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'These are very handsome folio plates whose composition is similar to those in Dresser's book' (Jackson).
'These are very handsome folio plates whose composition is similar to those in Dresser's book' (Jackson).
'These are very handsome folio plates whose composition is similar to those in Dresser's book' (Jackson).
'These are very handsome folio plates whose composition is similar to those in Dresser's book' (Jackson).
'These are very handsome folio plates whose composition is similar to those in Dresser's book' (Jackson).
'These are very handsome folio plates whose composition is similar to those in Dresser's book' (Jackson).

BOOTH, Edward Thomas.

Rough notes on the birds observed during twenty-five years' shooting and collecting in the British Islands.

London, R.H. Porter, 1881-1887.

£7,000.00
£7,000.00

Rough notes on the birds observed during twenty-five years' shooting and collecting in the British Islands.

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Edward Booth was a wealthy bird-watcher and sportsman who stuffed his own specimens and mounted them in their natural surroundings in glass cases. It was these specimens, now in the Brighton Museum, which Neale used for his drawings. 'These are very handsome folio plates whose composition is similar to those in Dresser's book' (Jackson).

First edition; 3 vols, large 4to (42.4 x 32.5 cm); 114 hand-coloured lithographed plates after Edward Neale, some spotting; slightly later maroon half morocco.

Anker 51; Fine Bird Books, p61; Mullens & Swann 84; Nissen IVB 121; Zimmer, pp79-80; Wood, p349.

Stock code 107390

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'These are very handsome folio plates whose composition is similar to those in Dresser's book' (Jackson).

Rough notes on the birds observed during twenty-five years' shooting and collecting in the British Islands.

£7,000.00
£7,000.00

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First edition of this ornithological classic, Walter Lowry Buller's History of the Birds of New Zealand, with 36 chromolithographic plates, published in parts in London between 1872 and 1873.

BULLER, Walter Lawry.
A History of the Birds of New Zealand. [1872-]1873.
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Second and preferred edition of the definitive work on New Zealand birds, Walter Lowry Buller's History fo teh Birds of New Zealand, in the publisher's deluxe red morocco.

BULLER, Walter Lawry.
A History of the Birds of New Zealand. 1888.
£3,500.00

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A History of British Birds.

YARRELL, William.
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MEINERTZHAGEN, Colonel R.
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LENDON, Alan.
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