Lot 197
Ornithology, including Willughby, Francis
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 10 September 2014 at 12:00 BST
Description
The ornithology... Newport Pagnell: Paul P.B. Minet, 1972. Folio, facsimile of the 1678 edition, one of 400 copies, panelled calf gilt in slipcase; Morris, F.O. British birds. London: Groombridge and Sons, [n.d., 1880?] 8 volumes, 8vo, hand-coloured plates, original cloth gilt; Harting, J.E. A handbook of British birds, 1901. 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket; Clarke, William Eagle Studies in bird migration, 1912. 2 volumes, 8vo, green cloth gilt, dust-jackets; Knox, A.E. Game birds and wild fowl..., 1850. 8vo, green cloth gilt; Booth, E.T. Catalogue of the cases of birds in the Dyke Road Museum, Brighton. Brighton, 1901. Third edition, 8vo, green cloth gilt; Hancock, John A catalogue of the birds of Northumberland and Durham, in Natural History Transactions of Northumberland and Durham, vol. vi, 1874. 8vo, modern red cloth gilt; Ticehurst, Claud B. A history of the birds of Suffolk, 1932. 8vo, green cloth gilt; Sauer, Gordon C. John Gould the bird man, 1982. 4to, green cloth gilt, dust-jacket; and 2 others, sold not subject to return (19)