evelyn v baxter (35 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. 1st Edition. Hardcover first printing with dustjacket, this is Volume 2 only, book is in nearly new condition, a minor bump to the bottom corner is the only flaw, dustjacket is quite nice also, very clean and pleasing to the eye, the original price is present and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, a small edge-chip at the top of the front panel and light wear at top edge of spine are the only flaws, illustrated with a color frontis and black and white photographs, including a mounted photo on the front panel of the dustjacket, bibliography and index.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Eric J. Hosking, Robert M. Adam et al (illustratore). 1st Edition. Small 4to, pp357-pp763 complete with colour frontispiece by George E. Lodge and 13 /b/w plates by Eric J. Hosking, Robert M. Adam et al. Hardcover no dust jacket. Original green publishers buckram binding with gilt titles to spine in very good condition with minor shelf wear to top of spine. Inside discreet Ex library copy with blind stamps to outside boarder of plates and bookplate to front paste down. All pages and plates with dyed top edge in excellent, clean condition. A very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 1st Edition. Sm 4to, liii + pp352 complete with colour frontispiece and 11 b/w plates. Hardcover with dust jacket. DJ in protective sleeve in fair/good condition with chipping to top of spine and bottom half missing, the rest of DJ is present and in good condition. Dark green buckram binding with gilt titles to spine in very good condition with a little shelf wear to top and tail of spine. Inside 2 bookplates from The Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society to paste downs and library number to back of title page. All other pages and plates in excellent clean and bright condition with blind stamps to borders of plates.

Original Green Cloth Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 1935. lv, 397pp. 18 illustrations and map. Folding map to rear. Contents include: Description of the area from a faunal standpoint; Effects of environment on animal life in Forth; Bird migration in Forth; Biliography; Mammals; Birds; Reptiles and Amphibians; Fishes; and an Index. Book has gilt titles to spine. Light wear to corners and minor fading to spine. Very slight foxing to front edge. Ex-library(Royal Forth Yacht Club) book with book plate to front pastedown. Small, embossed stamp to bottom of title pg. Pages beginning to brown ever-so-slightly. Upper board slightly affected by recent flood but still very good.Overall in VG condition with no inscriptions. Heavy book so extra postage may be necessary for non-UK customers.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, xlix + pp397 plus 16 b/w photographic plates (including frontispiece) and 1 pull out colour map at rear in very good condition. Hardcover no dust jacket. Original green buckram binding with gilt lettering to spine in very good condition with a little sunning to spine and bumping to tips of boards. Inside in very good clean condition with personal bookplate of previous owner to front paste down and with no aging or foxing at all. A very nice copy. This is a heavy book and extra postage may be required for overseas.

Original Green Cloth Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 1935. lv, 397pp. 18 illustrations and map. Folding colour cloth backed map to rear. Contents include: Description of the area from a faunal standpoint; Effects of environment on animal life in Forth; Bird migration in Forth; Biliography; Mammals; Birds; Reptiles and Amphibians; Fishes; and an Index. Book has gilt titles to spine. Light wear to corners and minor fading to spine. Previous owner's name to ffep. PLEASE NOTE: Heavy book so extra postage may be necessary for non-UK customers.

hardcover. 1935 First Edition. 397pp, + Map, original green cloth, slight wear to head and tail of spine, light sunning to spine, corners bumped, VG. . Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Attractively rebound in half buckram over marbled boards/ The binding is tight and strong and the text looks clean.

Cloth. Condizione: VG+. First Edition. Deaccessioned from non-circulating museum library, nominally marked/stamped, clear-coated spine panel (lightly age-toned) with hand-written call number on lower portion. Dark green cloth, lettered in gilt, with deckled edges, top edge in gilt. lv,397 pp., illus. with 18 b&w plates, foldout color map at rear. Only slight shelf wear. Complimentary publisher's slip laid in. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, viii + pp425 plus map frontispiece. Hardcover with dust jacket. DJ in protective sleeve in very good condition with small chip missing from bottom of spine. Binding of green buckram with gilt titles to spine in excellent condition with small bump to bottom of spine. Inside all pages and map frontis with top edge gilt in very good clean and bright condition. A very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. Boards are generally in good order. Very slight bumping to corners. Spine is intact and bright with just a little mild bumping to ends. Textblock is in good condition, clean and tight. Infrequent annotations to the textblock in ink. Pagination: vi, 425 pp. Beige paper dust jacket with black lettering to spine and front. Djs are in a good condition albeit with some mild creasing to the edges. Some spotting. Spine area is age darkened. Now protected by a removable plastic sleeve. Additional photos are available upon request. When securely packed this item will weigh in the region of 918g. Unless specifically mentioned, all our books are photographed so you can see what you are buying. ABE may, however, display a stock image whilst processing ours. (YBP Ref: 034102:13e) Size: 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" Tall Language: ENG 918 G. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages Clear And Bright, Binding Tight And Secure.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Publisher - Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1935. 1st ed. Very good condition, dark green boards with sunned spine with gilt lettering, old damp stains to upper boards, corners bumped. No marks or inscriptions. Pages rough cut and with slightly browned edges. Solid binding. B/w frontispiece of a kingfisher, 14 further plates, folding map. Heavy book - extra postage required.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jackets. 1st. First edition 2 volume hardback set, 1953, with no jackets. In overall good-to-very good used condition with minor signs of age, handling and storage - green cloth boards a touch shelfworn. Internally clean. Bindings tight and appear little read, no annotations or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Not old library books. Photograph available.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. Two hardcover volumes in very good condition. Color frontispieces, black and white photographs. Vol. One, 1-352 pp. Vol. Two, 357-763 pp. Color fold-out map. History, distribution, and migration of Scottish birds. Bookplate of M.H. Mitchell on ffep of both volumes.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Oliver and Boyd, 1953. Two volumes, hardback, d/js, 8vo, liii,352;[iv],357-763pp, folding map, illust. Date in ink, endpapers and edges a little spotted/foxed, slightly bumped, d/js a little spotted and frayed. A fair set. /2.4uk.

First edition. viii + 425pp; frontispiece map. Original green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Slight damage to backstrip, not affecting inner hinge. No inscriptions. Contents VG .

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Complete with Linen-baacked Fold-out Colour Map at the back. Includes Bird Migration, Mammals, Environment. Well illustrated with 17 B&W Photos. Frontis illustrated with a Kingfisher. 397 Pages, 9 1/4" Tall. Slight edge wear.No inscriptions. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Large octavo, pp lv, [1], 397. 18 illustrations to 16 plates, including frontispiece and colour fold-out map. Finely reeded bottle green cloth with gilt titles to spine, in unclipped cream pictorial dust-jacket. A little minor foxing to textblock edge and prelims; no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket lightly surface soiled with a few nicks & creases, 1-inch closed tear top front edge, and 1-inch square loss (approx) to rear. A Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Scarce in dust-jacket. Detailed study of the natural history of the Lothian, Fife and Stirling area of the River Forth, including mammals, birds and habitat. The Vertebrate Fauna of Scotland was begun by J A Harvie-Brown intending to study each river catchment area in the country; some areas were completed by other naturalists as he died before his work was finished, and Rintoul and Baxter were requested to take up the task.

Hardback. Condizione: VG. Condizione sovraccoperta: VG- DW. 1st Edition. Books are in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Slight damp marks at top of spine of Volume 1. Entire bright DWs have unmarked spines but are noticeably spotted to covers. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY (GB 2021 £8) Packed weight 2600g.

First Edition. Volumes 1 & 2, both 1953 1st editions. Both clean, tidy copies in tight binding. Spine heads bumped. Dust jackets not price-clipped; spine of vol. 1 slightly faded. This is a heavy set(about 2.6kg packed); additional postage may be required outside the UK. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. 1953. FIRST EDITION. OLIVER AND BOYD. TWO HARDBACK VOLUMES IN VERY GOOD + CONDITION WITH DUST WRAPPERS IN GOOD CONDITION. ILLUSTRATED WITH COLOUR FRONTISPIECES AND 24 PHOTOGRAPHS OVERALL. ATTRACTIVE MID GREEN BOARDS WITH GILT LETTERING TO SPINE. TWO SMALL AREAS OF MILD WEAR TO BACK BOARD OF VOLUME TWO AND BUMPING TO SPINES. SPOTTING AND MILD TONING TO ENDPAPERS. FOXING, TWO SMALL NICKS AND WEAR TO DUST WRAPPERS. WRAPPERS ARE UNCLIPPED. MILD WRINKLING TO TOP OF VOLUME ONE WRAPPER. A CREASE PARALLEL TO THE FOLD OVER SECTION OF VOLUME TWO'S WRAPPER (PLEASE SEE PHOTO). HOWEVER THIS IS ALL COMMENSURATE WITH THE BOOKS' CLASSIFICATION AS VERY GOOD + AND THE WRAPPERS AS GOOD. A HEAVY ITEM SO PLEASE CONTACT SELLER IN RESPECT OF EXACT POSTAGE RATES, THANK YOU. OVERALL THESE ARE NICE CLEAN PRESENTABLE COPIES OF THIS STANDARD WORK.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Not Stated (illustratore). First edition. A first edition copy of this illustrated work on animal life in Forth, by the Scottish ornithologists and lifelong friends Rintoul and Baxter. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, seventeen images across fifteen plates, the odd in-text image, and a colour folding map to the rear. Collated complete. A comprehensive study on vertebrate fauna in Forth, Scotland, which covers mammals, birds, bird migration, reptiles, amphibians and fish. Providing detailed descriptions of different areas from a faunal standpoint and exploring the relationship between the different animals and the landscape. Written by Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul, a Scottish ornithologist and rare female member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and Evelyn Vida Baxter, a Scottish naturalist and ornithologist, and the first woman to receive Union Medal of the British Ornithological Union. The pair are closely associated and considered "constant partners" in their co-authorship of works. They were lifelong friends, and together they studied bird migration for twenty years, which led to several publications, including renowned work The Birds of Scotland in 1953. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear to the extremities and light fading to the spine. The odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting. Further spotting to the first and last few pages. Very Good. book.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Not Stated (illustratore). First edition. A first edition copy of this illustrated work on animal life in Forth, by the Scottish ornithologists and lifelong friends Rintoul and Baxter. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Illustrated with a frontispiece, fifteen further plates, and a folding colour map to the rear. Collated, complete. Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul (1878-1953) and Evelyn Vida Baxter (1879-1959) were Scottish ornithologists. Rintoul was a rare female member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Baxter was the first woman to receive Union Medal of the British Ornithological Union. They were lifelong friends, and together they studied bird migration for 20 years, which led to several publications, including The Birds of Scotland in 1953. This is their work on vertebrate fauna in Forth, Scotland, which covers mammals, birds, bird migration, reptiles, amphibians and fish. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, fairly smart, with a few small marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Very Good. book.

Leatherbound. Condizione: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 100. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1922 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 100.

Leatherbound. Condizione: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 92. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1912 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 92.

Edinburgh, 1953. 2 vols. LIII,763 pp. Ills. Cloth,d/j.Jackets slightly soiled.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Royal8vo, pp,viii,425, map frontispiece, uncut, gilt titled green cloth slightly soiled in parts, t.e.g, head and tail of spine a little rubbed, two corners of boards slightly bumped, early names on half-title, some mild foxing, a very good copy.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good Indeed. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. None (illustratore). First edition. The first edition of this ornithological study on Scottish birds by Evelyn V. Baxter and Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul, with the original very scarce dust wrapper. The first edition.In the publisher's original cloth with the original very scarce unclipped dust wrapper.Illustrated with a frontispiece map.This study was written by Scottish ornithologists Evelyn V. Baxter and Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul. The two ornithologists often worked together, co- writing other works such as 'Birds of Scotland'. Both women were upstanding ornithologists with Baxter being the first women to receive the 'Union Medal of the British Ornithological Union' and Rintoul being a member of the 'Royal Society of Edinburgh', which was rare for women at the time. This work provides a study of Scottish birds, documenting their status in various locations to determine if the birds were visitors to the area, migrating, breading or natives. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally excellent with bumping to the tail of the spine and to the extremities to the boards and slight marks to the rear. Very light scattered spotting to the endpapers. The wrap is very smart with sunning to the spine, handling marks, chipping and the odd small closed tear. Internally firmly bound with generally bright and clean pages with the odd minor spot only. Very Good Indeed. book.

Cloth. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Not Stated (illustratore). First edition. A very smart complete two volume set of the first editions of Baxter and Rintoul's illustrated extensive study on Scottish ornithology, in the original dust wrappers. Complete in two volumes.In the original black cloth binding. In the original unclipped dust wrappers.A chronicle of the history, present distribution, and migration of all the birds of Scotland, trailing around the beautiful country from the south-west up to Caithness.The authors, Evelyn V. Baxter and Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul, look into the idea that the bird-life of Scotland fluctuates considerably, and more than any other European country.Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece to each volume, one colour folding map to the rear of Volume II, eleven monochrome plates to Volume I, and thirteen monochrome plates to Volume II. Collated, complete.Rintoul and Baxter were lifelong friends and co-authors of various ornithological works. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. In the original unclipped dust wrappers. Externally, excellent. Just minor shelf wear to the heads and tails of the spines. Dust wrappers are very smart, with just minor shelf wear to extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine. book.