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The Life of a Boy.
London: Oliver and Boyd, 1947. [Military biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.181; [1], blank. Illustrated with photographic plates. Bound in publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt. Neat ink ownership, mild spotting. Very good, without jacket. Memorial account of Guards officer Daniel Meinertzhagen, killed on reconnaissance at the German-Dutch..... More
Birds of Arabia.
London: Oliver and Boyd, 1954. [Ornithology] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 21cm), pp.624. With nineteen colour plates, nine photographic plates, fifty-three illustrations within the text, thirty-five text maps, and a folding map of the Arabian Peninsula (48 x 50 cms) within a pocket at the rear. Bound in publisher's brown..... More
Pirates and Predators. The Piratical and Predatory Habits of Birds.
London: Oliver and Boyd, 1959. [Ornithology] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 21cm), pp.x; 230. Illustrated with eighteen colour plates and twenty monochrome plates. Bound in publisher's red cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper priced 70/-. This copy with some related news clippings tucked in, plus the colour prospectus for the Sotheran edition..... More
Pirates and Predators. The Piratical and Predatory Habits of Birds.
London: Oliver and Boyd, 1959. [Ornithology] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 21cm), pp.x; 230. Illustrated with eighteen colour plates and twenty monochrome plates. Bound in publisher's red cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper priced 70/-. Contents clean, no inscriptions, jacket gently worn to extremities. Near fine. Colonel Richard Henry Meinertzhagen, CBE, DSO..... More




