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Water Birds
Subject (Click on the Subject to view the print.)	Plate	Price $
PURPLE HERON	3	1,500
LITTLE EGRET HERON	5	Sold
LITTLE BITTERN	6	500
SQUATED HERON	6	1,000
NIGHT HERON	7	1,000
WHITE SPOONBILL	10	1,500
GLOSSY IBIS (YOUNG)	12	1,000
CURLEW	13	1,000
WHIMBREL	14	500
DUSKY SANDPIPER	15	500
COMMON REDSHANK	16	300
SPOTTED SANDPIPER	17	300
SCOOPING AVOCET	20	500
WOODCOCK AND SNIPE	23	Sold
SABINES SNIPE & BROWN SNIPE	24	300
RUFF	25	300
PIGMY CURLEWS	26	300
TRINGA	27	300
SANDPIPERS	27	300
GREY PHALAROPE	28	300
RED LOBEFOOT	28	300
RAIL	29	500
COMMON CRAKE	30	500
CRAKES	30	500
COMMON GALINULE	31	500
COMMON COOT	32	750
COMMON OYSTER CATCHER	33	1,000
COMMON TURNSTONE	33	300
CREAM-COLORED SWIFTFOOT	33	300
GREEN LAPWING	34	500
GREY LAPWING	35	300
GOLDEN PLOVER	37	500
PLOVERS	38	300
BLACK-WINGED STILT	39	500
COMMON DOTREL	39	500
COMMON THICK KNEE	40	300
COMMON WILD GOOSE	41	500
BEAN GOOSE	42	1,000
WHITE FRONTED WILD GOOSE	43	1,000
BRENT BERNICLE	45	1,000
COMMON BARNICLE	45	1,000
COMMON PINTAIL	49	500
FEMALE GADWALL AND PINTAIL DUCKS	49	1,000
WIDGEON DUCKS	52	1,500
TEAL DUCKS	54	1,000
GOOSANDER FEMALE	57	1,000
SMEW	59	500
SCAUP POCHARD	66	500
VELVET SCOTER DUCK	67	1,000
BLACK SCOTER DUCK	68	1,000
SPECTACLE SCOTER DUCK	69	500
EIDER (FEMALE)	70	500
RED NECKED GREBE	72	1,000
HORNED GREBE	74	1,000
BLACK THROATED DIVER	77	500
GREENSHANK		500
FULMAR PETREL	102	1,000
Black and White Prints These black and white prints come from a later edition, which was bound uncolored to allow the purchasers a more reasonably priced illustrated book.
Subject	Plate	Price $
CIRNEROUS EAGLE YOUNG	3	200
RAVEN	27	350
ROOK	30	250
JACKDAW MAGPIE	31	250
WOODPECKER	38	250
GREAT WOODPECKER	38	350
KINGFISHER & HOOPOE	40	250
BEE EATERS	41	250
GOATSUCKER OR NIGHT HAWK	42	250
SKY AND WOOD LARKS	50	250
FEMALE BUSTARD AND CHICK	64	350
ASSORTED BIRD HEADS & FEET		200


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	Prideaux John Selby Illustrations of British Ornithology
As the first attempt to produce a set of life-sized illustrations of British birds, Selby's Illustrations of of British Ornithology (1821-1834) is the English equivalent of Audubon's famous works. Selby, an avid field naturalist, sportsman and student of ornithology, was not satisfied with the engravings of his drawings done by others, so he engraved most of the plates himself. "The cool, classical quality of Selby's plates belongs to an age of elegance and could never have been achieved by the Victorian John Gould. Selby's bird figures were the most accurate delineation of British birds to that date, and the liveliest. After so many books with small, stiff bird portraits, this new atlas with life-sized figures and more relaxed drawing was a great achievement in the long history of bird illustration." (Jackson) We are offering plates from the second edition (1841-1846) published in London by Henry Bohn on J. Whatman paper. These plates, in pristine condition, are crisply engraved and richly colored. They measure approximately 27" x 21.5"