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BREE, Charles Robert (1811-86). A History of the Birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles ... second edition, enlarged, London: George Bell and Sons, 1875-76. 5 volumes, 4° (252 x 180mm.), 253 hand-coloured wood-engraved plates by Benjamin Fawcett, original blue pictorial cloth gilt (spines faded, one signature detaching in vol. VI). Anker 59; Nissen IVB 136; Sitwell Fine Bird Books p. 81; Zimmer I, 88.
DIXON, Charles (1858-1926). The Game Birds and Wild Fowl of the British Islands ... Second edition, enlarged, improved and thoroughly revised by the Author, Sheffield: Pawson & Brailsford, 1900. 4° (285 x 230mm.), title printed in red and black, 41 coloured lithographed plates by Charles Whymper, original pictorial cloth gilt (some light staining), t.e.g. Nissen IVB 253; Sitwell Fine Bird Books p. 91.
With Archibald Thorburn's British Birds (London, 1918, 4 vols., mixed editions), Hugh Pollard's Wildfowl & Waders (London, 1928, limited edition), and another. (12)
DIXON, Charles (1858-1926). The Game Birds and Wild Fowl of the British Islands ... Second edition, enlarged, improved and thoroughly revised by the Author, Sheffield: Pawson & Brailsford, 1900. 4° (285 x 230mm.), title printed in red and black, 41 coloured lithographed plates by Charles Whymper, original pictorial cloth gilt (some light staining), t.e.g. Nissen IVB 253; Sitwell Fine Bird Books p. 91.
With Archibald Thorburn's British Birds (London, 1918, 4 vols., mixed editions), Hugh Pollard's Wildfowl & Waders (London, 1928, limited edition), and another. (12)
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