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LOT 2947

Bird Book Collection - 5 Titles

1961-1993 A.D.

8 1/2 x 5 3/4 - 12 x 9 1/4 in. (4.67 kg total, 21.5 x 14.5 - 30.5 x 23.5 cm).

Oliver L. Austin - Birds of the World - Feltham, 1983 edition, hardback with dustwrapper, 318 pp, colour; Andrew Branson - Illustrated Encyclopedia of Birds - Abingdon, 1993, hardback with dustwrapper, 240 pp, colour; Foreign Birds. Magazine of the Foreign Bird League, vol 27, no.4, July-August 1961, paper covers, 40 pp; Francesca Greenoak - All the Birds of the Air - London, 1979, hardback with dustwrapper, 325 pp, line drawings; G.T. Dodwell - canary Standards in Colour: An Exhibitor's Guide to the canary Fancy - Liss, 1986, hardback, 151 pp, 25 colour plates. [5, No Reserve]

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From the library of an East Anglian gentleman, 1970s-early 2000s.

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LOT 2947

Bird Book Collection - 5 Titles

Estimate £10 - 20€12 - 23 (for guidance only)$14 - 27 (for guidance only)

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