Rare, Hard-to-Find Books

A History of British Birds, with Coloured Illustrations of Their Eggs

by

Henry Seebohm, London, 1883-85: Printed for the Author.

Four volumes, large
octavo.

Fourth volume consists of 68 chromolithographed plates of eggs.

An exceptional set.

Handsomely bound in half contemporary green morocco, marbled boards, spines with
raised bands, gilt.

Only light wear. A terrific set of ornithology books in near fine and attractive bindings.
General foxing.

I will ship international, at actual cost. That will have to be quoted and is dependent on destination.

Insurance recommended.

$1,700.00

Banks, Reverend Louis A.,IMMORTAL SONGS OF CAMP AND FIELD,Brothers
Company, 1898, First edition.,Nr Fine/no DJ, Many of the songs date from the Civil War,both North and South,but a few date from earlier conflicts. The binding is very ornate making this a handsome copy of a beautiful publication.

$100.00

Gene Stratton - Porter,

Illustrated

Homing with the Birds

Garden City New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1919. Decorative Cloth. Good/No Jacket. First Edition. 5 1/2 X 8 1/4. The boards are brown cloth with black letters front and spine. The front board has a blind stamp of a bird flying into its nest.
Internally the pages are tight and clean.

$245.00

Dier Treblig Nhoj, PICKWICKIANS ABROAD. With illustrations by the Author.

Published by the International Insitute of China, 1913 (1989), Inscribed: To Ida Gregory: -a much traveled copy of an old “first edition” - with compliments of the author-remembering many kindnesses, John Gilbert Reid, (Dier Treblig Nhoj) Santa Cruz,
California, August 30, 1946. . 4to 7 1/2″ x 10″, .” Very good in decorative grey-green leatherette with black lettering and picture of Chinese pagoda on a hill on front. In very good scarce jacket. Both FEPs discolored, else interior pages quite clean, hinge tight, a very sound copy of an old-timey children’s book, “a continuation-drama of comedy and tragedy, every scene of which has been carefully acted out by the Pickwick Club, now
numbering more than a hundred mannikins, many of whom begun life at the Siccawei Orphanage near Shanghai. That the result may amuse other children as much as it has the
author is the sincere wish ..” One color & several B/W illustrations by the author. 286pp

$175.00