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NATURAL HISTORY -- Eleazar ALBIN (fl. 1713-59). A Natural History of English Song-Birds, and Such of the Foreign as are usually brought over and esteem'd for their Singing ... The Third Edition, London: for C. Ware, 1759. 8°, engraved frontispiece and 23 plates (title browned at edges, some light spotting and browning). Contemporary sheep gilt (rebacked). Freeman 48; Nissen IVB 17; cf. Zimmer p.3.
With 12 other works or part works of related interest in 17 volumes including Thomas Mawe's Every Man his own Gardener. Being a New, and much more complete Gardener's Kalendar ... the Twelfth Edition (London, 1788, contemporary calf), Buffon's Natural History, Abridged (London, 1792, 2 vols., contemporary calf neatly rebacked), Thomas Bewick's History of British Birds (Newcastle, 1797-1804, 2 vols., modern morocco) and Francis Orpen Morris's A History of British Butterflies (London, 1868, hand-coloured plates). (18)
With 12 other works or part works of related interest in 17 volumes including Thomas Mawe's Every Man his own Gardener. Being a New, and much more complete Gardener's Kalendar ... the Twelfth Edition (London, 1788, contemporary calf), Buffon's Natural History, Abridged (London, 1792, 2 vols., contemporary calf neatly rebacked), Thomas Bewick's History of British Birds (Newcastle, 1797-1804, 2 vols., modern morocco) and Francis Orpen Morris's A History of British Butterflies (London, 1868, hand-coloured plates). (18)
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