By Charles Whymper
London   Adam and Charles Black
9.5" by 7" x, 1-221 [7]pp
The first edition of Charles Whymper's informative volume on the ornithology of Egypt and the Nile Valley, illustrated throughout with colour plates.
By Charles Whymper

1909 Egyptian Birds, For the Most Part Seen in the Nile Valley

London   Adam and Charles Black
9.5" by 7" x, 1-221 [7]pp
The first edition of Charles Whymper's informative volume on the ornithology of Egypt and the Nile Valley, illustrated throughout with colour plates.
£190.00
: 1.5kgs / : 974F24

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Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition of this work.

Charles Whymper's important ornithological study of the birds native to and common to Egypt, particularly those seen along the Nile Valley.

Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, and fifty-colour plates, with further vignette line drawings.

Collated, complete.

With six pages of advertisements to the rear.

Condition

In the publisher's original cloth binding. Boards bright, with back strip lightly age toned and with bumps to back strip head and tail. Front hinge strained, and a touch tender. Rear hinge strained, but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with the instances of spotting to page perimeters.

Very Good

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