Lot 173
![WILLOUGHBY [Francis]](https://media.app.artisio.co/media/104cbde6-0d38-43cb-9e0f-bb721ef57bcf/inventory/c63ddb2a-b61c-4605-bddb-f8073233a116/88234801-fe14-40b3-a947-7e1a580b1d7c/0001_GeOmdF_original.jpg)
WILLOUGHBY [Francis]
The ornithology

Auction: 8 July 2003 at 12:00 BST
£1,410
Description
... in three books : wherein all the birds hitherto known, being reduced into a method sutable to their natures, are accurately described ... 1st edition in English, 3 parts in 1 vol., titlepage in red and black, with 2 letterpress tables and 80 engraved plates, later red morocco, decorative gilt borders, spine decorated gilt in compartments, a.e.g., binding slightly bowed, edges rubbed, table to face p. 273 misbound before 173, a few of the plate leaves with slight paper discolouration, small tear to the lower margin of plate 72 (not affecting engraving), some neat annotations in a contemporary hand, folio, London: John Martyn, 1678
Note: Nissen 991
