PHILLIPS, JOHN C. A Natural History of the Ducks. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin 1922-26. 4 vols., 4to, original canvas-backed boards, uncut, brocade-lined cloth folding boxes by Evangeline M. Levis, 1971 (slightly soiled), one or two tiny marginal tears to text leaves. 102 halftone and photolithographic plates, of which 74 in color, reproducing watercolors and drawings by L.A. Fuertes, A. Brooks, F.W. Benson, H. Grönvold and S. Kobayashi, 118 distribution maps. Nissen/IVB 728; Wood, p. 518. (4)

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PHILLIPS, JOHN C. A Natural History of the Ducks. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin 1922-26. 4 vols., 4to, original canvas-backed boards, uncut, brocade-lined cloth folding boxes by Evangeline M. Levis, 1971 (slightly soiled), one or two tiny marginal tears to text leaves. 102 halftone and photolithographic plates, of which 74 in color, reproducing watercolors and drawings by L.A. Fuertes, A. Brooks, F.W. Benson, H. Grönvold and S. Kobayashi, 118 distribution maps. Nissen/IVB 728; Wood, p. 518. (4)