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The fourth and fifth editions respectively of Beverly R. Morris's History of British Birds and British Game Birds, 1895-1897, with hand-coloured plates.
The fourth and fifth editions respectively of Beverly R. Morris's History of British Birds and British Game Birds, 1895-1897, with hand-coloured plates.
The fourth and fifth editions respectively of Beverly R. Morris's History of British Birds and British Game Birds, 1895-1897, with hand-coloured plates.
The fourth and fifth editions respectively of Beverly R. Morris's History of British Birds and British Game Birds, 1895-1897, with hand-coloured plates.

MORRIS, Beverly R.

A History of British Birds [with] British Game Birds and Wildfowl. Revised, corrected, and enlarged. With three hundred and ninety-four plates coloured by hand. [British Game Birds] revised and corrected by W.B. Tegetmeier. With sixty large plates coloured by hand.

London, John C. Nimmo, 1895-1897.

$924.00
$924.00

A History of British Birds [with] British Game Birds and Wildfowl.

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An attractive set of these two ornithological classics, the fourth and fifth edition, respectively, in the decorative publisher's bindings and with hand-coloured plates.

Fourth edition of British Birds, fifth edition of Game Birds; 8 vols, 4to; hand-coloured frontispiece and 454 plates, contemporary bookplate of Thomas Aitken and pencilled gift inscriptions dated 1926, occasional light spotting to contents and more heavily to edges of the text blocks; original brown cloth blocked in gilt with birds designs to the upper boards, brown coated endpapers, spines rolled, some wear at the extremities, primarily the spine ends, a very good set.

Stock code 115270

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The fourth and fifth editions respectively of Beverly R. Morris's History of British Birds and British Game Birds, 1895-1897, with hand-coloured plates.

A History of British Birds [with] British Game Birds and Wildfowl.

$924.00
$924.00

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