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ANTIQUE PRINTS of BIRDS

Fine Gravures by Lilian Marguerite Medland. She produced 318 monochrome plates to illustrate Charles Stonham's five volumes of
The Birds of the British Islands
1906-11.The prints are in excellent condition, and have been accurately coloured in watercolour.
They measure 9 3/4 "x 12 1/2" Landscape
& 12 1/2"x 9 3/4" Portrait.  

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Birds of Prey

Snowy Owl

Code BBI 001

Price £35

Short Eared Owl

Code BBI 002

Price £35

Barn Owl

Code BBI 003

Price £35
 

Tawny Owl

Code BBI 004

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Long Eared Owl

Code BBI 005

Price £35

Little Owl

Code BBI 006

Price £35

 

Osprey

Code BBI 007

Price £35

Kestral

Code BBI 008

Price £35

Peregrine Falcon

Code BBI 009

Price £35

 

Kite

Code BBI 010

Price £35

Sparrowhawk

Code BBI 011

Price £35

Hobby

Code BBI 012

Price £35


Woodland and Field Birds

Green Woodpecker


Code BBI 013

Price £30

Lesser Spotted Woodpecker

Code BBI 014

Price £25

Great Spotted Woodpecker

Code BBI 014

Price £30

 
   

Hoopoe

Code BBI 019

Price £25

 

 


Garden Birds

Coal Titmouse, (Coal Tit)

Code BBI 016

Price £18

Great Titmouse, (Great Tit)

Code BBI 017

Price £18

British Long-Tailed Titmouse,
(Long-Tailed Tit)

Code BBI 017

Price £18

 

Blackbird

Code BBI 022

Price £25

Goldfinch

Code BBI 024

Price £25

House Sparrow

Code BBI 023

Price £25


Sea Birds

The Black Headed Gull

Code BBI SB01

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The Kittiwake

Code BBI SB02

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The Common Tern

Code BBI SB02

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The Great Black Backed Gull

Code BBI SB04
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Water Birds

Great Crested Grebe

Code BBI 020

Price £25

Horned Grebe

Code BBI 021

Price £25


Buffon Historie Naturelle. Date 1766.
George Louis Leclerc Buffon. A student of the Academy of Science, Buffon influenced the separation of science from theology, even before Darwin's theory of evolution. He suggested that man and ape may be connected through a scientific, common ancestry. In addition, Buffon challenged existing religious dogmas and acknowledged that new theories were needed, believing that the Earth was more than 6,000 years old. George Buffon Historie Naturelle 1766.
Original copperplate engravings on racked paper.
The Owl prints are harder to find in and amongst the many bird prints produced by Buffon.
Condition is excellent, and has been coloured in watercolour.
Size of image 7 1/2" x 5 3/4". Paper size 9 3/4"x 7 1/4"

Le Grand Duc
Mature Horned Owl
Plate XXII

Code BBB O01
Price £45
Le Hibou ou Moyen Duc
Long Eared Owl
Plate XXIII

Code BBB O02
Price £45
La Cheveche ou
Petite Chouette.
Little Owl
Plate XXVIII
Code BBB O03
Price £45
 

La Chouette.
Short Eared Owl
Plate XXVII
Code BBBO04
Price £45

Le Chat-Haunt.
Tawny Owl
Plate XXV
Code BBB O05
Price £45
L'Effraie.
Barn Owl.
Plate XXVI
Code BBB O06
Price £45
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More information.

Lilian Marguerite Medland 1880-1955
trained and worked for many years as a nurse in England. met Charles Stonham, a senior surgeon at Guy's Hospital where she did her training.

He published The Birds of the British Isles between 1906 and 1911, with her as illustrator. She later married Tom Iredale and did the illustrations for a number of his books..

Charles Stonham 1858-1916
Well respected and successful surgeon at Guys and Westminster Hospitals. who's career was in medicine, but his passion was ornithology.