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Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1850. First Printing. Leather. Bound in half green morocco over green silk boards, spine in six compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering on one burgundy and one green leather labels, elaborate gilt tooling in remainder, double gilt borders on covers, t.e.g., marbled endpapers. Profusely illustrated with 72 full-page, full-color, plates of British Birds and their Eggs. . Rear board detached but present, front hinge starting, corners bumped, else fine; text block tight and square, clean and bright, all illustrations clean and bright. VERY GOOD. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. iv, 206 pp .

London: Willis and Sotheran, 1857 A good set in contemporary rebacked cloth bindings with 322 colour plates of birds, 102 colour plates of eggs and 8 black and white plates. The original cloth was probably a shade of green but it has sunned. It has been rebacked in a dark green relaying the original gilt-decorated spines which are mostly complete. The bindings are therefore sound and tight but there is a lot of wear to corners with varying degrees of bumping, corner turning, fraying and loss of cloth. Newer marbled endpapers have been added and each volume has an armorial bookplate of K I Beynon to the front pastedown, with the motto 'Gwell Dysg Na Golud' (the original motto of Llandovery College). Internally the volumes are complete and the plates are well-coloured. All the title pages have a small ink signature of Spencer Nicholl to the top. There is sporadic light marking which is mostly to margins, particularly the side margin and occasional foxing to text. The top margin has dark toning… Read More

LONDON, NICKISSON, 1842-50. FIRST OCTAVO EDITION, SEVEN VOLUMES COMPLETE, VERY NICELY BOUND IN HALF GREEN LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARDS, MARBLED ENDPAPERS, RAISED BANDS, GILT TITLES. WITH 432 PLATES, MOSTLY COLOURED (322 OF BIRDS AND 110 OF EGGS). VOLUME 1 HAS BEEN MORE RECENTLY REBOUND THAN THE OTHERS BY MALTBYS OF OXFORD BUT IN THE SAME STYLE. WITH THE BOOKPLATE OF COSMO NEVILL. EXCEPTIONALLY CLEAN AND TIDY. VERY SCARCE.

London: G.W. Nickisson / Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1842-1850. iv, 230; iv, 233, [1]; iv, 240; iv, 215, [1]; iv, 192; iv, 185; viii, 206, 425 hand-col plates (322 birds, 103 eggs), 7 plain plates, title vignettes. . HB. 7 vols, 8vo, late 19 century, full polished calf, dec. gilt border to boards and turn-ins, raised bands to spines, gilt tooling to compartments, leather title pieces, marbled endpapers, aeg. Some foxing/spotting to endpapers/prelims and occasionally elsewhere, but mostly clean. Small perforation to one leaf with loss of a few letters of text. Duplicated typescript list of Plates of eggs tipped in at rear of each volume. Bookplates of James S. North, from a design by C. Haldane Macfall dated 1901. A fine set.. First octavo edition, complete in 7 volumes. Fine hand-coloured plates of birds (322) and eggs (103). Also with cancel of plate facing p. 50 in Vol. II.Nissen IVB 628..

London: No 1, Great Piazza, Covent Garden; 136 Strand.: G. Willis; Willis and Sotheran, 1853. 2nd Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. MEYER H.L.. Near Fine, complete, 7 volumes, 1853-1857, 322 hand coloured lithographs of birds, plus, 105 hand coloured lithographs depicting 270 eggs, plus 8 uncoloured lithographs illustrating 16 figures. Complete, appears to be a variant issue of the 2nd edition. Uniformly bound in contemporary half green morocco over red marbled boards, some gilt tooling, edges, corners rubbed. Spines, decorative gilt tooling & titles, raised bands, some fading, edges rubbed. Internally, Vol 1, 1853, frontis, [4], (iv-vi), [1], 4-230 pp, 65 pls (45 col birds, 14 col egg leaves, 7 B&W figures), ink name to ffep (Alfred Darby). Vol 2, 1853, frontis, iv, [1], 2-233 pp, [1], 58 pls (45 col birds, 13 col eggs), printed by S. & J. Bentley, Wilson, and Fley, Bangor House, Shoe Lane, London. Vol 3, 1854, frontis, iv,… Read More