OFFERED AT THE NET PRICES AFFIXED, BY BERNARD QUARITCH, 15 Piccadilly LONDON, March, 1899 he printing and posting of my Rough Lists is a considerable expense to me. therefore appeal to the recipients to favour me occasionally with an order, herwise the sending of these Catalogues must be suspended.-B.Q. ELLIOT'S ORNITHOLOGICAL WORKS. D. G. Elliot's Monograph of the Pittidæ, or FAMILY of ANT-THRUSHES, impl. folio, 51 coloured plates, with an entirely new descriptive letterpress, half green morocco, £15. 158 1893-95 Containing the latest addition to the known species of Pittas: Pitta Inspeculata. Owners of the first edition of Elliot's Pittidæ may secure the entirely re-written text of the second edition, and the twenty new plates for £8. 88. Elliot's Monograph of the Tetraoninæ, or GROUSE FAMILY, 5 parts in 4, forming 1 vol. impl. folio, 27 coloured plates, half green morocco, £10. 10s New York, 1864-65 A necessary work alike for the ornithologist and sportsman, Eyton's copy sold for £23. Elliot's Birds of North America, the new and heretofore unfigured Species of the, 14 parts forming 2 vols. impl. folio, 72 coloured plates, half green morocco, £15. 158 New York, 1866-69 Very few copies were privately printed of this valuable and indispensable companion to the great works of Audubon, Wilson, and Bonaparte. Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidæ, or FAMILY of the PHEASANTS, 2 vols. impl. folio, 84 coloured plates, splendid copy in red morocco super extra, sides and back richly gilt, gilt edges, £52. 108 Excessively scarce. 1870-72 Elliot's Monograph of the Paradiseidæ, or BIRDS of PARADISE, in 7 parts, impl. folio, 37 coloured plates, half green morocco, £11. 118 Eyton's copy sold for £21. 1873 Elliot's Monograph of the Bucerotidæ, or FAMILY of the HORNBILLS, 10 parts, forming 1 vol. impl. 4to. 59 coloured plates, and 2 of Generic Characters, with text (pub. £11. 11s), half morocco, £7. 78 the same, LARGE PAPER, impl. folio, £18. Only 25 copies were printed on Large Paper. 1877-82 1877-82 North American Shore Birds, post 8vo., of 250 pages, with about 70 tinted plates, cloth, 10s 6d New York, 1895 the same, LARGE PAPER, the illustrations on special paper, bd. £2. 2s 1895 This book is not written so much for the experienced ornithologist, who should be familiar with most of its contents, as for those two large classes-the sportsmen and those who love to study birds in their haunts. The first will find in these pages short life histories of the birds they are accustomed to shoot along the coasts or on the prairies, and by the lakes and rivers of our continent, as well as the means by which each species procured can be readily identified; while the second class, as they wander along the beaches, or banks of stream, or even in some instances over the prairies carpeted with flowers, may learn to know and recognize the fairy-like creatures that are introduced to them in this book, as they witness them flitting on light and graceful wing over the landscape. In no sense can anything that has been written be regarded as a scientific treatise; on the contrary, all scientific terms and phraseology have been, as far as possible, carefully avoided, while the descriptions of the birds and the accounts of their habits have been written to the best of the author's ability in language "understanded of the people." A CATALOGUE OF RARE AND VALUABLE BOOKS OFFERED FOR SALE BY BERNARD QUARITCH, 15 PICCADILLY, W. WORKS ON SCIENCE, THE ARTS, AND NATURAL HISTORY Early Science £ s. d. 2 1 BACON. FRANCISCI DE VERULAMIO. . . Instauratio magna [i.e. Novum ORGANUM]... 1620. Small folio, FIRST EDITION, the elaborately engraved title by Simon Pass; a nice copy in old calf, rebacked 1620 the same. 1620.-FRANCISCI BACONI Historia Natvralis et Experimentalis ad Condendam Philosophiam: sive, Phænomena Vniversi: quæ est Instaurationis Magnæ pars tertia. . . 1638.-In 1 vol., small folio, a nice copy from the Duke of Portland's library, old calf, with coronet and initial on sides 1620-38 5 10 0 7 10 0 5 [BARLOWE (W.)]. MAGNETICALL ADUERTISEMENTS: or divers pertinent obseruations, and approued experiments concerning the nature and properties of the Load-stone: Very pleasant for knowledge, and most needfull for practise, of trauelling, or framing of Instruments fit for Trauellers both by Sea and Land . . . 1616. Sm. 4to., woodcuts; a nice copy in boards; excessively rare 1616 A peculiarly interesting volume. At the end is printed a letter of William 6 [BARLOWE] MAGNETICALL ADUERTISEMENTS The second Edition ... 1618. Sm. 4to., calf extra, gilt edges, by Rivière 500 660 1618 6 6 0 Presentation copy from the author. Bound up with "A Breife Discovery of the 7 BLUNDEVIL. Mr. Blundevil his Exercises, contayning Eight Treatises. 15 0 |