Birds.- Rickman (Philip) Bird Sketches and Some Field Observations, Artist's Presentation Copy,
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Birds.- Rickman (Philip) Bird Sketches and Some Field Observations, artist's presentation copy inscribed to his wife, original watercolour and gouache frontispiece heightened with white, vignette title, 33 lithographed plates (1 coloured with captioned-tissue guard), original vellum, gilt, lightly rubbed and toned, [Nissen IVB 775], 1938; A Bird-Painter's Sketch Book, first edition, one of 125 copies signed by the author, original pencil sketch pasted inside upper cover, additional original pencil vignette below frontispiece, both initialed and dated by the author, 34 lithographed plates (11 coloured with captioned tissue-guards), original vellum-backed blue cloth, spine gilt, lightly rubbed and spotted, [Nissen IVB 774], 1931, illustrations, scattered spotting to first and last few leaves, t.e.g.; and another illustrated by Rickman, 4to (3)
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Birds.- Rickman (Philip) Bird Sketches and Some Field Observations, Artist's Presentation Copy,
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