Natural History, Birds – Mudie, Robert, The Feathered Tribes...

Hammer

£220

Natural History, Birds – Mudie, Robert, The Feathered Tribes of the British Isles, 2 Vols., London, H. G. Bohn, 1841 2nd edition) 12mo, Vol. 1, 379pp, 31 chromolithographic plates; vol. 2, 391pp, 26 chromolithographic plates, embossed brown boards, gilt titles; Thorburn (Archibald Newton, FZS), British Birds, London, Longman 1926, Vol. 3 of 4 only, 12mo, x + 168 pp, 192 coloured prints, red boards, spine v. faded; Dixon (Charles), The Nests and Eggs of British Birds: when and Where to Find Them, being a handbook to the Oology of the British Islands, London, Chapman & Hall, 1894, 8vo, xii + 371pp, 12 colour plates, 157 other colour illustrations, bound embossed buff boards, gilt titles, top of spine faded and torn at top; Swaysland (W), Familiar Wild Birds, London, Cassell 1903 12mo 3rd ser. 156pp, coloured illustrations after Archibald Thorburn, pattern printed blue boards, gilt titles, flyleaf inscription ‘George Fenoulhet/from/his uncle/R. D. Pedley/Feby. 1909’; another copy of same, 1st series, 1901 160pp, binding en suite; 3rd series and 4th series bound together London, Cassell, n.d. 160pp, viii + 176pp bindings as before but green boards (7)