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Birds.- Thorburn (Archibald) Game Birds and Wild-Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland, first edition,

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MORRIS, B R: MORRIS, B R MORRIS, B R: British Game Birds and Wildfowl, Groombridge, no date. Complete with 60 hand coloured plates. 4to. Original cloth gilt; rubbed and with tears to spine; internally very clean.

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Camden's Britannia with Robert Morden maps: Heading: Author: Camden, William Title: Britannia: or a chorographical description of Great Britain and Ireland, together with the adjacent islands Place Published: London Publisher:James and John Kn

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Dickens (Charles) Great Expectations, 3 vol., first edition, vol. 1-2 second issue, vol. 3 first: Dickens (Charles) Great Expectations, 3 vol., first edition, vol. 1-2 second issue, vol. 3 first issue, 32pp. publisher's catalogue dated May 1861 at end of vol.3, occasional light finger-soiling to m

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Ireland.- Petty (William) Hiberniae Delineatio...,: Ireland.- Petty (William) Hiberniae Delineatio..., first edition of the first atlas of Ireland, engraved portrait frontispiece of Petty by Edwin Sandys, double-page engraved frontispiece and contents

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JOHN SPEED 17TH C. MAP, GREAT BRITAIN.: John Speed map, ”The Kingdome of Great Britaine and Ireland,” engraved by J. Hondius, printed by Sudbury and Humble, London, 1610, with insets of London, Edinburgh, and the Orkney Islands,

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17 vols. Handbook of the Birds of the World.: [Orthinology] Handbook of the Birds of the World. Lynx Editions, Barcelona, 1992-2012. 17 volumes. 4to. Hardcovers with dust jackets.Condition: Fine.Provenance: From the Library of the Godfather of Bi

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FORSHAW; COOPER. KINGFISHERS AND RELATED BIRDS. 2V: Forshaw, Joseph M.; Cooper, William T. KINGFISHERS AND RELATED BIRDS. 2 volumes. Sydney/London/Auckland: Lansdowne Editions, 1983-5. 282; 564 pp. 2 folios in uniform binding. Half blind-tooled navy mo

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Atlases to 1871 edition of American Ornithology: Heading: (Ornithology) Author: Wilson, Alexander & Charles Lucian Bonaparte Title: American Ornithology, or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States. Plates engraved and colored from ori

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Voyages.- Dampier (William) A New Voyage Round the World, first edition, for James Knapton, 1697.: NO RESERVE Voyages.- Dampier (William) A New Voyage Round the World, first edition, 5 engraved maps (4 folding), folding frontispiece wormed at lower margin, some marginal foxing or light soiling, ink

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[Dombes (Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, Prince de)] Le Cuisinier gascon, first edition, Amsterdam [i.e: [Dombes (Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, Prince de)] Le Cuisinier gascon, first edition, title with woodcut ornament, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, spotted, occasional staining, lightly brown

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LE PAGE DU PRATZ, Antoine-Simon. Histoire de la Louisiane. FIRST EDITION. COMPLETE.: LE PAGE DU PRATZ, Antoine-Simon (1695?-1775). Histoire de la Louisiane, Contenant la Decouverte de ce vaste Pays. Paris: Bure, Delaguette and Lambert, 1758. 3 volumes, 12mo (167 x 96 mm). Half-titles,

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Birds.- Thorburn (Archibald) Game Birds and Wild-Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland, first edition,

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NO RESERVE Birds.- Thorburn (Archibald) Game Birds and Wild-Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland, first edition, 30 colour plates, tissue-guards, occasional foxing to text, original cloth, bumping and fraying to spine ends and corners, fading and damp-staining to covers, folio, 1923.

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Birds.- Thorburn (Archibald) Game Birds and Wild-Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland, first edition,

Name: Birds.- Thorburn (Archibald) Game Birds and Wild-Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland, first edition,
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