Lot Essay
Provenance: LORD LILFORD (gilt coronet at foot of spine).
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BUREAU, Louis. Recherches sur la Mue du Bec des Oiseaux de la
Famille Mormonidés [Puffins], Paris, F. Savy, 1879, 8°, 2
lithographed plates, one a hand-coloured, folding, transformation
plate, upper wrapper bound in -- OGILVIE-GRANT, William Robert. A
Short Review of the Francolins Belonging to the Genera Francolinus and Pternistes, [London, The Ibis, 1892], 8°, inscribed by the author on upper wrapper, one hand-coloured lithographed plate by J.G. Keulemans, upper wrapper bound in [not in Mullens & Swann] -- GURNEY, John Henry. A Revision of the Recorded Occurences of the Great White Heron in Great Britain, [n.p., Norfolk and Norwich Naturalist's Society, 1891], 8°, original wrappers bound in [Mullens & Swann p. 262] -- SMITH, A.C. Recent Occurence of the Great Bustard in Wilts, [Devizes, H.F. Bull, 1891], 8°, inscibed by the author on upper wrapper, upper wrapper bound in [not in Mullens & Swann]; and 21 other ornithological pamphlets, most inscribed by the authors to Lord Lilford, bound in one vol. contemporary green half morocco (rubbed), t.e.g.
Famille Mormonidés [Puffins], Paris, F. Savy, 1879, 8°, 2
lithographed plates, one a hand-coloured, folding, transformation
plate, upper wrapper bound in -- OGILVIE-GRANT, William Robert. A
Short Review of the Francolins Belonging to the Genera Francolinus and Pternistes, [London, The Ibis, 1892], 8°, inscribed by the author on upper wrapper, one hand-coloured lithographed plate by J.G. Keulemans, upper wrapper bound in [not in Mullens & Swann] -- GURNEY, John Henry. A Revision of the Recorded Occurences of the Great White Heron in Great Britain, [n.p., Norfolk and Norwich Naturalist's Society, 1891], 8°, original wrappers bound in [Mullens & Swann p. 262] -- SMITH, A.C. Recent Occurence of the Great Bustard in Wilts, [Devizes, H.F. Bull, 1891], 8°, inscibed by the author on upper wrapper, upper wrapper bound in [not in Mullens & Swann]; and 21 other ornithological pamphlets, most inscribed by the authors to Lord Lilford, bound in one vol. contemporary green half morocco (rubbed), t.e.g.