Name: Auction: Hayes, William A Natural History of British Birds, etc. with their Portraits
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 1071 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Sale number: 773&nbsp;February 2024's auction features a fine range of modern literature (lots 275-298) including first editions of <a href="/auctions/rare-books-manuscripts-maps-and-photographs-773/lot/297" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">J.R.R. Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings</a>' and <a href="/auctions/rare-books-manuscripts-maps-and-photographs-773/lot/279" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">George Orwell’s 'Animal Farm</a>', important manuscripts (lots 179-195), atlases &amp; maps (lots 112-151), photographs (lots 196-208) and The Collection of the Stevenson Lighthouse Engineers (lots 61-111), including <a href="/auctions/rare-books-manuscripts-maps-and-photographs-773/lot/85" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sebastian Münster's 'Cosmographiae Universalis Lib. VI'</a>, and much more. The sale also features The Library of Dr Andrew Fraser MD FSA Scot (1937 - 2020) (lots 152 - 178).

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Ian Fleming | British 1908 - 1964

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accurately drawn, and beautifully coloured from Nature. London: for S. Hooper, 1775. First edition, folio (52 x 36.4cm), contemporary calf-backed marbled boards with vellum tips, [2] 24 pp., 40 engraved plates (2 folding), contemporary manuscript list of contents laid in, spine worn, front joint largely cracked, title-page creased and marked and with loss to lower fore corner (not affecting text), variable spotting to plates, most with contemporary manuscript titles (in ink or pencil), folding plates creased, bittern folding plate rumpled along fore edge, brent goose with browning and paper disruption along one fold [Anker 198; Fine Bird Books (1990) p. 105; Nissen IVB 421; Zimmer I pp. 293-4]

A Natural History of British Birds, etc. with their Portraits

Hayes, William

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Hayes, William

A Natural History of British Birds, etc. with their Portraits

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