Birds from T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA

Publisher's original olive green cloth with spine lettering gilt, octavo, pp. 64. First edition in this format. Edward Lear (1812-1888) published his original parrot drawings in a twelve-part folio between 1830 and 1832 under the title "Illustrations of the family of Psittacidae, or parrots." Here, beautifully reproduced from that London original, are all 42 plates with a descriptive index.

Publisher's stapled illustrated wrappers, 12mo (7 x 4 inches), pp. viii, 32. Some illustrations. Map: Coastal Region of South Carolina. A slim volume designed for convenient carry in a breast or jacket pocket. Some shelf and consultation wear.

First edition, so stated, in green boards with bronze spine lettering and upper board decorative device, octavo, pp. 52. Endpaper maps. Illustrated.

Nicely done up by the publisher in blue cloth with spine lettering gilt, quarto, pp. 317. Illustrated.

Nicely done up by the publisher in violet cloth with spine lettering gilt, quarto, pp. 285. Illustrated.

Publisher's cloth with spine lettering gilt, quarto, pp. 392. Illustrated.

Third edition, revised and enlarged, octavo, pp. xlvi, 488. Illustrated in color and in black and white. Endpaper maps.

A Very Good quarto volume in Very Good dust jacket. Illustrations by Dana Gardner.

Publisher's glossy boards, quarto, pp. 272. Richly illustrated. Issued without a dust jacket.

Publisher's blue cloth with silver spine and upper board lettering, small quarto, pp. 342. Frontispiece and 11 other full page color plates, as called for. Additional black and white illustrations by James MacDonald. Nicks and shelf rubs at spine ends and board tips. Upper board fore-edge protrudes slightly beyond lower board fore-edge, as in an overbite. Front hinge just beginning… Read more about this item

Published as a Special Bulletin of the Department of Zoology and Physiology of the Michigan Agricultural College. Printed brown wrappers, large thick octavo, pp. xiv, 822. Perfect with the 70 full-page plates called for. The brown paper wrappers are intriguing, not of a high quality, almost as though they constitute an advance copy. Nicks along wrapper peripheries. Top of spine… Read more about this item

Wraps, oblong 32mo, pp. 22. With the complete set of 48 mounted bird cards. Just light wear, as with age and careful handling, but very good in the publisher's stapled color-illustrated wrappers. Housed in a clear protective display sleeve with white card-stock backing board.

First edition, quarto, pp. xxxii, 140. Illustrated by Allan Brooks and Roger Tory Peterson. Maps. Very good in the publisher's dark green cloth with upper board and spine lettering gilt. Said Shakespeare: "When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk."