George Robert Gray | A fasciculus of the birds of China, 1871

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Books from the Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven

George Robert Gray

A fasciculus of the birds of China. London: 1871

4to (335 x 252mm.), 12 hand-coloured lithographed plates by or after William Swainson, original boards, rebacked, light scattered spotting, dampstain to upper margin of final plate

George Robert Gray came from a family of natural historians, and this publication contains plates originally intended for a work on Chinese birds by his brother, the zoologist John Edward Gray.

Fine Bird Books, p. 79; Nissen IVB 389; Zimmer, p. 271

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