£80 - £100
Robert Mudie: 'The Feathered Tribes of the British Islands', London, Whittaker & Co., 1834, 2 volumes, hand coloured vignette title pages + 19 hand coloured plates, original cloth gilt; William Kirby & William Spence: 'An Introduction to Entomology', L, Longman, 1843, 6th edition, 2 volumes, 5 hand coloured plates of insects as called for, uniform contemporary calf gilt worn, together with volume 1 only of an 1815 edition copy of the same title, 3 hand coloured plates, 30pp appendix dated 1816 bound in at end, old half calf gilt (5)
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