(Ornithology, Birds, Butterflies), Arthur G. Butler; H. Gron...

by TW Gaze
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(Ornithology, Birds, Butterflies), Arthur G. Butler; H. Gronvold & F.W. Frohawk (illustrated): 'Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, Order Passeres, Complete in Two Volumes', London & Hull, Brumby & Clarke, [1908], 1st edition, 2 volumes, 107 chromolitho plates of birds & 8 of eggs as called for, large 4to, original quarter buckram gilt over blue cloth, top edges gilt, others uncut; Henry Seebohm: 'The Birds of Siberia. A Record of a Naturalist's visits to the Valleys of the Petchora and Yenesei', London, John Murray, 1901, 1st edition, folding map + numerous b/w ills. in text throughout, original pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt; William Macgillivray: 'A History of British Water Birds, Indigenous and Migratory', London, William S. Orr, 1852, 2 volumes, 7 engraved full page plates + numerous b/w ills. in text as called for, recased retaining original publisher's cloth gilt, replenished end papers; A.W. Kappel & W. Edmont Kirby: 'British and European Butterflies and Moths (Macrolepidoptera)', London, Nister, [1895], 30 coloured plates as called for, 4to, original pictorial cloth gilt, all edges gilt; plus Saunders 'Manual of British Birds', 1927, Rev J.G. Wood 'Homes Without Hands', 1898, new impression, Montagu & Rennie 'Ornithological Dictionary of British Birds', 1831, Wood 'British Birds in their Haunts', 1867, plus 5 mainly late 19th & early 20th Century ornithological booklets/pamphlets including Whitaker 'Collection of Birds from Morocco', 1897, pp593-610, others Dresser, Tegetmeier etc

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