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EDWARDS, Alphonse Milne & Jean Frederick Emile OUSTALET. Etudes sur les Mammifères et les Oiseux des Iles Comores, [Paris: Becquet], c. 1880. 4° (304 x 237mm). 6 hand-coloured lithographed plates of birds only. Contemporary cloth-backed boards (edges rubbed). Provenance: Finn Salomonsen (ex-libris sticker). Part of "Nouvelles Archives du Museum, 2e Série."
With various other part-works of related interest and disbound natural history plates including Thomas Horsfield's Zoological Researches in Java (London, 1824, 9 hand-coloured plates only) and F. W. Beechey's The Zoology of Captain Beechey's Voyage ... during a Voyage to the Pacific and Behring's Straits (London, 1839, 10 hand-coloured plates only). The lot sold as a Collection of Plates, not subject to return.
With various other part-works of related interest and disbound natural history plates including Thomas Horsfield's Zoological Researches in Java (London, 1824, 9 hand-coloured plates only) and F. W. Beechey's The Zoology of Captain Beechey's Voyage ... during a Voyage to the Pacific and Behring's Straits (London, 1839, 10 hand-coloured plates only). The lot sold as a Collection of Plates, not subject to return.
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