British birds

by Archibald Thorburn

$850 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1916-1918. Four volumes. 4to. 142, 2 ; 71, 1 ; 86, 1 ; 106, 1 pp., including half-titles, index and errata. Mixed edition. Titles in red and black, 82 colored plates after Thorburn. Contemporary red cloth, gilt lettering, top edge gilt; despite some fading on the binding, plates are very clean. A nice and crisp copy from the Library of James Dolan Jr., curator of the San Diego Zoological

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