Lot 344
ORNITHOLOGY, 12 VOLUMES, COMPRISING
SCOTT, PETER
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 31 January 2019 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Wild Chorus. London, 1938. First edition, 4to, number 1152 of 1250 copies signed by the author, plates, original blue pictorial buckram gilt, t.e.g.; Millais, J.G. The Wildfowler in Scotland. 1901. 4to, plates, original half vellum, binding slightly soiled; Chapman, Abel Memories, 1930; Retrospect, 1928; Bird Life of the Borders, 1907; The Borders and Beyond, 1924, uniform green half morocco, emblematically tooled on spines, t.e.g., spines slightly faded; Muirhead, George The Birds of Berwickshire. Edinburgh, 1889. 2 volumes, 8vo, presentation copy from the author to Sir Archibald H. Dunbar, Bart. of Northfield, from the author, folding map, illustrations, original white cloth, t.e.g., spines slightly discoloured, bindings lightly marked; Kirkman, F.B. The British Bird Book. 1911. 4 volumes, 4to, plates, original buff buckram, green morocco labels, bindings slightly soiled (12)