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BEEBE, Charles William (1877-1962). A Monograph of the Pheasants. London: Witherby, 1918-22. 4 volumes, 4° (400 x 304mm). 90 coloured lithographic or collotype plates after Thorburn, Lodge, Grönvald, Fuertes, C.R. Knight, H. Jones and C. Megargee, 88 photogravure plates from photographs by Beebe and others and 20 distribution maps. (Occasional very light spotting and browning, mainly to endpapers and tissue guards.) Original red cloth, top edges gilt (extremities very lightly rubbed).
BEEBE, Charles William (1877-1962). A Monograph of the Pheasants. London: Witherby, 1918-22. 4 volumes, 4° (400 x 304mm). 90 coloured lithographic or collotype plates after Thorburn, Lodge, Grönvald, Fuertes, C.R. Knight, H. Jones and C. Megargee, 88 photogravure plates from photographs by Beebe and others and 20 distribution maps. (Occasional very light spotting and browning, mainly to endpapers and tissue guards.) Original red cloth, top edges gilt (extremities very lightly rubbed).

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BEEBE, Charles William (1877-1962). A Monograph of the Pheasants. London: Witherby, 1918-22. 4 volumes, 4° (400 x 304mm). 90 coloured lithographic or collotype plates after Thorburn, Lodge, Grönvald, Fuertes, C.R. Knight, H. Jones and C. Megargee, 88 photogravure plates from photographs by Beebe and others and 20 distribution maps. (Occasional very light spotting and browning, mainly to endpapers and tissue guards.) Original red cloth, top edges gilt (extremities very lightly rubbed).

ONE OF 600 COPIES. Anker 31; Mengel 203: 'perhaps the greatest ornithological work of the present century'; Nissen IVB 84; Wood 228; Zimmer p.49. (4)

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