1975-2005 A Collection of Ornithology Works

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

All first editions, first impressions, with the exception of 'The Peregrine Falcon' which is a second edition.

All complete with the publisher's original unclipped dust wrappers.  

Containing fifteen volumes in total published by T & A D Poyser, ranging from species-specific studies to wider regional birds, such as the Arctic and forests. With chapters exploring habits, populations, movement patterns, defining characteristics and origins. 

Each volume is illustrated with many in-text illustrations and figures, as well as a number of monochrome or coloured plates as detailed below. 

The entirety of this set includes the following titles:

Pine Crossbills by Desmond Nethersole-Thompson (1975) - Sixteen monochrome plates 

The Hen Harrier by Donald Watson (1977) 

The Bee-Eaters by C. H. Fry (1984) - Eight colour plates 

The Sparrowhawk by Ian Newton (1986) - Twenty-four monochrome plates 

Waders: their breeding, haunts and watchers by Desmond and Maimie Nethersole-Thompson (1986) - Twenty-four monochrome plates 

Birds and Forestry by Mark Avery and Roderick Leslie (1990)

The Kestrel by Andrew Village (1990) 

The Manx Shearwater by Michael Brooke (1990) 

The Herons of Europe by Claire Voisin (1991) - Four colour plates 

In Search of Arctic Birds by Richard Vaughan (1992) 

Great Auk Islands: A field biologist in the Arctic (1993) - Eight colour plates 

The Peregrine Falcon by Derek Ratcliffe (1993) - Four colour plates 

The Nuthatches by Erik Matthysen (1998) 

The Skylark by Paul F. Donald (2004) - Eight colour plates 

Naturalised Birds of the World by Christopher Lever (2005)

Collated, complete.