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Yarrell, William. A HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS 1843. 3 volumes. John Van Voorst, London, 1843.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: London: John Van Voorst. Collectible-Acceptable/NO DUSTJACKET. 1843. Hardcover. two bookplates . 8vo., Leather spines rubbed, inside hinge broken, spine labels worn . Collectible-Acceptable/NO DUSTJACKET
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.
Yarrell, William. A History of British Birds. Volume III Odd volume. John Van Voorst, London, 1843.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Octavo. Volume 3 only. [5], 276 pages, [3]. Illustrated. Half green leather and marbled paper covered boards. Gilt tile and raised bands on the spine. Marbled end sheets and faded marbled text edges. Paper covered boards are shelf worn. Light rubs to the leather spine and edges. Light scattered foxing to the front and rear end sheets. The spine has "V" for the volume 3 which is in error. There are only three volumes stated for this 1843 edition. Several blank pages bound in the text. Some of these pages have early bird watcher notes written in fine hand. Previous owner inscription written top of the title page. Volume 3 only.
Seller: Americana Books, ABAA, Stone Mt, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$119.21 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Volume I: Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Shelfwear to boards. Front board is present but detached. Corners bumped and worn. Wear to board edges and especially along the spine edges where the cloth is splitting. Spine is rather tatty and coming loose. Spine is faded. Page edges are rather grubby. Marbled endpages. Front inner hinge has failed. Rear inner hinge is cracked but holding. Textblock is starting to crack. Textblock has one or two grubby marks but is generally clean. 525 pp. Illustrated throughout. Volume II: Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Shelfwear to boards. Corners bumped and worn. Wear to board edges and especially along the spine edges where the cloth is splitting. Spine is rather tatty and coming loose. Spine is faded. Page edges are rather grubby. Marbled endpages. Previous owner's mark. Front inner hinge is starting to crack. Rear inner hinge is starting to crack. Textblock is starting to crack. Textblock has one or two grubby marks but is generally clean. 669 pp. Illustrated throughout. Volume III: Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Shelfwear to boards. Rear board is present but detached. Corners bumped and worn. Wear to board edges and especially along the spine edges where the cloth is splitting. Spine is rather tatty and coming loose. Spine is faded, with some loss. Page edges are rather grubby. Age discolouration to endpages. Front inner hinge is cracked but holding. Rear inner hinge has failed. Textblock is starting to crack. Textblock has one or two grubby marks but is generally clean. 581 pp. Illustrated throughout. Second Supplement: Beige card boards with black lettering to spine and front. Boards are generally in good order, just a little grubby. Rear board is coming loose from spine. Wear to board edges. Only fragments of the spine remain. Slight foxing to textblock. 71 pp. 18 black and white illustrations. When securely packed this item will weigh in the region of 3251g. Postage within the UK remains at £3. For international orders ABE use an estimate based on a 1kg book. Where a book is lighter/heavier, we will reduce/request additional postage accordingly. We make no profit on postal charges. We expect a parcel of this weight to cost between £22.30 (Europe) and £44.55 (USA) to ship using Royal Mail's International Tracked Service. 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: 025535:1-O9) Size: 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" Tall 3251 G
Seller: YattonBookShop PBFA, Bristol, United Kingdom
William Yarrell. History of British Birds. John Van Voorst, 1843.
Price: US$153.84 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: William Yarrell - History of British Birds - London, John Van Voorst, 3 Vols, second edition, over 500 wood engravings. Yarrell (1784-1856) was an English zoologist, prolific writer, bookseller and naturalist admired by his contemporaries for his precise scientific work. All three volumes are illustrated throughout. Condition: In green cloth bindings with gilt lettering to spine. No foxing to pages. Email for pictures
Seller: PK Bookshop, Holt, NORFO, United Kingdom
YARRELL, William. A History of British Birds. In Three Volumes. London. John Van Voorst. 1843, 1843.
Price: US$168.09 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 21cm, first edition, in 3 volumes,xxxii,525 & 669 & 528pp., with 520 engraved text illustrat-ions, incontemporary full decorated diced calf, raised gilt-ruled bands, gilttitles on morocco labels, gilt decorated in the panel, gilt ruled borderson the diced calf boards, marbled endpapers & edges, spine edges rubbed,light foxing primarily to endpapers, some wear on the board edges andsome occasion worming on the boards, sound, a very good set. (sgc) Freeman 4176. The first book edition of an important 19th centuryornithological study, first appearing in parts from 1837 to 1843, byBritish naturalist, William Yarrell (1784-1856). It remained a standardreference for birds for the rest of the century and was known to havebeen used by Yarrell's colleague, Audubon. The illustrations were drawnby Alexander Fussell and engraved by John Thompson and sons.
Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$225.63 + shipping
Description: 3 volumes; Hardback, 9 x 5.5 inches. Bound in original Original grey / green cloth lettered in gold on spines. Yellow endpapers. In very good conditions. Some minor rubbing on edges, a few faint minor marks, corners lightly bumped. Inside each volume on front endpapers have Private bookplate & owners small stamp (Innes Watson), volume has inscription on front endpaper. Each volume has small half removed name inscription head of each title page. Else pages all clean, crisp and tight throughout. 587, 655 & 651pp. Illustrated by 535 B&W Wood-Engravings. This "History" was an immediate success, and is illustrated with many fine engravings by various artists. Yarrell was a conscientious compiler and editor, and this work belongs in every serious collection of bird books.
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
Yarrell, William. A History of British Birds (3 volumes). John van Voorst, London, 1843.
Price: US$320.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Books - 3 volumes - very good for age (boards rubbed & bumped). Issued in 37 parts between 1837 and 1843. Birds new to Britain were mentioned in the preface when the parts were bound in the 3 volumed 1843 first edition. HEAVY (2.95 kg) - extra postage will be required.
Seller: Calluna Books, Morpeth, United Kingdom
YARRELL WILLIAM. THE HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS. JOHN VAN VOORST. LONDON, 1843.
Price: US$384.60 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, THREE VOLUMES. FINE MODERN THREE QUARTERS MOROCCO BINDING. GILT. 520 TEXT WOODCUTS. A MOST HANDSOME SET. PREVIOUS OWNER'S BOOKPLATE. EXTRA POSTAGE WILL BE REQUIRED.
Seller: Hawkridge Books, Bakewell, United Kingdom
Yarrell, William. A History of British Birds. 3 Volumes.. John Van Voorst, London, 1843.
Price: US$384.60 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Spines sunned, a little scuffing to leather at edges of boards. Pages 311-314 of vol 1 detached but extant, otherwise a tidy set. Size: 8vo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Yarrell, William. A History of British Birds. In three volumes. John van Voorst 1843, London, 1843.
Price: US$448.70 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In 3 volumes. xxxii, 528; 672; 528 pp. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Raised bands to spines with gilt panels & lettering. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Spines bright. Boards clean. Armorial bookplate to front pastedowns. Relevant news-clipping pasted onto first blank. All internally clean. With 520 in-text wood engravings. An attractive set. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Yarrell, William. A History of British Birds. John Van Boorst, London, 1843.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 3 VOLS (1, 2, + 3). 3/4 yellow/brown leather over blue, dark blue, red, and yellow marbled board. Edges of pages are colored in the same marbled pattern as on cover. a few spots on spine are peeling on volumes 1 and 2, though nothing too severe. Pages are in pristine condition without foxing and text remains bright and clear.
Seller: Pleasant Street Books, woodstock, VT, U.S.A.
Yarrell, William. A HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS 3 volumes. John Van Voorst, London, 1843.
Price: US$512.79 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: xxxii, 528; 672; 528 pp. illustrated with 520 wood-engravings. Attractive 12mo Voorst 4pp advert cat. tipped in to the end of volume one. All title-pages dated 1843. ORIGINAL PEBBLE GRAINED GREEN CLOTH. Half-titles present. Original paper labels [soiled]. A LOVELY ORIGINAL SET. Please email for photos. Size: 8vo
Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom
Price: US$576.89 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The three volume first edition of William Yarrell's study of the history of British birds, with the first of two supplement volumes also present. The three volume first edition of in book form of this work, which had initially been serialised over the course of the previous six years. Also present is the 1845 first supplementary volume.Illustrated with numerous vignette wood engravings throughout the four volumes present here, the majority of which were drawn by Alexander Fussell, and engraved by John Thompson.The work of English zoologist, prolific writer, bookseller and naturalist William Yarrell.Yarrell's work features a field guide systematically describing every species of bird known to have occurred in Britain throughout history. Due to the depth of research, Yarrell's series quickly overtook Thomas Bewick's work of the same name to become the standard reference work for a generation of British ornithologists.With four pages of advertisements to the rear of the supplement volume.With the stamp of Clayton S. Allen to the front free endpaper of the first three volumes. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Bumping to back strip heads and tails, with loss of cloth to tail of volume II and supplement back strips, and further minor loss to head of supplement back strip. Tail of front joint of volume II starting, with board holding firm. Rear hinge of volume III and front hinge of supplement strained, but firmly held. Stamp to front free endpaper of first three volumes. Internally, volumes I-III firmly bound. Supplement binding significantly strained to centre. Offsetting to title page of supplement volume, with pages otherwise exceptionally clean and bright. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$635.01 + shipping
Description: In three volumes. First edition. Tall 8vo., contemporary full calf, raised bands, recent leather labels, xxxii, 528; 672; 528; (54)pp. supplement. Profusely illustrated. Rubbing along the spine gutters o/w a very good set.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$740.31 + shipping
Description: 3 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., [v]-xxxii, 525 ie. 531], [1]; 1 p.l., 669 [ie. 671], [1]; 1 p.l., 528. lacking half-titles. c580 wood-engraved text illus. wood-engraved title vignettes. 19th century half calf (bit rubbed, head of spine of Vol. II little chipped). First Edition. Casey Wood p. 639. Freeman 4177. Mullens & Swann pp. 670-71.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$769.19 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original edition of the principal handbook on British Birds published during the 19th C. It is accurate, well written and the illustrations are excellent. Yarrell recorded his subjects in a way that became a model for later authors. Uniformly bound in stiff half vellum over red marbled boards, spines with gilt titles to red calf labels. Bound without the half titles. Internally Vol 1, 1843, [3], (vii-xxxii), [1], 2-528 pp. Vol 2, 1843, [2], [1], 2-672 pp. Vol 3, 1843, [2], [1], 2-528 pp. 1845, [2], [1], 2-53 pp, [1]. 1856, [3], (vi-x), [1], 2-71 pp, [1]. Green marbled endpapers, evidence of bookplate removal to fpds, text block edges reddened 520 wood engravings + 31 in the 2 supplements. (215*133 mm).
Seller: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB), Llandudno, CONWY, United Kingdom
Price: US$897.39 + shipping
Description: Main volumes in uniform half leather and marbled boards, these all with gilt lined leather edges and gilt decorated paneled spine with two gilt on black labels, only flaw is very small chip to marbling bottom Vol.1 front edge and tiny similar just above it, all edges and end-papers marbled. Two Supplements in grey cloth as issued with gilt-lettered spines and blind-stamped borderlines. these both clean and unworn bar touch of slight bumping to top outer corners. Vol.1: xxxii + 525, 520 wood engravings in text; this and all other volumes have heraldic bookplate of Arthur Vardon (motto -Omnum Bonum Dei Donum) plus a brown place-marker, no obvious internal faults; Vol.2: 669 pp.520 wood engravings in text; Vol.3: 528 pp. 520wood engravings in text, no obvious faults; Supplement: t.p. (1, Preface), pp. 53 (inc. Prelims) + 4 (pub.list) , 9 un-numbered wood-engraved large head-pieces plus two tail-pieces; Second Supplement: x + 71, 18 wood-engravings; no obvious faults to either of these. 14 cm x 21.5 cms (main vols), 14.5 cm x 22.5 (Supplements)
Seller: Douglas Books, Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom
William Yarrell. A History of British Birds. John Van Voorst, 1843.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: THIS COMPLETE THREE VOLUME SET IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION BEAUTIFULLY BOUND BY PUBLISHER IN 3/4 CRUSHED GREEN MOROCCO WITH BRIGHT GILT RULE TO BOARDS, SIX COMPARTMENTS AND FIVE RAISED BANDS TO SPINE WITH BRIGHT GILT DETAILS AND TITLE. BOARDS WITH SOME SOILING. BINDING AND HINGES ARE VERY GOOD, MARBLED END PAPERS AND PASTE DOWNS WITH BRIGHT GILT END PAGES. NO LOOSE OR MISSING PAGES, PAGES ARE BRIGHT AND CLEAN, WITHOUT MARKS EXCEPT OWNERS PLATE TO FRONT PASTE DOWNS AND MINIMAL FOXING-CONTAINED MOSTLY TO END PAGES. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED WITH 520 WOOD ENGRAVINGS, BOOKS MEASURE 8.75"x5.5". FIRST EDITION, 178 YEARS OLD. AN ATTRACTIVE SET.
Seller: Reagan's Rare Books, Moseley, VA, U.S.A.
William Yarrell. A History of British Birds. John Van Voorst, London, 1843.
Price: US$948.67 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A complete set of first editions presenting the history of British birds, by William Yarrell, with illustrations throughout. First edition, in a half calf binding with marbled boards.Complete in three volumes. Originally published in bi-monthly installments between 1837 and 1843.The work of English zoologist, prolific writer, bookseller and naturalist William Yarrell. Yarrell's work features a field guide systematically describing every species of bird known to have occurred in Britain throughout history. Due to the depth of research, Yarrell's series quickly overtook Thomas Bewick's work of the same name to become the standard reference work for a generation of British ornithologists. Illustrated with numerous vignette wood engravings throughout, the majority of which were drawn by Alexander Fussell, and engraved by John Thompson. Extra-illustrated, with a colour plate following the index to volume I.With a previous owner's ink inscription to the verso of the front endpaper. Bound in half calf with marbled boards. Contemporary binding with boards rebacked and the spine laid down. Previous owner's ink inscription to the verso of the front endpaper. Externally, smart with slight rubbing to the extremities and joints. The odd mark to leather and boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$2243.48 + shipping
Description: 3 volumes Royal octavo 10 x 6 1/2 inches. First edition with the supplements. MAGNIFICENTLY LEATHER BOUND in full period morocco, spine in 6 compartments with ornate gilding and gilt lines to the bands, three leather lettering labels, boards with 7 gilt fillets, the inner panel a floral roll tool. Inner dentelles. Gilt edging. xxxii, 526, 669, 528 pages with the two supplements bound in with 53 and 71 pages- illustrated with over 538 wood engraved illustrations in the text. In fine condition. Bookplate of J. Leveson Douglas Stewart Glenogil and with a pencil inscription from the known collector H. W. Bruton explaining how he had bought it from Joseph's at Sothebys in 1909 after an auction and how originally it had been sold at Sothebys 5th March 1888 for £16.10 shillings. After its publication it quickly became the standard reference work for a generation of British ornithologists, replacing Thomas Bewick's book of the same name through its increased scientific accuracy.
Seller: Charles Russell, ABA, ILAB, est 1978, cirencester, United Kingdom
Price: US$2563.97 + shipping
Description: pp. xxxii, 525, (i); (ii), 669, (i); (ii), 528; (ii) Title, (ii) Preface, 7-53, (i) blank, (iv) Catalogue; x, 71, (i). [No half-titles appeared to be called for despite pagination]. The main work in 3 volumes bound in contemporary half green morocco and marbled boards by HENRY BEILBY, Birmingham with their ticket, with the book-plates of JOHN CROFT DEVERELL [1840-1921] the Supplements in original green cloth, the First with a blind-decorated border to the boards, the Second with a plain double-ruled border, all in very good condition, ex libris RICHARD FREEMAN with his notes at the front of v.I and the Second Supplement. *FREEMAN BNHB #4177.
Seller: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, United Kingdom