London: The Royal Horticultural Society, 1956. First edition, pp.128, navy cloth, gilt, colour frontispiece, further b/w and colour plates, folding map to rear of volume; rubbing to extremities, mark to front board, slight mustiness, an internally clean and good+ copy. No dust-jacket.

London: Oxford University Press, 1940. First edition, 8vo., pp.xv,228, green cloth, gilt, b/w plates, endpaper maps; a very good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which has light wear to extremities (with chipping to head of spine, including 12 x 10 mm loss), good+ and now in a protective cover.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1964. 8vo., pp.152, blue hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece, 8 b/w plates and 16 in-text figures; neat ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, else very good, in good price-clipped dust-jacket, which has closed tears and creasing to head of spine and front upper margin, with sellotape repairs to reverse, and light chipping to extremities.

Richard Bell, 1956. 8vo., pp.150,(i), tan hardcover lettered in black, b/w frontispiece and plates; foxing to edges and endpapers, and lightly to prelims, else a very good copy, in complete and unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is creased and lightly chipped without loss to head of spine, with foxing to the pale paper, now in a protective cover and otherwise very good.

London: Butterworths, 1979. 4to., pp.viii,162, pictorial hardcover, b/w figures; a very good, clean copy. No dust-jacket.

London: Groombridge and Sons, 1878. Third edition, 8vo., pp.xii,147, pictorial brown cloth stamped in gilt and black, a.e.g., colour frontispiece and 6 further colour plates, b/w in-text figures; foxing to prelims, small closed tear to fore-margin of front free endpaper and frontispiece, ink ownership autograph to front free endpaper, typed letter pasted to inner margin of front free endpaper, rubbing and slight wear to extremities, a very good copy.

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1849. Pocket 8vo., pp.(iv),73,(ii)adverts, green cloth with decorative blindstamped borders, gilt-lettered (with decoration) to front board, unlettered spine, a.e.g.; front endpapers partially cracked along hinge (joint is firm), fairly extensive splash-marking to rear board, spine lightly sunned, an otherwise attractive and very good copy.

London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1935. 8vo., pp.92,(iv)adverts, green cloth lettered in black, b/w frontispiece and 8 further b/w illustrations; foxing to titles and edges, just slight rubbing to extremities, else a very good copy indeed.

Eton/London: Ingalton and Drake/Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1868. 8vo., pp.xv,232, uncut, recased with new endpapers, pictorial green cloth, gilt, pictorial spine, 4 hand-coloured mounted photographs, including frontispiece; pasted-in nameplate to front paste-down endpaper, toning to edges, and occasional light foxing, rubbing to extremities, with light loss to head and foot of original spine, a good+ copy.

London: ‘The Feathered World’, 1902. Large 8vo., pp.58,(7)adverts, blue cloth lettered in white to front board, unlettered spine, b/w frontispiece portrait, 2 folding colour plates, 26 b/w illustrations; neat inked inscription, dated 1902, to front free endpaper, toning to free endpapers, light spotting to lower margin of front board, slight rubbing to extremities, overall a very good copy indeed. No dust-jacket.

London: Seeley, Service and Co. Limited, 1921. First edition, 8vo., pp.479, pictorial charcoal cloth stamped in green, b/w frontispiece, b/w plates and figures; (water?)staining to lower margin of front board, light foxing to edges of text-block, light toning to half title, else very good. No dust-jacket.

London: John Van Voorst. First edition, 8vo., pp.vii,206,(i), uncut, modern green cloth binding with new endpapers; some leaves roughly cut, with paper tape repair to upper margin of p.121, occasional archival tape repairs to fore-margins, slight evidence of erased pencil underlining to pp.90-1 and 169, light foxing to prelims, else clean and very good.

London: Chapman and Hall. 8vo., pp.xiii,417, blue faux-leather, gilt, colour frontispiece, 1 further colour plate and 3 b/w plates, numerous b/w in-text illustrations; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, light toning to margins throughout, a very good copy, in vg price-clipped dust-jacket with light partial sunning and small pull to laminate coating at rear lower margin. Now in protective cover.

British Ornithologists’ Union, c/o The Natural History Museum, Tring. 8vo., pp.295,(i), pictorial hardcover, 50 colour illustrations; ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, slight bruising to upper edge, else clean and very good indeed. No dust-jacket.

London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge. 8vo., pp.xii,276, full green bevelled morocco, gilt, four raised bands, decorative gilt borders to boards, gilt decoration to compartments, a.e.g., b/w figures; rubbing/slight wear to extremities, else very good.

New York: Orange Judd Publishing Company, Inc. 8vo., pp.415, cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece, numerous b/w illustrations; light toning to margins of text, (very) light foxing to endpapers, slight marking to cloth, creasing to spine, overall very good. (No dust-jacket).

Cambridge, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, 1984. 4to.,pp.144, unbound between clear acetate covers, b/w figures and maps, pictorial title page; a very good copy.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Six volumes, of which volume I is a reprint, the others first editions, 4to., pp.xv,430;x,318;xv,474,xvii,602;xix,646;xv,739, printed paper-covered boards, maps and illustrations; uniform slight sunning to spines, a little light rubbing to extremities, knock to fore-edge of rear board Vol.VI, lower corners of VI a little bumped and rubbed, o/w fine, a very good set indeed.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, W.L.Large & Sons. 8vo.,pp.296, printed wrappers, b/w fold-out map to rear; lightly rubbed to extremities, with some discolouration to extremities, lightly worn at head and foot of spine, small stain to front of wrappers near hinge, a very good copy.