THE BIRDS OF BERKSHIRE AND BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. A Contribution to the Natural History of the Two Counties.
by KENNEDY, Alexander W.M. Clark
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About This Item
Eton/London: Ingalton and Drake/Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1868. . 8vo., pp.xv,232, uncut, recased with new endpapers, pictorial green cloth, gilt, pictorial spine, 4 hand-coloured mounted photographs, including frontispiece; pasted-in nameplate to front paste-down endpaper, toning to edges, and occasional light foxing, rubbing to extremities, with light loss to head and foot of original spine, a good+ copy.
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- Bookseller
- MINSTER GATE BOOKSHOP
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- Title
- THE BIRDS OF BERKSHIRE AND BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. A Contribution to the Natural History of the Two Counties.
- Author
- KENNEDY, Alexander W.M. Clark
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Eton/London: Ingalton and Drake/Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1868.
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