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PHILLIPS, JOHN C. A Natural History of the Ducks, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin 1922-26, 4 vols., original canvas-backed boards, paper title labels, uncut, 3 of 4 original slipcases (broken), spines darkened, 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. [With:] Bibliography of A Natural History of the Ducks, Cambridge 1926, original cloth, uncut, corners bumped, offprint of pp. 321-447 of vol. 4 of the above, LIMITED EDITION, one of 75 copies printed for private distribution, color frontispiece. Author's presentation inscription on front free endpaper to his fellow ornithologist Ludlow Griscom, original photogravure portrait of the author mounted inside front cover; together 5 vols., 4to, partly unopened. McGill/Wood p. 518; Nissen IVB 728. (5)
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PHILLIPS, JOHN C. A Natural History of the Ducks, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin 1922-26, 4 vols., original canvas-backed boards, paper title labels, uncut, 3 of 4 original slipcases (broken), spines darkened, 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. [With:] Bibliography of A Natural History of the Ducks, Cambridge 1926, original cloth, uncut, corners bumped, offprint of pp. 321-447 of vol. 4 of the above, LIMITED EDITION, one of 75 copies printed for private distribution, color frontispiece. Author's presentation inscription on front free endpaper to his fellow ornithologist Ludlow Griscom, original photogravure portrait of the author mounted inside front cover; together 5 vols., 4to, partly unopened. McGill/Wood p. 518; Nissen IVB 728. (5)