Nicoll’s birds of Egypt

by Richard Meinertzhagen

$1,250 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

London: Hugh Rees Ltd, 1930. Two volumes. 4to. xvi, 348; 700 pp. FIRST EDITION. Complete with author’s portrait on frontispiece, 3 folding maps, 38 plates 31 colored after G.E. Lodge, Roland Green and H. Gronvold, text illustrations throughout. Original green cloth, gilt lettering, some rubbing to corners and edges of spine; despite minor browning to preliminary and blank leaves, a very nice wide-margined copy, uncut,

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