HUME and MARSHALL | The Game Birds of India, Calcutta 1879-81, 3 vols

HUME, ALLAN OCTAVIAN, AND CHARLES H.T. MARSHALL

THE GAME BIRDS OF INDIA, BURMAH, AND CEYLON. CALCUTTA: PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHORS, 1879-1881

FIRST EDITION, 3 volumes, 8vo (245 x 150mm.), wood-engraved title-pages, 144 chromolithographic plates, all tipped-in slips as called for by Zimmer, original green pictorial cloth gilt, occasional light spotting, volume 1 rebacked retaining original spine

“An admirable scientific treatise” (Wood).

LITERATURE:

Nissen IVB 463; Wood, p.394; Zimmer, p.314

PROVENANCE:

Vyvyan Edwards, bookplate; acquired from Bernard Quaritch, 1985

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