Search - lot of 5 books

Reference : 17211aaf

‎Birds. - Lot of 16 books.‎

‎ clothbound.‎

‎Interesting lot of 16 mostly colourfull ill. books on birds, of the 20th century . Americas, India, Africa and Europe are represented. Common birds & Exotic. One on Cuckoos (1899), one on: The birds of Kutch (India). 1) Saunders, A.A.: The lives of wild birds. NY, 1954, in-8°, 256 p., ill., cloth. 2) Helme, E.E.: Feathered friends of stream and shore. With 16 coloured plates and other Ill. by B. Briggs. London, ca. 1950, in-4°, 110 p., clothbd. /3) Line, L. at all: The Audubon Society Book of water birds. New York, 1987, gr. in-4°, 256 p., fully ill., clothbd. /4) North-American Birds in full colour Pocket-Bk.1973, sm. in-8, pb. / 5) Allen: Stalkin birds with color camera. Nat. Georg. Soc. 1951, in-4°, cloth / 6) Sálim Ali: The birds of Kutch (India). Colour plates. 1945, in-4°, cloth / 7) Audubon Soc. Book of Wild Birds. 1976, lg. in-4°, 290 p., full page colour ill., cloth, jacket. / 8) Walter, W.G.: Some experiments on the sense of smell in birds. Studied by the method of conditioned reflexes. 1942. 92 p., wr. / 9) The treasury of birds. London, Octopus, 1972, in-4°, 136 p., 147 colour and black and white phot. / 10) Austin, O.L. (text) & Singer, A. (ill.): Birds of the world. A survey of the 27 orders and 155 families. London, Octupus, 1988, in-4°, 317 p., ill. / 11) Paulson, D.: Exotic birds. N.Y., Crescent Books, 1989, in-4°, 128 p., with marvellous colour phot. / 12) Japp, Alex. H.: Our Common Cuckoo and other Cuckoos and Parasitical Birds. London, 1899, 292 p., ill., cloth / 13) SA Field guide to the birds of east and central africa. 1972, ill.14) Heinzel, H. a.o.: Birds of Britain and Europe with North Africa and the Middle East. 1984, over 1000 birds ill. in colour 825 distr. maps. bound.15) Fitter, R.: Collins Guide to Bird watching.1963, ill. cloth, DJ.16) Fisher, J.: The Shell Bird Book.1966, fully ill. cloth, DJ. ‎

Reference : 67485aaf

‎Nepal / Tibet.- Lot of 10 books together.‎

‎1) Himalayan gourmet, Varanasi, Jauhari Printing Press, 1985, 280 p., cartonnage original. / 2) WOLFF, Klaus: India, Nepal, Frankfurt, Karto + Grafik, 1988, 224 p. + Travel map, a lot of photographies, cartonnage original. / 3) BAIDYA, Karunakar: Teach Yourself Nepali, New Delhi, Delux Offset Press, 1982, 111 p., cartonnage original. / 4) WOODHATCH, Tom: Nepal Handbook, Footprint Handbooks, 1997, brochure original. / 5) MORAN, Kerry: Nepal Handbook, USA, Moon Publications, Inc., 1992, ill., 388 p., cartonnage original. 6) ARMINGTON, Stan: Trekking in the Nepal Himalaya, Indonesia, Pac-Rim Kwartanusa Printing, 1997, ill., 432 p., cartonnage original. / 7) 6) WILSON, A.: The abode of snow. Observations on a tour from Chinese Tibet to the Indian Caucasus, through the upper valleys of the Himalaya. Kathmandu, Ratna Pustak Bhandar, 1979, 380 p. / 8) MAJUPURIA, Trilok Chandra: Nepal Nature’s Paradise. Insight into diverse facets of topography, flora & ecology. With 114 colour, 150 black/white pictures, 85 line-drawings, 98 tables, 29 maps). Bangkok, White Lotus, 1985, 476 p./ 9) Murphy, D.: Tibetan Foothold. 1968. / 19) (Gompertz, M. (pseud.:) GANPAT: Zhe road to Lamaland Impressions of a journay to western Thibet. NY, Doran n.d. ca. 1916, cloth / ‎

Reference : 15963aaf

‎Illustrated Books, Keepsake. - ‎

‎Lot of 2 books.‎

‎1) The Keepsake 1851 ed. by Miss Power with engraving by Fred. A. Heath. 272 p., 12 engr., ill. cloth / 2) Idem, 1838. 272 p., 11 engravings. ‎

Reference : 66229aaf

‎Engravings catalogues. Lot of 2 books.‎

‎1) Engravings, etchings and drawings. By Early and Modern Masters. Catalogue N° 539. London, Maggs Bros. 1930. 144 p., ill., orig. wrappers. / 2) An illustrated catalogue of fine and rare books. Illuminated and other manuscripts, early printed books, autograph letters and historical domuments and a selection of scarce engraved portraits. London, Myers & Co, 1926. 152 p. ill. + plates, orig. half clothbd. ‎

Reference : 59632aaf

‎Bird books. Lot of 8 books.‎

‎ small legacy -stamp Dr. Guggisberg, orig. cloth.‎

‎1) INGRAM, Collingwood: In search of birds. London, Witherby, 1966. 286 p., with DJ. / 2) BRANDON-COX, Hugh: Summer of a million wings. Arctic quest for the sea eagle. Great Britain, David & Charles, 1974. 184 p., ill. with photographs and sketches by the author, with DJ. / 3) LOCKLEY, R. M. : I know an island. London, George G. Harrap, 1938. 299 p.,+ photographic plates. / 4) YEATES, G. K. : The land of the loon. Being the experiences of a bird-photographer on two visits to iceland in search of the great nothern diver. London, Country Life, 1951. 156 p., + photographic plates. / 5) PERRY, Richard: Shetland Sanctuary. Birds of the Isle of Noss. London, Faber, 1948. 300 p., +1 folded map. / 6) ARMSTRONG, E. A. : Birds of the Grey Wind. London, Lindsay Drummond, 1946. 173 p., + photographic plates. / 7) WARE, E. H. : Wing to wing. Bird-Watching Adventures at Home and Abroad. London, The Paternoster Press, 1946. 159 p., + photographic plates. / 8) WILLIAMS, Roland: Where the World is Quiet. London, Witherby, 1965. 224 p., ill. with colour photographs and endpaper maps by the author, with DJ. ‎

Reference : 82099aaf

‎Medicine. - History of. Lot of 6 books.‎

‎ In-4to, Richly illustr. books. Exlibrtis Rohan ORahilly, clothbound with jacket‎

‎1) P. Murray Jones: Medieval medical miniatures. Austin, Univ. Texas Press, 1984. 144 p., ill.2) O.L. Bettmann: A pictorial history of medicine. With foreword by P.S. Hench. Illinois, Charles & Thomas, 1972. XIII + 318 p., ill.3) B. Knight: Discovering the human body. New York, Lippincott & Crowell, 1980. 192 p., ill.4) Images of healing. A Portfolio of American medical & pharmaceutical practice in the 18th, 19th, & early 20th centuries. New York, macmillan, 1980. 144 p., ill.5) R. Beverly Hale & T. Coyle: Albinus on anatomy. new York, Watson-Guptill, 1979.208 p., ill.6) The anatomical plates of Pietro da Cortona. 27 baroque masterpieces. With introd. J.M. Norman. New York, Dover, 1986. ‎

Reference : 94950aaf

‎Catlin / La Farge:‎

‎American Indian. - Lot of 2 books.‎

‎ 1956, in-4to, ‎

‎McCRACKEN, Harold: George Catlin and the Old Frontier. Dial Press 1959.216 p., richly ill. Publ. pict. cloth with jacket in colour / LAFARGE, Oliver: A pictorial history of the American Indian. London. Spring Books 1956.256 p. cloth. ‎

Reference : 10659aaf

‎America, United States. -‎

‎Lot of 10 books.‎

‎1) Urdang: The timetables of American History 1981, 470 p. / 2) Silberschmidt: The US and Europe. Rivals and Partners / 3) History of Wildlife in America. 1975 / 4) Vacationland U.S.A. National Geographic Society. 500 illustrations in color, 18 maps. 1970, in-4°, rel., jaq. orig. / 5) Bern Keating: The Mighty Mississippi. Photographs by James L. Stanfield. National Geographic Society, 1971, in-4°, rel. /6) Herbert Agar: The United States. The presidents, the parties & the constitution. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950, gr. in-8°, rel. /7) James Truslow Adams: The Epic of America. Illustrated. London, George Routledge, 1933, gr. in-8°, rel. / + 3 others. ‎

Reference : 12228aaf

‎History. -‎

‎Lot of 3 books.‎

‎1) Trevelyan, G. M.: History of England. With maps. London, Longmans, 1941, big in-8°, bound. 2) Mackinder, M. A.: Britain and the British Seas. With maps and diagrams. London, William Heinemann, 1902, big in-8°, bound. 3) Hayes, J.H. & Baldwin, M. W. & Cole, Ch. W.: History of Western Civilization. London, Macmillan, 1962, in-4°, bound. ‎

Reference : 12881aaf

‎Latin America. -‎

‎Lot of 5 books. ‎

‎1) The new world guides to the latin american Republics. Volume 1: Mexico, central America, west Indies. New-York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1950, illustrated. cloth. / 2) 1991. Mexico & central american handbook. New-York, Trade & Travel, 1990, 688 p., illustrated, paper. / 3) Pendle, G.: Uruguay. South America's first welfare state. London, New-York, Royal Institut of International Affairs, 100 p., cloth. / 4) Bennett, W.C., Bird, J.B.: Andean culture history. New-York, American Museum of Natural History, 1960, 328 p., illustrated, cloth. / 5) Bernal, I.: The mexican national museum of anthropology. Mexico, Lara, 1968, 216 p., with 171 illustrations, 26 in colour, paper. ‎

Reference : 14632aaf

‎Airplanes, aviation. -‎

‎Lot of 5 books.‎

‎1) Leeuw, H. de: Conquest of the air. The history and future of aviation. N.-Y., 1960, 300 p., ill. cloth. / 2) Whitehouse, A.: The real book about airplanes. Ill. by A. Orbaan. N.-Y., 1952, 190 p., cloth. / 3) Richardson, D.: Battle zone. Fighters of the Nato Allies. London, 1989, 80 p., illust. / 4) Walters, B.: The illustrated history of air travel. London, 1979, in-4°, 185 p., cloth, jacket. / 5) Dwiggins: The air devils. Story of Balloonists, Barnstormers, and Stunt Pilots. 1966.226 p., ill. Clothbound ‎

Reference : 16074aaf

‎Australia. -Lot of 5 books. 1) Australia, this land - these people. Sydney, The Reader's Digest Ass., 1971, 359 p., fully ill. in colour, clothbound, orig. jack. / 2) Australia reaching out. 1987, 398 p., fully ill. in colour, cart. / 3) Pratt, A. (Ed.): The National Handbook of Australia's industries. Melbourne, 1934, 671 p., ill. 4) Rawson, G.: Australia. 1948, 190 p., plates.5) Sydney and surroundings. M.S.W. All images of Sydney early this century. ca. 1930.‎

‎ In-4°, gr. in-4°. ‎

‎1) Australia, this land - these people. Sydney, The Reader's Digest Ass., 1971, 359 p., fully ill. in colour, clothbound, orig. jack. / 2) Australia reaching out. 1987, 398 p., fully ill. in colour, cart. / 3) Pratt, A. (Ed.): The National Handbook of Australia's industries. Melbourne, 1934, 671 p., ill. 4) Rawson, G.: Australia. 1948, 190 p., plates.5) Sydney and surroundings. M.S.W. All images of Sydney early this century. ca. 1930. ‎