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Legge's A History of the Birds of Ceylon.

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Legge's A History of the Birds of Ceylon.

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LEGGE, W. VINCENT, Captain

A History of the Birds of Ceylon. London: Taylor and Francis for the author, 1880. First edition, second issue with 3 appendices. Two volumes, modern half morocco. 12 x 9.5 inches (30.5 x 24 cm); xlvi, 1237 pp., erratum slip in volume I; 33 hand-colored lithographed plates after J.G. Keulemans and A. W. Strutt (heightened in gum Arabic), chromolithographed oological plate (Plate 34: "Eggs of 17 Peculiar Species"), 12 woodcut illustrations in the text, colored lithographic map, figures in text, tipped-in sheet with a photo of the author. About fine.

Anker 284; Fine Bird Books, p. 89; McGill/Wood, p. 439; Nissen IVB 539; Zimmer, pp. 282-283

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