Winter 2026 Mini-Catalogue
SOME FINE BIRD BOOKS
Welcome to the preview of our Winter 2026 mini-catalogue: Some Fine Bird Books. We are pleased to offer preferred individual and institutional clients an opportunity to view these items before offering them to the wider public.
If you wish, you may purchase any of the items directly from our online shop. Note that due to their weight, size and the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, shipping rates and times may need to be adjusted after purchase.
If you wish to register your interest pending authorisation, please send a brief email to ray@rayvanwykrarebooks.com or fill in the enquiry form at the bottom of each catalogue entry.
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.
The most splendid book on the sun-birds ever produced
A Monograph of the Nectariniidae
A finely bound presentation copy of Shelley's ode to the sunbirds.
Illustrated by J.G. Keulemans with 121 hand coloured plates.
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.