Portland Bird Observatory
and Field Centre

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Natural History Book Shop - secondhand books   

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A list of some of our Secondhand Books appears below:  

We have a large and varied stock of second-hand books, magazines and bird reports, donated by members, or on sale on a commission basis with a percentage of sales going to Observatory funds.

For further details of stock or to purchase secondhand books please contact the bookshop (Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays) on 01305 826625.

Selected titles list updated 8th December 2007:

Postage & packing will be charged extra at cost.

Books are listed alphabetically by author.

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Author etc	Title	Publisher etc	Description	Price £UK
Important New Arrivals - December 2007:
Abel Chapman & Walter Buck	Wild Spain		1st Edn 1893. Crown 4to  VGC	£350
Abel Chapman & Walter Buck	Unexplored Spain		1st Edn 1910. Crown 4to  VGC	£350
Abel Chapman	Wild Norway		1st Edn 1897. Crown 8to VGC	£250
JG Millais	British Diving Ducks		1913 Vol 1 No 306 in limited edition of of 450; Vol 2 No 304 in limited edition of 450. Both in fine condition	£1250 the pair
JG Millais	The Nat Hist of British Surface Feeding Ducks		1902 No 87 in limited edition of 600. Fine condition	£1000
Scott & Delacour	The Waterfowl of the World		4 vols, all 1st Edns. All fine in fine d/ws	£325 the set
Charles Coles	Game Birds		1st End 1981. Mint in mint d/w and slip case	£65
TJ Roberts	The Birds of Pakistan		in 2 Vols, 1st Edn. Mint in mint d/ws	£100 the two
We also have two complete sets of the 12 vol Bannerman & Lodge classic in d/ws - one @ £220 and one @ £250 - the latter in fine condition. Also one set of Thorburn's Birds large format 2nd Edn 1916 in 4 vols. Some fading to boards, otherwise vgc. Magnificent prints! £600 the set. These and all the books listed above may be viewed by appointment. Telephone Nick Wright on 01305 777991
Ainley & Bockelheide	Seabirds of the Farallon Islands	Stanford		£35
Alerstam	Bird Migration	Cambridge		£18
	Checklist of North American Birds		5th Edition	£12
Alexander, H. G.	Seventy Years of Birdwatching	Poyser		£90
"	"		Good edition with d/j	£50
"	"			£24
Andrle, Robert & Carroll, Janet	Atlas of Breeding Birds in New York State	Cornell	1st Edition 1988	£14
Appleyard, Ian	Ring Ouzels of the Yorkshire Dales			£18
Armstrong, P	Darwin's Desolate Islands	Picton	1992	£10
Armstrong , Robin	The Painted Stream	Dent	Signed copy	£18
Armstrong, Edward A.	A Study of Bird Song	O.U.P	1963 Library Edition	£9
"	"			£18
Audubon, James	Birds of America	Macmillan	Tenth Printing 1974	£20
Audubon	The Complete Audubon	Volair Books	5 Volume set in slip case printed as 75th anniversary set1979 to include Quadrupeds	£100
Audubon	British Birds		Large format 2nd Edition. Outer boards slightly chipped 4 vols	£600
Bannerman & Vella-Gaffiero	Birds of Maltese Archipelago	Museum Dept. Malta	photocopied d/j	£40
Bannerman	Birds of the British Isles		Vols ,9 10	£22 each
Bannerman	"		Set	£250
Barnes, John A.G.	The Titmice of the British Isles			£9
Barrett, Harry B.	19th Cent Paintings of William Pope	Feheley	Signed by the author 1976	£23
Beebe, William	The Arcturus Adventure	Putnam	1926	£12
Beetham, Bentley	The Home-Life of the Spoonbill	Witherby		£18
Benson et al	Thje Birds of Zambia	Collins		£26
Bent, Arthur Cleveland	Life Histories of North American Woodpeckers	Indiana	1992  As new	£45
Berger	Hawaiian Birdlife	University Press of Hawaii		£24
	BWP		As new	£450
Bettey	Island & Royal Manor of Portland		1750---1851  Pub1970	£18
Blanchan	Birds that Hunt & are Hunted	Doubleday	1899	£20
oyer	Owls of the World			£24
Brockie, Keith	Wildlife Sketchbook	Macmillan	1981	£15
Brockie, Keith	The Silvery Tay	Dent		£26
Brown & Amadon	Eagles. Hawks and Vultures of the World		1st edition: boxed set of two volumes	£90
Brown & Amadon	"		Unboxed set	£75
"	"		Similar	£40
Brown, David E.	Arizona Wetlands & Waterfowl	Arizona	1985  1st edition	£15
Brown, Jerram	Helping & Communal Breeding in Birds	Princeton	1987 Paperback	£12
Brown, Leslie	Eagles	Michael Joseph		£9
Burger, Joanna	Seabirds & Other Marine Vertebrates	Columbia U.P.	As new	£12
Burger, Joanna et al	The Black Skimmer. Social Dynamics etc	Columbia U.P.	As new	£14
Burton, John	The Naturalist in London	David & Charles		£8
Burton, Philip.	Vanishing Eagles (Boyer illust).	Eagle Star		£14
	BWP	Oxford	Mint set of 9 vols	£450
Bykhovskii, B.E. editor,	Bird Migrations - Ecological and Physiological Factors	Halstead Press - John Wiley & Sons, 1973	a good / very good hardback book, no cover issued,	£35
Calburn	Calburn's Birds of South Africa	Purnell	1969  Card cover	£16
"	"		Hardback with d/j	£18
Campbell, Bruce	Birdwatcher at Large	Dent		£8
Campbell & Ede	Birds of Town and Village	Country Life		£9
Carson, Rachel	Silent Spring		1st English Edition	£15
Cave & Macdonald	The Birds of Sudan	Oliver & Boyd	with photo dust jacket	£85
Chapman, Abel	Bird Life of the Borders	Gurney & Jackson	Signed by the author and presented to the officers' mess of HMS Adamant in 1915	£120
Chapman, Abel	Borders and Beyond. Arctic, Cheviot & Tropic	Gurney & Jackson	1924	£80
Chinery, Michael	The Natural History of the Garden	Collins	As new.1977	£22
"	Butterflies & Day Flying Moths	Collins	Good paperback	£10
Chislett, Ralph	Northward Ho for Birds	Country Life	1st Edition 1933	£14
Christian	Down the Long Wind			£9
Christy, Miller	The Birds of Essex	Durrant	Fine modern binding. Some water damage to base of pages	£60
Chrystal, R. Neil	Insects of the British Woodland	Frederick Warne	1937	£11
Clancey, P. A.	The Birds of Natal and Zululand	Oliver & Boyd	1st Edition 1964	£60
"	Gamebirds of Southern Africa	Purnell	1st Edition 1967	£60
Coates-Palgrave	Trees of Southern Africa	Striuk	Hard back 1981	£20
Cohen, Edwin.	Birds of Hampshire & Isle of Wight	Oliver & B		£19
Coles & Pledger	Game Birds	Crescent		£10
Conder, Peter	The Wheatear	Helm		£25
Coombs, F.	Crows	Batsford, 1978	a fine condition book in a fine d/j that has been sellotaped down	£10
Coombs, Franklin	The Crows	Batsford		£8
Cooper & Forshaw	|Birds of Paradise & Bower Birds	Collins	Boxed 1st edition 1977	£250
Coues	Handbook of Field & General Ornithology	Macmillan	1890	£30
Coward, T.A.	Birds of the British Isles and their Eggs	Warne	Vol 1 Vol 2 & 3 each	£10 £14
Cox, Simon	A New Guide to The Birds of Essex	EBWPS		£12
Cramp, et al.	BWP Vol.1 - Ostrich to Ducks.	Oxford		£18
Cramp et al	BWP	Oxford	Mint set of 9 volumes	£450
Dalton	Secret Life of an Oakwood	Century		£10
Dance, Peter	Classic Nat. Hist Prints-- Birds	Collins & Brown	1st Edition 1990	£16
Delacour, Jean et al	Curassows & related Birds	American Mus. of Nat. History	1973  Paintings by Gilbert & Sutton	£145
"	"	"	As above	£115
"	Waterfowl of the World Vol 2	Country Life	3rd Impression 1961	£30
Dennis	British Butterflies	Classey	Ex Lib	£10
Dennis & Wakefield	Common British Fungi	Saiga Publishing	With slightly torn  d/j	£25
"	"	"	Perfect	£35
"	"	"	Without d/j	£15
"	"		2nd copy	£15
Devlin & Naismith	World of Roger Tory Peterson		Signed by RTP	£15
Dobbs, Austen	The Birds of Nottinghamshire	David & Charles		£12
Dorst, Jean	The Migrations of Birds	Heinemann, 1962	a fine condition hardback book in a fine d/j	£12
Dimond, et al.	Weather and Bird Behaviour	Poyser		£19
Dixon	The Nests & Eggs of British Birds	Chapman	Large Paper Edition 1894	£40
Dixon, Charles	The Migration of Birds	Cox	1897	£35
Dixon, Charles	Among the Birds in Northern Shires	Blackie & Son	1900	£35
Durman	Bird Observatories	Poyser	Good copy	£75
"	"	"	Fine copy	£90
"			With photo D/j	£40
Dutt	Wild Life in East Anglia	Methuen		£14
Eastman, Rosemary	The Kingfisher	Collins		£7
Eckert & Kralus	Wading Birds of North America	Weathervane		£24
Ehrlich, Paul, et al.	The Birdwatcher's Handbook	Oxford, 1994	a fine condition book with a flexible, illustrated-card cover	£7
Elman	Atlantic Flyway	Winchester Press	Good copy with d/j	£15
Erritzoe & Erritzoe	Pittas of the World	Lutterworth		£32
Estes	The Behavior Guide to African Mammals	California		£21
Etchecopar & Hue	Birds of North Africa	Oliver & Boyd	First English Edition 1967	£25
Evans	Falconry	Bartholomew		£10
Ewer	The Carnivores	Weidenfeld & Nicholson		£22
	The Starling	Oxford	F,	£8
Fairbairn, W	Some Game Birds of West Africa	Oliver & Boyd		£18
Feduccia, Alan	The Birds of Colonial Williamsburg	Colonial Williamsburg Foundation	Illustrated by Douglas Pratt	£20
Ferguson-Lees, et al.	Shell Guide Birds of Britain & Ireland			£9
Ferris, Chris	The Darkness is Light Enough	Michael Joseph		£12
Fisher	Rockall	Bles		£10
Fitch Daglish	Woodcuts of British Birds	Benn	Limited to 500 copies	£50
Fitter & Richardson	Pocket Guide to Nests & Eggs	Collins,		£6
Fitter, R.S.R.	London's Birds	Collins,		£8
Fleming	Falconry & Falcons	ep		£8
	Computer-MappedFlora of Warwickshire	EP	Rubbed D/J	£25
Forbush, Edward Howe	Birds of Massachusetts Part 111	Mass. Dept. of Agriculture	1929	£29
Forrest, H.E.	The Vertebrate Fauna of North Wales	Witherby	1907 28 Plates & Map	£65
Forsyth, Adrian	Mammals of North America	Firefly		£26
Fowler	Tales of the Birds	MacMillan	1891	£14
Fry	The Bee-eaters	Poyser		£28
Frandsen, Joy	Birds of the South Western Cape	Sable	1982	£12
Fuertes	A Celebration of Birds	Collins		£26
Gallagher, Michael & Woodcock, Martin	The Birds of Oman	Quartet Books	1980	£32
Grant, P.J.	Gulls a Guide to Identification	Poyser		£13
Gargett	The Black Eagle			£28
Garner	Farming in Our Lifetime	R.A.B.I		£7
Gaston & Nettleship	Thick Billed Murres of Prince Leopold Island	Canadian Wildlife		£25
Gatter, Wulf	The Birds of Liberia	Pica	With dust jacket	£30
Geist. Valerius	Deer of the World	Swan Hill		£38
Goodman et al	Birds of Egypt	Oxford	Good copy with d/j	£50
Gould	Wonderful Life	Radius		£12
Gould, John	Birds of Europe Vols 1 & 2	Methuen	1966	£14
Grant Watson	Enigmas of Natural History	Cresset	Illustrated by Barbara Greg---No d/j Some foxing	£7
Grant Watson	More Enigmas of Natural History	Cresset	As above---- Slightly better condition.	£8
Gray	British Seaweed	Reeve & Co	1866 16 hand painted colour plates	£45
Grossman & Hamlet	Birds of Prey of the World			£28
Gwynne-Vaughan &Barnes	The Structure & Development of the Fungi	Cambridge	!930 Rebound as good	£30
Halliday,W	The Book of Migratory Birds	John Ouseley	Birds met with on and around Northumbrian coast C. 1900	£12
Halliday	Vanishing Birds	Holt		£10
Halliday	Book of Migratory Birds	Ouseley		£10
Hancock & Elliot	Herons of the World	London Editions		£45
Hardy, Eric.	A Guide to the Birds of Scotland.	Constable		£6
Hardy	Naturalist in Lakeland	David & Charles		£8
Harris et al	The Shrikes of Southern Africa	Struik	Boxed edition	£80
Harris, C.J.	Otters--A study of the recent Lutrinae	Weidenfield & Nicholson		£40
Harrison, Colin.	An Atlas of Birds of the Western Palearctic			£12
Harrison, Graham R.	The Birds of the West Midlands.	W.M.B.C.		£16
Harrison-Matthews Editor	Sunday Times Animals of Britain	Sunday Times	All numbers except Water Voles 23 titles	£4 each including postage
Harthan, A	The Birds of Worcestershire	Littebury		£35
Harting	Birds of Middlesex	Van Voorst	1866	£60
Hawksworth et al	Ainsworth & Bisbey's Dictionary of the Fungi	Commonwealth Mycological Institute	1983	£17
Heckin	Caddis	Methuen		£9
Hill & Smith	Bats. A Natural History	British Museum Natural History		£32
Holloway, John	Fair Isle's 'Garden' Birds	Shetland Times		£12
Hosking & Hale	Eric Hosking's Waders	Pelham Books		£9
Hosking, Eric	Eric Hosking's Birds (50 yrs)	Pelham Books		£9
Howard, H. Eliot	Territory in Bird Life	John Murray	1920 Illustrations by Lodge & Gronvold	£20
Howell	Florida Bird Life		1932	£20
Hudson, W.H.	Idle Days in Patagonia	Dent	1924 Lacks d/j	£9
Hume & Pearson	Seabirds (Hamlyn Bird Behaviour Guides)	Hamlyn		£10
Imhof	Alabama Birds	UAP		£32
Ingersoll	Alaskan Birdlife	Audubon Societies		£14
Irwin	British Bird Books	Graft & Co	!951 Covering 1481 to 1948 in full Morocco	£65
William Jameson	The Wandering Albatross	Hart-Davis	1st edition	£10
Johnsgard	Birds of the Great Plains	Nebraska		£10
"	"			£14
Johnsgard	Plovers, Sandpipers & Snipes of the World	Nebraska