James Edmund Harting | A handbook of British birds, 2 editions and notes

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James Edmund Harting

A handbook of British birds. London: John van Voorst, 1872, FIRST EDITION, presentation copy inscribed by the author to the ornithologist Howard Saunders, 8vo, numerous notes, clippings, and correspondence bound in or loosely inserted, original cloth, rebacked retaining original spine

Another edition [the second]. London: John C. Nimmo, 1901, one volume bound in 3, 8vo, THE AUTHOR’S COPY with his notes, interleaved, clippings, notes and correspondence bound in or loosely inserted, plates bound in the third volume, contemporary half morocco

Idem. “Harting’s British birds addl. notes” An octavo-sized folder so titled on spine containing cuttings and notes relating to the above work