DIXON, Charles. The Game Birds and Wild Fowl of The British Isles, Sheffield: Pawson & Brailsford, 1900, large 8°, SECOND EDITION, 41 chromolithographed plates after Charles Whymper (occasional light spotting, inner hinges loose), original pictorial cloth (a little soiled) [Zimmer p. 172] -- BREHM, Christian Ludwig. Cassell's Book of Birds, London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin, edited by Thomas Rymer Jones, [1869-73], 4 volumes, 4°, 40 chromolithographed plates (occasional light spotting, inner hinges loose, ownership inscriptions on front free endpapers), original pictorial cloth (extremities rubbed, head and foot of spines bumped and torn). [Zimmer p. 88]

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DIXON, Charles. The Game Birds and Wild Fowl of The British Isles, Sheffield: Pawson & Brailsford, 1900, large 8°, SECOND EDITION, 41 chromolithographed plates after Charles Whymper (occasional light spotting, inner hinges loose), original pictorial cloth (a little soiled) [Zimmer p. 172] -- BREHM, Christian Ludwig. Cassell's Book of Birds, London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin, edited by Thomas Rymer Jones, [1869-73], 4 volumes, 4°, 40 chromolithographed plates (occasional light spotting, inner hinges loose, ownership inscriptions on front free endpapers), original pictorial cloth (extremities rubbed, head and foot of spines bumped and torn). [Zimmer p. 88]

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The first work contains a presentation leaf, dated 1907, signed by Marie C. Stopes and other members of the Manchester University Geologists' Assocation.

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