Lot 637
DRESSER H.E.
Auction: 21 July 2004 at 11:30 BST
£12,925
Description
A history of the birds of Europe, including the Western Palaeartic region … [with] Supplement … 1st edition, 9 volumes, 721 hand finished lithographic plates, 2 black and white plates, full blue morocco, covers with gilt borders, upper covers with the arms in gilt of Edward 4th Baron Sherborne, spines decorated gilt in compartments, inner gilt doublures, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., with the Sherborne Library bookplate, 4to., London: by the author, 1871-81 [9]
Note: Nissen IVB 267
Footnote
Provenance: Purchased Henry Sotheran Ltd, 43 Piccadilly, London, December 1929