Lot 287
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BEEBE, CHARLES WILLIAM. A Monograph of the Pheasants. London: Witherby 1918-22. 4 vols., folio, original maroon cloth, gilt-lettered, t.e.g., effaced library shelf marks on spines, joints and extremities somewhat rubbed, library blind stamps on one leaf of each vol., text paper slightly darkened, occasional light offsetting, some marginal finger soiling, the photogravure plates in vol. 2 and a few in vol. 4 slightly browned from inserted acidic guards, a very few small insignificant marginal tears. LIMITED EDITION, no. 8 of 600 copies, 90 chromolithograph and color collotype plates by Thorburn, Lodge, Grönvold, Jones, Knight, Fuertes and Megargee, 87 photogravure plates, and 20 distribition maps. Ellis 203 ("Perhaps the greatest ornithological monograph of the present century..."); Nissen/IVB 84; Wood, p. 228; Zimmer, pp. 49-50. (4)

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BEEBE, CHARLES WILLIAM. A Monograph of the Pheasants. London: Witherby 1918-22. 4 vols., folio, original maroon cloth, gilt-lettered, t.e.g., effaced library shelf marks on spines, joints and extremities somewhat rubbed, library blind stamps on one leaf of each vol., text paper slightly darkened, occasional light offsetting, some marginal finger soiling, the photogravure plates in vol. 2 and a few in vol. 4 slightly browned from inserted acidic guards, a very few small insignificant marginal tears. LIMITED EDITION, no. 8 of 600 copies, 90 chromolithograph and color collotype plates by Thorburn, Lodge, Grönvold, Jones, Knight, Fuertes and Megargee, 87 photogravure plates, and 20 distribition maps. Ellis 203 ("Perhaps the greatest ornithological monograph of the present century..."); Nissen/IVB 84; Wood, p. 228; Zimmer, pp. 49-50. (4)