Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers: Ornithology, Taxidermy, and Natural History, 92024, Norwich

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
September 20, 2024 - September 20, 2024
Page Size: 51 items in 3 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
130 Francis Donkin Bedford (1864-1954)

'Bird-Stuffer'

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 22.75
131 Barry Driscoll (British 1926-2006)

'Peregrine Falcon'

GBP 35.00 - 55.00 GBP 22.75
132 Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935)

Set of four limited edition prints: 'Winter Ptarmigan' 'A pair of Black Grouse' 'A English Pheasant and Grouse' and 'A Woodcock'

GBP 50.00 - 70.00 GBP 15.17
133 Archibald Throburn (1860-1935)

Set of four limited edition prints: 'Capercaillie', 'Partridges', 'Snipe'

GBP 50.00 - 70.00 GBP 7.58
134

Wildfowl Trust Reports: an unbroken run of 38 copies commencing with 'Severn Wildlife Trust Second Annual Report 1948-1949' and ending with 'The Wildfowl Trust

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 15.17
135 Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe:

'Shorelands Summer Diary' 'Mereside Chronicle' 'Our Bird Book'

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
136 Peter Scott: 'Morning Flight'

1937 third impression 'Wild Chorus' 1946

GBP 60.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
137 John Cyril Harrison (1898-1985)

study of a Golden Eagle

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 10.11
138 Rev. Francis Orpen Morris (British,19th century)

'Sheildrake'

GBP 35.00 - 55.00 Not Sold
139 Rev. Francis Orpen Morris (British

'Brown Snipe'

GBP 35.00 - 55.00 Not Sold
140

Rowland Ward Ephemera,1895 Empire of India Exhibition illustrated guide to 'The Jungle' with description of Indian Animal Life

GBP 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
141

Van Ingen Taxidermy Ephemera interest - "The preservation of Shikar trophies"

1933 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
142 Christopher Frost

Victorian Taxidermy - It's History and finest Exponents'

1981 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 10.11
143

Quantity of 15 Ornithological books and guides to norfolk and East Anglian birds

Not Available Not Sold
144

Quantity of 9 Ornithological books on birds of Sri Lanka and Australia

Not Available Not Sold
145

Quantity of 8 Ornithological African Bird books and guides

Not Available Not Sold
146

Quantity of 6 North African and Middle Eastern Ornithological bird books

Not Available GBP 50.56
147

Quantity of 7 Ornithological books on Birds of South America, Panama and the West Indies

Not Available GBP 75.84
148

Natural History Book interest: quantity of 14 books on Flora, Plants and Flowers

Not Available GBP 82.16
149

Quantity of 15 books about Butterflies, moths and dragonflies

Not Available Not Sold
150

Quantity of 17 Ornithological books about the birds of Europe, North Africa and the Western Palaeartic

Not Available Not Sold
151

Quantity of 15 books on birds and nature novels

Not Available GBP 12.64
152

Quantity of ornithological books on Canadian and American Birds

Not Available GBP 45.50
153 David Attenborough

Three Signed David Attenborough books to include: 'The Trials of Life - A natural History of Animal Behaviour, 'Living Planet - The Web of Life on Earth' and 'The Life of Birds'

2022, 2021, 2023 GBP 90.00 - 110.00 Not Sold
154

Ornithological book interest: Quantity of eight Ornithological bird atlas' to include 'The Atlas of wintering birds in Britain and Ireland' - Peter Lack 1986

GBP 20.00 - 35.00 GBP 37.92
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