Natural History, Birds – Sharpe (R. Bowdler, LLD), A Handboo...

Hammer

£120

Natural History, Birds – Sharpe (R. Bowdler, LLD), A Handbook to the Birds of Great Britain, London, Edward Lloyds, 4 vols. 1896-97 12mo, numerous chromolithographic illus., bound maroon boards, gilt lines & titles; Coward (T. A., FZS), The Birds of the British Isles and their Eggs London, Frederick Warne, 5th edn., 1936, 3 Vols. (1st to 3rd series) 12mo colour illus., after Archibald Thorburn, Vol. 1 vii + 412, 42 plates, 73 photographic, Vol. 2, 6th edition 1936 viii + 402, 213 colour illus. 69 photographic, Vol. 3, 2nd edn. 1934 ix-308 with general index, 68 colour illus., 68 photographic, all bound gilt and black decorated brown boards, gilt titles; the same, series 1 & 2, Vol. 1 7th edn. 1956, 398pp, 252 colour illus, 73 photographic, Vol. 2 8th edn., 1950, 384pp., 203 colour illus,, 66 photographic, ex Long Row Boys’ Council School, Belper, title pp loose bindings as previous but faded, stained and rubbed; also Roberts (Dr. Austin), The Birds of South Africa, London, H F & G Witherby & Johannesburg, Central News Agency, 1st edn., 1940 8vo, xxxi + 463 coloured plates and line drawings, bound blue boards, gilt titles to spine; Helme (Eleanor Edith. FZS), Feathered Friends of Field and Forest, London, Religious Tract Society, n. d. (c. 1932) 16mo, 124 pp, 16 coloured plates & many line drawings after Barbara Briggs LZS, bound green embossed boards, gilt titles (11)