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MILLAIS, John Guille. The Natural History of the British Surface-Feeding Ducks. London, New York and Bombay: 1902. Large 4° (340 x 305mm). Title in red and black. Illustrated additional title, 65 plates (41 coloured, and of these 13 chromolithographed), after Millais, Archibald Thorburn and others. Original two-tone green cloth gilt, top edge gilt. Provenance: the Earl of Portsmouth (armorial bookplate). LIMITED LARGE PAPER EDITION, this number 375. Anker 340; cf. Nissen IVB 635 (not mentioning the large paper edition); cf. Zimmer p.436 (ordinary edition only); together with British Diving Ducks. London:1913. 2 vols, 2°, original cloth, number 432 of 450 copies.
CHALMERS, Patrick R. Birds ashore and a-foreshore by ...Chalmers ... illustrations ... by Winifred Austen. London: 1935. Large 4° (317 x 255mm). Half-title. 16 coloured plates, numerous uncoloured illustrations, all after Austen. Original green half morocco gilt, top edge gilt. LIMITED EDITION OF 150 COPIES SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ARTIST, this number 33. Nissen IVB 180; and 6 others in seven volumes, all on waders, wild fowl and wild-fowling, including: P. Scott. Wild Chorus, London & New York, 1938, 4°, original cloth, number 737 of 1250 copies; E.C. Arnold. British Waders, Cambridge, 1924, 4°, original vellum-backed cloth, number 50 of 50 copies. (11)
CHALMERS, Patrick R. Birds ashore and a-foreshore by ...Chalmers ... illustrations ... by Winifred Austen. London: 1935. Large 4° (317 x 255mm). Half-title. 16 coloured plates, numerous uncoloured illustrations, all after Austen. Original green half morocco gilt, top edge gilt. LIMITED EDITION OF 150 COPIES SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ARTIST, this number 33. Nissen IVB 180; and 6 others in seven volumes, all on waders, wild fowl and wild-fowling, including: P. Scott. Wild Chorus, London & New York, 1938, 4°, original cloth, number 737 of 1250 copies; E.C. Arnold. British Waders, Cambridge, 1924, 4°, original vellum-backed cloth, number 50 of 50 copies. (11)
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