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1838 The Natural History of the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland Part One. Birds of Prey
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Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding
The first edition.
Part of the 'Naturalist's Library' series edited by Sir William Jardine.
Bound in decorative cloth, with gilt fore edges.
Illustrated by a frontispiece portrait of Sir Robert Sibbald, an engraved title page and 34 engraved, hand coloured plates by Stewart. Collated complete.
This work was written by Sir William Jardine and provides an ornithological study of birds of prey and a memoir of Sir Robert Sibbald, a writer of historical works who is known for his study of wales. Jardine was a Scottish naturalist and is best known for this series of natural history books. This volume focuses on birds of prey including Falcons and Eagles.
Condition
Bound in full cloth. Engraved title page and blanks retained. Externally very smart with slight marks to the boards, fading to the spine, bumping to the extremities and very minimal loss to the cloth to the head and tail of the spine with very small closed tears. Owner's stamp belonging to a 'S. D. Dumbrell' to the front pastedown with slight marks to the endpapers and lacking front free endpaper. Internally firmly bound with rear hinge tender after pp.314. Generally bright pages with only very minimal age toning to the extremities and the odd spot. The odd plate closely cropped resulting in minor loss to the illustrations.
Very Good
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