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Game Birds of Kenya & Uganda. (Including the Sand-Grouse, Pigeons, Snipe, Bustards, Geese, and Ducks). Fully Illustrated in Colour.
by JACKSON, SIR FREDERICK J.:
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- Hardcover
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Williams & Norgate, 1926 1st. Hardback, tall, 9 x 6 inches. Green cloth with black lettering to spine and front. In dustwrapper. In very good condition (DW edges torn with chips to corner sand ends of spine, darkened. In protective sleeve.) Some fading to top page edges. Cloth cover clean and smart. Some light foxing to endpapers. Neat inscription to front "David Phillmore." Moderate dark foxing to title page and prelims. Dark foxing spots to pages throughout. Page edges rough cut. Plates with some minor tanning, else clean and bright. Else a clean and tight copy. xv + 258pp. Illustrated with 13 full-page colour plates.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 90731
- Title
- Game Birds of Kenya & Uganda. (Including the Sand-Grouse, Pigeons, Snipe, Bustards, Geese, and Ducks). Fully Illustrated in Colour.
- Author
- JACKSON, SIR FREDERICK J.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Williams & Norgate, 1926 1st
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- NATURAL HISTORY::BIRDS Game Birds of Kenya & Uganda, JACKSON, SIR FREDERICK J.: Sand-Grouse, Pigeons, Snipe, Bustards, Geese, and Ducks, colour illustrated, colour plates, dustwrapper, africa, first edition
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About The Antique Map & Bookshop
The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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