Poyser london (524 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. xviii, 356pp, with delightful black and white illustrations, maps, charts etc. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Brown endpapers. 8vo. Cloth slightly pushed at spine ends, very slight lean, else neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original illustrated glossy dust wrapper, a little bumped on extreme edges, compressed around spine. Keith Brockie (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Book in green boards and color plover-illustration jacket in new mylar cover have minor shelf-wear, tight, bright, and unmarked. A nice copy of this handsome, well-made volume.

Hardcover. Condizione: VG- (Very Good Minus). Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Green boards with trace edgewear and barely bumped spine ends; 4" diagonal crease to front board. Jacket has trace edgewear and light creasing to front panel; flaps not clipped. Binding sound, interior clean. B/w illustrations. No prev owner names, stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. 422 pp.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. 349 pages. b/w illustrations throughout. Original dust jacket fine, not price-clipped, but protected in clear non-removable archival film. Hard back binding fine. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions, no foxing. A fine copy. Size: 8vo. Willis, Ian (illustratore). Book.…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 2013). 2013 1st edition. Large 8vo (159 x 240mm). Pp256,viii[plates]. Colour photograph plates and illustrations, b/w illustrations from old engravings, bibliography. Blue boards. Fine unread copy in dust-wrapper. A history of hunting and trapping birds in Britain - wildfowling, falconry, bird-trapping, egg-collecting, punt-gunning, duck decoys, game shooting. Chapters include: Uses of wild birds; Fowling methods; Regulations and seasons; Herons, spoonbills and cranes; Wildfowl; gamebirds; Waders; Seabirds; Passerines; Cagebirds and collecting; The plumage trade; Some conclusions. Appendices give: Status of some Grey Heronries in England and Wales; Duck decoys in England and Wales; Introductions and releases of Red-legged Partridges in Britain; Ancient colonies of the Black-headed Gull in England and Wales; Currency, weights and measures; Scientific names of species mentioned in the text. PREVIOUS PRICE GBP 50.00.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First edition, first printing. 398pp, with eight colour plates and numerous further monochrome plates, charts and diagrams in text. Brown cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Brown endpapers. 8vo. Gift inscription neatly inked opposite the title page else volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. Glossy, illustrated dust jacket, not price clipped, a tad bumped on extreme edges and slightly grainy on spine. Willis, Ian (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 192pp, 160pp black and white photographic plates. Grey cloth-covered boards. 8vo. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket spine slightly sun faded, protected by mylar jacket; not adhered, but taped. Extensively revised and reset throughout with a further eight species of gulls occurring on the west coasts of Canada and the USA added. Grant, P J (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. London: T & AD Poyser, 1994. Dust dacket has light spine tips scuff, book like new. Color and b&w photos, illustrations, 319 pages. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/Very Good.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1990). 1990 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Ppviii,349. B/w photographs and illustrations, maps, bibliography. Red boards, spine titled in gilt. Slight stains to edges, wave to pages from former exposure to damp, smells slightly musty. Working copy in soiled dust-wrapper. Published for The Nature Conservancy Council and The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. "The various Red Data Books prepared by the IUCN and ICBP have set the standards for recognizing birds close to or at risk of extinction worldwide. This book, by focusing on vulnerable species living in or visiting Britain, sets out to define the British situation and to clearly establish both the importance of British populations and our own responsibilities for contributing to bird conservation." Chapters include: Area of coverage, British avifauna, criteria for selection, species selected and future candidates, contents of species texts; Species texts; Bird habitats in Britain; Threats to bird survival in Britain; Bird conservation in Britain; Future action for birds; Appendices give, population estimates, species list, candidate species. .…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Binding sound and tight, free of markings. Minor bumps to corners. DJ bright, shiny and unclipped, minor corner bumps and crimping along top edges. Tear-free. 355pp. Size: 4to. Keith Brockie (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Second Edition. First reprint of the second edition; some edge wear to boards and dust jacket; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; well illustrated with drawings by the author, black and white photographs and maps showing gull distribution ranges. Book. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Loosely inserted in their printed folder are the "Transparent Overlays of Environmental Factors." 374 pages. Colour frontispeice & b/w illustrations throughout. Original dust jacket near fine, yellowed, not price-clipped. Hard back binding fine. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions, no foxing. A near fine bright copy. Size: 4to. Robert Gillmor, Leslie Baker, Hilary Burn, D. J. F. Coombs, Crispin Fisher, P. J. Grant, R. A. Richardson, D. A. Thelwell, Donald Watson and Ian Willis (illustratore). Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. London: T. & A.D. Poyser, Ltd., 1998. 456pp. ills., photos. The four species of tundra plovers are examined through taxonomy, variation, plumages and moults; phylogeny and biogeography; breeding distribution, population trends and status; nesting, social and parental behavior, migrations, nonbreeding distribution, behavior and ecology; diet, associations with other birds. Appendices, bibliography, index. Hardcover. New/New. Illus. by Byrkjedal, I (ill.). Byrkjedal, I (ill.) (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. London: T & AD Poyser, 1994. Nice copy, dust jacket with no chips or rips. Color and b&w photos, illustrations, 319 pages. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. London: T & AD Poyser, 1994. Color and b&w photos, illustrations, 319 pages. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: VG+. Condizione sovraccoperta: VG. 1st. 349 pages. Sl. shelf wear to top edge of DW. Ian Willis (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st edition. 1st edition, 1996. A Near Fine book. 8vo., 460 pp., bound in publishers illustrated cloth. Minor signs of shelf wear only; text appears unmarked.

29 cm. XIV, 520 Seiten, mit Verbreitungskarten und Vogelpoträts illustriert. Leinen mit Schutzumschlag.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. Small dust spotting on jacket. Ian Willis (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 2nd Printing; 479 clean, unmarked pages; dj w/lite wear only; includes folder with transparency overlays of environmental factors, and a booklet of bird lists.will not fit in priority envelope. Color & b&w (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Second Edition. 280 pages; b/w illustrations by the author; tables, maps and photos. Dust jacket very good, minimal if any fading to the spine, not price-clipped. Hardback binding fine. Contents clean and tight, unmarked, no inscriptions. A fine copy. Provenance: from the library of John Mitchell with small blue bookplate, featuring a peregrine, to the inside front cover "From the library of John Mitchell, author and naturalist"; Mitchell wrote New Naturalist No. 88 Loch Lomondside. Size: 8vo. Grant, P. J. (illustratore). Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. This is a Near Fine Copy of this Book in Publisher's brown cloth with gilt title lettering to spine in a Near Fine Dust-Jacket,which has NO chips or tears to the outer edges of the wrapper.Price clipped and this copy has one small owner's address ticket to the front endpaper.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.Well illustrated work.Lovely clean copy for the collector with crisp white page edges.Illusdtrated with many drawings and some 32 [pages of photographs in black and white,8vo 336pp First Edition 1st Impression [1978].…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. 192pp, plus a large section of black and white plate illustrations, further illustrations in text. Green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles. Mustard endpapers. 8vo. Cloth a little rounded at corners and spine ends else volume is neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original glossy dust wrapper, a little shelf worn, gently bumped on extreme edges and tad dust dulled in margins.…

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. Major work done in Scotland tho does cover North America. As NEW copy unread. Fresh bright clean jacket. Tight clean boards. Fresh clean unmarked text. Gift Worthy. Illustrated (illustratore).

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine: solid, straight, clean, unmarked, lowr corners very slightly bumped, in clean jacket very lightly rubbed (see our photo), apparently unopened. Hardcover in jacket, 26 cm (10.25 in.) tall, xxxiii, 422 pages, colour plate frontispiece. . . . …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. 1st Edition. 8vo. pp 305. Frontispiece; monochrome illustrations and maps in the text. No dust jacket. Maroon cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Maroon endpapers. Boards with small rubbed patch to rear, but otherwise with no significant signs of wear. A few light marks to edges of text block. Internally clean. Binding firm.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Minor shelf wear to book and dust jacket. Owner name blacked out on front end paper. Owner embossed stamp on title page. B/w illustrations. Index. xii, 299 pp.

1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 288pp, illustrated, clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper. not price-clipped. ISBN: 0856610550.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 2022). 2022 1st paperback edition. 8vo (161 x 240mm). Pp304. Illustrated with b&w drawings by John Davis. Paperback with flaps. Small ink-spot to top edge but a fine unread copy. A classic Poyser monograph, exploring the natural history of the tawny owl in great detail. . …

Condizione: Very Good. 349, 24 b/w photos, line drawings. . HB. Vg in d/w. Owner's name to endpaper. First edition. Focuses on vulnerable species which live in or visit Britain, and sets out to define the British situation in a worldwide context, by establishing the importance of British populations and our own responsibilities for contributing to bird conservation. It identifies 117 species under threat, and includes not only those species which occur in small numbers, but those which, although common in Britain or Europe, have restricted distribution elsewhere. Each species account provides up to date information on current populations, basic ecology, the threats faced and the legal protection and conservation measures in force. There are also general chapters on the state of Britain's habitats, legal matters and conservation action for the future. [9780856610561].…