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Buller. A History of the Birds of New Zealand

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4 vol. including 2 vol. Supplement, second edition, 3 lithographed (including portrait) and 58 chromolithographed plates, 12 hand-coloured plates, tissue guards, some minor spotting and finger-soiling, contemporary half morocco, spine gilt in compartments, some spine ends and corners a little scuffed, supplement vols. spines slightly faded, [Nissen 163; Wood p.269], folio, [1887]-1888 & 1905-1906.

***An excellent copy of this famous work. The second edition was "issued by subscription and in 13 parts, and appears as a decidedly enlarged issue of the first edition printed in 1872." Wood.

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