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A History of British Birds. Volume I Containing the History and Description of Land Birds. Volume II Containing the History and Description of Water Birds by Thomas Bewick - 1826

by Thomas Bewick

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A History of British Birds. Volume I Containing the History and Description of Land Birds. Volume II Containing the History and Description of Water Birds by Thomas Bewick - 1826

A History of British Birds. Volume I Containing the History and Description of Land Birds. Volume II Containing the History and Description of Water Birds

by Thomas Bewick

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T. Bewick, Longman and Co.; printed by Edw Walker, Newcastle and London, 1826. 6th Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Two matching volumes in half leather with banded spines and marbled covers. Rubbed gilt lettering on spines, light wear to joints and corners. Sound binding. End-papers and title pages a little darkened. Clean pages with occasional light foxing. Short paper taped repair in margin of page 1 of Volume II. Small ink splatter on page v of Volume II. xliv, 382, xxii, 432. 2-volume set (complete). No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 16218081086.. This book is heavier than 1kg, and may incur additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations..
  • Bookseller Bailgate Books Ltd GB (GB)
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Very Good Condition
  • Jacket Condition No Dust Jacket
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Edition 6th Edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher T. Bewick, Longman and Co.; printed by Edw Walker
  • Place of Publication Newcastle and London
  • Date Published 1826
  • Keywords BZDB4 NOISBN Natural History, Biology, Botany & Zoology; A History of British Birds Volume I Containing the History and Description of Land Birds Volume II Containing the History and Description of Water Birds Thomas Bewick

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A History Of British Birds Volume I, Containing The History & Description Of Land Birds. Volume II, Containing The History & Description Of Water Birds.

by Bewick, Thomas (Jenny Uglow intro)

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Folio Society, London 2010 (reprinting the 1826 edition, with minor emendations). 23.0 x 15.0cms, c 760pp, b/w illusts, 2 fine hardback volumes with decorated boards in fine plain slipcase. Volume I covers: birds of prey (falcons, owls, shrikes); birds of the pie kind (prieles, woodpeckers; grosbeaks; buntings; finches; flycathers; larks;warblers; titmouses; swallows; doves; gallinaceous; grouses; bustards; plowers) Volume II covers: herons; spoonbills; ibises; curlews; snipes; godwits; sandpipers; oyster-catchers; avosets; gallinules; coots; phalaropes; grebes; guillemots; divers; terns; predatory gulls; petrels; merguses, anases; pelicans; auks.
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