with blue slipcase with illustrated side panel. Introduction by Jenny Uglow. UK Postage £3.40; Airmail to USA and Canada £26.40; Airmail to Rest of the World (except the EU), £32.40. We no longer export to the EU due to slow and lost deliveries, and excessive and unpredictable charges since Brexit). We only use airmail as surface mail can take up to 10 weeks.

Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Hardback. 2 vols. Octavos. xl, 386; xxii, 424pp. Bound in full contemporary leather with gilt spine titles, marbled endpapers. Slight wear and rubbing, foot of spine to vol. 1. chipped, otherwise a very good, solid set with clean contents. Bookplate to pastedown with ink names to endpapers.

Octavo,780 pp., two volumes,woodcuts, the bookplate of Walter Froggatt, worn publisher's cloth. Volume one: History and description of land birds. Volume two: History and description of water birds.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1804 1st edition, Edward Walker, Newcastle, 8vo., xx, 400pp., numerous engravings by Bewick, light foxing on title but generally very clean, bound in modern half brown leather, rasied bands. A very nice clean copy on the 1st edition of Volume Two of this classic work.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Still sealed. Orders received by 3pm Sent from the UK that weekday.

Condition: Good. xxxix, [1], xxxvi, 374, xxxvi, [1]; xxiii, [1], 406, xi, [3], text engravings. . HB. 2 vols, 8vo, orig. cloth (not quite uniform), Vol. I: recased, new endpapers, rebacked with orig. backstrip laid down; Vol. II: rubbed with some minor wear to extremities. Good set. 8th edition. Vol. I: Land Birds; Vol. II: Water Birds. Illustrated with wood engravings by T. Bewick. 'This edition, . contains about twenty additional vignettes, not before published, which were designed and engraved on wood by the late Thomas Bewick, being part of a series intended by him as embellishments for a History of Fishes, on which he was engaged at the time of his death'. - Advertisement (Vol. I).Freeman 306.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated Edition. Wood-engravings and tailpieces within the text. Original mauve blindstamped cloth, spines neatly laid down, titled in gilt on the spines, new endpapers. Neat ownership signature. A very good bright set. Earlier editions respectively had about 131 figures of birds, 119 tailpieces and 101 figures of birds,136 tailpieces, this contains more and is an attempt at a definitive edition by Robert and Jane Bewick. It introduces nineteen new vignettes, one new figure of a bird 'Bewick's Swan' - thought to be TB's finest wood-engraving. The arrangement of the text varies from previous editions. Finally, this is the first and only edition to carry John Hancock's 'Synopsis' and is sometimes called 'Hancock's edition' from the revisions he supplied. Despite all this, it proved a very slow seller and the 1,500 sets printed were not declared out-of-print by Longmans until 1882.

Leather. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Thomas Bewick (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of Thomas Bewick's history of British birds bound with a supplement published later in 1821, in leather binding. First edition of History of British Birds by Thomas Bewick in half morocco binding.?This is Volume I only of the two volume set, discussing a History and Description of Land Birds.?Bound with Part I of A Supplement to the History of British Birds, published in 1821.?Densely illustrated with many in-text illustrations by Thomas Bewick, an English wood-engraver and natural history author. Collated and complete with the frontispiece.?Includes a signed letter from the bookseller Horace G. Commin, based in Bournemouth, from 1909 addressed to C. H. Woodhouse, who bought this book from him. This work includes his book plate to the first pastedown.?Prior to this, this work was from the library of a well knnwon Naturalist C. E. Morris of St Nicolas Salisbury. With his ink inscriptions to the title pages from 1894, and other owner's ink inscriptions including relative Emily Morres from 1879 and 1826.? In half morocco binding and cloth boards. Externally, very smart. There is some minor rubbing to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Prior owner's book plate to the first pastedown and prior owner's ink inscriptions to both title pages. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean with some spotting to the first few pages only. Very Good Indeed. book.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 382 & 432 pp., Rebound: Half Leather on Marbled Boards, Gilt Raised Bands, Very Good with some edge wear; in volume I, Leaf III/Iv missing; also, part of leaf 345/6 missing (Vol. II complete). Previous owner's signature inked on title page of both volumes ("Henry Long, 1833"); cataloging description penciled inside covers by later owner P. Rodyk. Illustrated (engravings). Vol. I first published in 1797, Vol. II in 1804. This is the last edition seen through the press by Bewick himself, and also the most complete. 6th Edition.

Half Calf and Marbled Boards. Condition: Good. Thomas Bewick (illustrator). Seventh and Fifth. Volume I, seventh edition, xl, 330pp, supplement 50pp, list of contents at rear Volume II, fifth edition, xxii, 360pp, supplement 49pp, list of contents at rear, Both volumes: some foxing to prelim and final pages, marbled endpapers and edges, a bookplate of George Field, with small label with ink signature, half red calf and marble paper boards, paper rubbed with loss of definition of marbling, raised spine bands. Roscoe, Thomas Bewick Bibliography Raisonne - pages 123-129 Size: 8.25 x 5.25 Inches. Ornithology/illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Hinges loose and broken. Moderate rubbing to cloth boards. Spines creased and faded. Newspaper clipping pasted to endpapers. Bindings shaky with looseness to gutters between some gatherings. Feather inserted in one leaf. Pages clean.; Volume I: [2], xxxix, [1], 374, [2], 11, [1] pages + [1] page advertisements. Volume II: xxiii, [1], 406, [2], xxxvi pages. Original purple blind-stamped cloth boards. Title continues thus: Volume I: "Containing the History and Description of Land Birds". Volume II: "Containing the History and Description of Water Birds". Numerous wood engravings. Page dimensions: 223 x 141mm.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Edward Walker, Newcastle. 1821. Seventh and fifth editions respectively. 330, 46, [2], 360, 43, [1] pages. Profusely illustrated with Bewick's famous wood-engravings. One engraving, of the heron, on page 49 of Vol. II. has been hand-coloured with grey water-colour paint which has slightly seeped through to the following page in an attractive way. The text is still readable. Bound in half green calf, rebacked with a modern spine and label. Large thick 8vo. Original marbled boards and edges. Occasional very light foxing otherwise a clean and very sound copy of a classic work on British Land and Sea Birds.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Large 8vo. XXXVI + 374 + XXIII + 406 + XI + 526 Illustrated with wood-engravings by Thomas Bewick. Original brown cloth. Gilt spines. Very light spoting, covers a little rubbed and marked, volume 3 covers mottled and end-papers foxed.