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SELBY, Prideaux John (1788-1867). Illustrations of British Ornithology. (text) Edinburgh: 1833, (plates) London: Henry G. Bohn, 1841.
4 volumes: 2 vols. text, 8° (212 x 135mm.); 2 vols. plates, 2° (668 x 535mm). 2 engraved titles with hand-coloured vignettes, 4 uncoloured plates of details and 218 hand-coloured etched plates. (Vol.I: title and plates LV and uncoloured plate IV slightly creased; vol.II: title slightly creased, captions shaved with loss on plates LXXVI and LXXXVII*, outer margin of plate X just shaved into image area, small repaired tear to upper outer margin of plate CI.) Contemporary green half morocco gilt, g.e.(rubbed). Provenance: G.G.Lumley (armorial bookplate).
THE TALLEST BRISTISH BIRD BOOK. A fine copy of Bohn's reprint, published eight years after the completion of the first edition. Nissen IVB 853; Fine Bird Books p.107. (4)
4 volumes: 2 vols. text, 8° (212 x 135mm.); 2 vols. plates, 2° (668 x 535mm). 2 engraved titles with hand-coloured vignettes, 4 uncoloured plates of details and 218 hand-coloured etched plates. (Vol.I: title and plates LV and uncoloured plate IV slightly creased; vol.II: title slightly creased, captions shaved with loss on plates LXXVI and LXXXVII*, outer margin of plate X just shaved into image area, small repaired tear to upper outer margin of plate CI.) Contemporary green half morocco gilt, g.e.(rubbed). Provenance: G.G.Lumley (armorial bookplate).
THE TALLEST BRISTISH BIRD BOOK. A fine copy of Bohn's reprint, published eight years after the completion of the first edition. Nissen IVB 853; Fine Bird Books p.107. (4)