A History Of British Birds

Illustrated with 358 full-page engraved, hand-colored plates. 4to. Bound in original contemporary publisher's ½-leather-backed cloth, gilt decorations on spine, 5 raised bands, all edges marbled. London: Groombridge and Sons, 1851-1857. First Edition. First Issue. 6 volumes. Only the first edition sets were fully hand colored. In later editions the backgrounds were not colored. Morris's A History of British Birds was… Read more about this item

London: Groombridge and Sons, 1851-1857. Hardcover. Fair.. 4to.. Published in six volumes, plainly bound in brown buckram with gilt lettering to spines. Bindings in all volumes are worn and splitting, with markings to boards. Loose pages in some volumes but all present. Volumes 1 and 2 have split shoulders. Volume 6 has water damage and the binding is… Read more about this item

Leeds; (nd But Ca.1860): D. Banks. Hard Cover. Small Octavo. Four volumes in eight (lacking vol. 8) 155 hand-colored plates in total, bound in green blind stamped cloth, spines lettered in gilt, pale yellow coated endpapers. Neat owner's stamped name and name plate on FEP of each volume; text and plates are all free from foxing. An interesting set… Read more about this item

Fine illustrated and antiquarian Ornithology . 1st. Ed. Pub. Groombridge & Sons. 1851-1857. Six volume set with 358 fine hand-coloured plates. Royal 8vo. AEG. Occ. spotting, mostly light, o/w. contents fine. Neat pencil annotation to blank margin of Vol. V ‘Heard the Corncrake at Ripon, April 25th 1893’. Finely bound in 20th century crushed red half morocco, spines richly… Read more about this item

London: Groombridge & Sons, 1851. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/No Jacket. First edition 1851 - 1857 All 6 volumes in the publisher's original decorative cloth, gilt. A Fine set - ineed the best we have ever seen. Occasional spotting to text and a few plates in vol 1 & trivial light spotting to edges of textblock of one or… Read more about this item