Ornithology and Natural History, a collection of 21 various ...

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Ornithology and Natural History, a collection of 21 various volumes, including Witherby, Jourdain, Ticehurst & Tucker: 'The Handbook of British Birds', L, Witherby, 1958, 8th impression, 5 volumes, 157 colour plates + numerous maps and ills. in text as called for, uniform original cloth gilt, dust wrappers; Colonel G. Montagu; James Rennie: 'Ornithological Dictionary of British Birds', London, Hurst, Chance & Co, 1831, 2nd edition, lx,592pp, wood engraved vignette ills. in text throughout, contemporary plain cloth, printed paper label to spine; Charles Dixon: 'Open-Air Studies in Bird Life: Sketches of British Birds on Their Haunts', London, Charles Griffin, 1903, colour frontis + numerous ills. by Charles Whymper and others, original pictorial cloth gilt; E.C. Arnold: 'British Waders', Cambridge University Press, 1924, 1st edition, 52 tissue guarded colour plates as called for, large 4to, original cloth gilt, top edge gilt, dust wrapper; Hugh Whistler: 'A Popular Handbook of Indian Birds', L, Gurney & Jackson, 1941, 3rd edition, revised & enlarged, 21 colour plates as called for, original cloth gilt, d/w; Claud B. Ticehurst: 'A History of the Birds of Suffolk', L, Gurney & Jackson, 1932, 1st edition, folding map + numerous ills. from photographs as called for, orig. cloth gilt, d/w; A.G. Butler: 'Foreign Birds for Cage and Aviary', L, "The Feathered World", c.1910, 2 volumes, 205,[5]pp; 304,[6]pp, colour & b/w plates, uniform orig. cloth gilt; Capt. W. Coape Oates: 'Wild Ducks: How to Rear and Shoot Them', L, Longmans, 1905, 4 photogravure plates + 12 ills. from photos as called for, orig. cloth gilt, top edge gilt; Jean Dorst: 'The Life of Birds', Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974, 1st UK edition, 2 vols, orig. cloth, d/w's; Sir John Lubbock: 'Ants Bees & Wasps', 1929, new edition, 4 colour plates as called for, orig. cloth, d/w; E. Pinhey: 'Hawk Moths of Central and Southern Africa', L, Longmans, 1962, 1st edition, author Typed Letter Signed loosely inserted, 17 colour plates + ills. in text as called for, orig. cloth, d/w; plus 4 others similar (21)