Lot 593

BEEBE William

Auction: 21 July 2004 at 11:30 BST
£3,525
Description
A monograph of the pheasants … 1st edition, 4 volumes, 90 chromolithographed plates, 88 photogravure plates by Thorburn, Gronwold, Lodge etc., 20 maps, plate 15 bound at the end of vol. 4, original cloth, t.e.g., small tear in the spine of vol. 1, lower cover of vol. 2 water stained, folio, London: Witherby, 1918-22 [4]
Note: Nissen IVB 267. No 35 of 600 copies One of the last books to use the process of chromolithography.
