Winter 2026 Catalogue
SOME FINE BIRD BOOKS
Welcome our Winter 2026 catalogue: Some Fine Bird Books.
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The quiet glory of the swallows
A Monograph of the Hirundinidae
An important and comprehensive, two-volume work on the swallows.
With Scottish royal provenance.
Captain George Ernest Shelley's first book on birds
Handbook of the Birds of Egypt
With coloured plates by J.G. Keulemans
Anglo-Egyptian and Anglo-Boer War provenance
PLOVERS, SANDPIPERS, SNIPES, AND THEIR ALLIES
The Geographical Distribution of the Family Charadriidae
A meticulous work by a meticulous and prolific ornithologist, illustrated by J.G. Keulemans.
A remarkable collection of eggs
Ootheca Wolleyana
A scarce work by one of the great unsung heroes of ornithological research into the life and extinction of the Great Auk.
A standard early 20th century work
A Monograph of the Birds of Prey
Attractively bound and generously illustrated by H. Gronvold.
A standard refrence on raptors.
An inspired work
A Monograph of the Pittidae
A near fine, first edition copy D.G. Elliot's masterwork of illustration - the scarcest of his monographs.