A Monograph of the Odontophorinae, or Partridges of America

by John Gould

$16,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

First edition

Contemporary green morocco gilt by Clyde, covers with wide decorative border tooled in gilt and blind with fillets and decorative rolls, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and third, the others with repeat decoration in gilt made up from various small tools, stylized foliage tools and a large central rococo tool, gilt turn-ins, cream/yellow glazed endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy of the first edition of Gould's fourth monograph, in which he

• Binding: Leather

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