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SEEBOHM, Henry. Coloured Figures of the Eggs of British Birds, Sheffield: Pawson and Brailsford, 1896. 8°, half tone portrait frontispiece, 60 chromolithographed plates (occasional light spotting), original cloth gilt (joints and edges lightly rubbed), ownership inscription on front pastedown. FIRST EDITION. Nissen IVB 849.
MICHELET, Jules. The Bird, London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1869. 8°, engraved half title, illustrations (one or two light spots), original cloth gilt (lightly rubbed, joints splitting, head and tail of spine bumped), g.e. FIRST EDITION.
With Francis Orpen Morris's Nests & Eggs of British Birds (London, 1875, 3 vols., defective).
Lot sold not subject to return.
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MICHELET, Jules. The Bird, London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1869. 8°, engraved half title, illustrations (one or two light spots), original cloth gilt (lightly rubbed, joints splitting, head and tail of spine bumped), g.e. FIRST EDITION.
With Francis Orpen Morris's Nests & Eggs of British Birds (London, 1875, 3 vols., defective).
Lot sold not subject to return.
(5)
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