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A Handbook of British Birds. Showing The Distribution of the Resident and Migratory Species in the British Islands with an Index to the Records of the Rarer Visitants.

Harting, J. E. · London

Author
Harting, J. E.
Date
1901
Place
London
Publisher
John C. Nimmo
Language
English
Binding
8vo.(5.75" x 8.875") 520 pp. Full brown cloth with gilt illustration of bird head centered to upper board, spine with gilt lettering and gilt vignette towards foot. Top edge gilt, others deckled. Maroon endpapers, titlee page in red and black ink, color plate as frontispiece. Edgewear, corners lightly bumped and rubbed, head and foot of spine ruffled with tiny closd tears. Spine repair to a lenghthwise split to spine cloth, ding to fore-edge of upper board, spine ligghtly sun-faded. Covers lightly soiled. Bookseller's notes in pencil to prelims. Illustrated with 35 colored plates of multiple birds to each plate.
Format
35 coloured plates.
Category
Fore-Edge Paintings
Record
S.I.4196

A Handbook of British Birds. Showing The Distribution of the Resident and Migratory Species in the British Islands with an Index to the Records of the Rarer Visitants. J. E. Harting. 1901. London: John C. Nimmo. 35 coloured plates. 8vo.(5.75" x 8.875") 520 pp. Full brown cloth with gilt illustration of bird head centered to upper board, spine with gilt lettering and gilt vignette towards foot. Top edge gilt, others deckled. Maroon endpapers, title page in red and black ink, color plate as frontispiece. Edgewear, corners lightly bumped and rubbed, head and foot of spine ruffled with tiny closed tears. Spine repair to a lengthwise split to spine cloth, ding to fore-edge of upper board, spine lightly sun-faded. Covers lightly soiled. Bookseller's notes in pencil to prelims. Illustrated with 35 colored plates of multiple birds to each plate.

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