From Hereward Books, Ely, CAMBR, United Kingdom
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AbeBooks Seller since 03 February 1999
About this Item
xi 142 pages, advert leaf, TEG, large folio, illustrated with 18 coloured plates, 17 photogravures, and 2 other illustrations by Archibald Thorburn and J.G. Millais, plus 1 other plate with 2 b/w photograph illustrations all plates are clean and the contents free of foxing. This copy numbered 185 of a limitation of 550 copies, bound in the publishers two tone cloth with gilt title to the upper cover, a very good copy +. The book covers the natural history, habits, habitat, and shooting of game birds. Schwerdt notes "A fine publication, one of the few modern shooting books which has considerably risen in value probably on account of the plates after Thorburn, printed by Albert Frisch of Berlin which are exceptionally beautiful. Schwerdt Vol 2 27/28. Chute 453. Seller Inventory # 23859
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Natural History Of The British Game Birds
Publisher: Longmans Green and Co
Publication Date: 1909
Edition: 1st Edn,.
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