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GRAVES (George): BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY being the history with a coloured representation of every known species of British Birds, 3 vols. in 2, London, for the author by Stephen Couchman, 1811-1813-[1821] [bound with] OVARIUM BRITANNICUM, being a correct delineation of the eggs of such birds as are natives of, or domesticated in Great Britain, London, for the author, 1816
FIRST EDITIONS, 4 vols. in 2, 8vo, (230 x 140mm.), Ornithology with 144 hand-coloured engraved plates, Ovarium with 15 hand-coloured plates (lacking vol. III title to Ornithology), contemporary green calf, gilt, spines with red and black morocco labels (vol. II joints repaired)
Fine set of one of the rarest of the early English avifaunas. Nissen IVB 366, 387; Mullens and Swann 246; Fine Bird Books p. 79 (2)
FIRST EDITIONS, 4 vols. in 2, 8vo, (230 x 140mm.), Ornithology with 144 hand-coloured engraved plates, Ovarium with 15 hand-coloured plates (lacking vol. III title to Ornithology), contemporary green calf, gilt, spines with red and black morocco labels (vol. II joints repaired)
Fine set of one of the rarest of the early English avifaunas. Nissen IVB 366, 387; Mullens and Swann 246; Fine Bird Books p. 79 (2)