Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 16:26:31 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Fran Saunders Subject: FW: More Bird Books for sale from Ky. Ornithological Society MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit See below.... Fran Saunders MOS State Web Site Director http://www.MDBirds.org Silver Spring, MD -----Original Message----- From: Kathy Caminiti [mailto:krzy4owls@fuse.net] Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 2:35 PM To: Undisclosed-Recipient:@harbor.safeport.com; Subject: More Bird Books for sale from Ky. Ornithological Society Hello All ! As editors/chairs of other State Ornithological Societies, Audubon Societies, and Bird Clubs, I would like to ask if you could please post the below information to your society's listserv or newsletter. Should you have any members that are book collectors, they may very well be interested in the below. Also, if you have any information that you feel would be of interest to the Kentucky Ornithological Society's membership, please do not hesitate to forward it to me. Thank you and Good Birding! Kathy Caminiti President Kentucky Ornithological Society -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- We have an Updated Listing of "Books For Sale" from the Ky. Ornithological Society (KOS). The updated bird book listing can be viewed on-line at http://www.biology.eku.edu/KOS/kosbooks.pdf Be sure to checkout the additional books we've added including: >Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Kentucky, 2nd Edition By Brainard Palmer-Ball, Jr. Copyright 2003. NEW ! Just received from the printer this week! Item #196 Paperback. 189 Pages plus photo pages. This is an update to the KOS publication, an "Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Kentucky" (1988) by Burt Monroe, Jr., Anne Stamm, and Brainard Palmer-Ball, Jr. Summarizes the status of 363 species of birds in Kentucky. See pictures of the front and back color covers on the listing! >Item # 195 Life Histories of North American Diving Birds Bulletin 107, 1919. Order: Pygopodes, Signed by author, Arthur Cleveland Bent >> Inside on hard title page is inscription in black pen of "Dr. John B. May from A.C. Bent" and has a small stamp at the top right corner of "Dr. John B. May, Cohasset, Mass." Green Hardback Version-United States National Museum of Life Histories. Hardback Book and Pages in VGC. Picture is on the listing. >and More Volumes of the United States National Museum of Life Histories by Arthur Cleveland Bent-Green Hardback Versions >Item #192 Observations of the Natural History of Swallows: With a Collateral Statement of Facts Relative to Their Migration, & to Their Brumal Torpidity: & a Table of Reference to Authors. Illustrated with Figures of Five Species, engraved on wood, by Willis. To which is added, A General Catalogue of British Birds, With the Provincial Names for each by Thomas Forster, F.L.S., Corresp. Memb. Acad. Nat. Sciences at Philadephia, &c., &c, &c. Printed in 1817, London, Publisher: T. and G. Underwood, Sixth Edition, enlarged.(See scans of this book on the listing) Contains all 5 wood engravings. Signed in pencil on inside front page "Thomas Andrews Paisley 24/4/66". Some of the pages are a little frayed on the edges and miscolored, the binding is shot with only remnants of a spine. One part of the cover, somewhat intact, is detached (not sure if this is the front or back cover?) with the rest of the cover missing. All five black-and-white engravings appear to be intact, although the pages are spotted with some discoloring. This listing has detailed information about each book and most of the books are pictured. The terms of this sale are thoroughly detailed on the first page of the website. Thank you again for your Support! Kathy Caminiti Kentucky Ornithological Society ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================