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ORNITHOLOGY -- MORRIS, B.R. British Game Birds and Wild Fowl. Lond., 1855. iv, 252 pp. W. 60 cold. plates. 4°. Cont. h. mor. extra w. gilt lettering on spine & gold stamped dec. of a pheasant on both sides, a.e.g. (Upper hinge broken, slight foxing/age-yellowing in places, bookplate "Bibliotheca Tiliana" on flyleaf & discreet stamp of same on last p., a very handsome copy).
Nissen IVB 644; Zimmer 442; Anker 345: "(…) hand-coloured plates (wood-engravings) by B(enjamin) Fawcett, who also printed the work (…)".€ 400
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