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Dresser.History of the Birds of Europe

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9 text vol. including supplement and 4 plate vol., together 13 vol., first edition, list of subscribers, wood-engraved decorative titles, 720 hand-coloured lithographed plates and 2 uncoloured plates after Keulemans, Neale, Wolf and Thorburn, the colouring by Smith or William Mathew Hart, some heightened with gum arabic, all mounted on stubs and very clean, endpapers foxed, bookplate of A.Dudgeon, vol.1-8 contemporary half green morocco, gilt, spines a little rubbed and faded, plates and supplement bound in matching modern half green morocco, [Anker 120; Fine Bird Books p.92; Nissen IVB 267], large 4to, Privately published for subscribers by the author, 1871-81.

***A handsome set of this monumental work..

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