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Illustrations Of The Game Birds And Water, Fowl Of South America

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Price: £1250.00

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Edition: 1ST Thus

Publisher: John Wheldon & Co

Summary: (11) pp 4to 38 hand-coloured plates by Gronv?ld the original printed card wraps bound at the rear. Bound in near contemporary half dark red morroco, a fine copy of a scarce work. This series of plates was originally intended to appear as a portion of the illustrations of Lord Brabourne and C. Chubb's work "The Birds Of South America ". The Death of Lord Brabourne ended that work only one volume had been issued and before any of the plates had appeared, although some of plates had appeared, some of these were completed and others were in the course of preparation. Later these plates were issued separately under the present title, with short explanatory notes by H Kirke Swann. A first series of 19 plates appears to have been issued in 1915 the remainder with the short text appeared in 1917 in paper wraps and limited to 200 copies. Zimmer p. 276.

Ref: 24450

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