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LOT 2602
Books on Wild Flowers - 2 Volumes
1855-1856 A.D.
5 5/8 x 4 1/2 in. (660 grams total, 14.2 x 11.3 cm each).
Anne Pratt - 2 volumes each hardback with moulded covers, gilt titling to spine; Volume 1: London, 1855, 192 pp, colour plates; Volume 2: London,1856, 190 pp. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceProperty of a Cornwall, UK, gentleman.
FootnotesProduced by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
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Pigeons and Doves: A Guide to the Pigeons and Doves of the World
2001 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
David Gibbs, Eustace Barnes and John Cox - Robertsbridge, 2001, hardback with dustwrapper, 615 pp, colour plates, maps. 1.67 kg, 24.8 x 18 cm
From the library of an East Anglian gentleman, 1970s-early 2000s. -
Parrots and Parrot-Like Birds
1929 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Marquess of Tavistock - London, 1929, hardback with cloth covers, 298 pp. 923 grams, 25 x 19.5 cm
From the library of an East Anglian gentleman, 1970s-early 2000s. -
Bird Book Collection - 5 Titles
1961-1993 A.D.Estimate: £20 - 30 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
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. 4.67 kg total, 21.5 x 14.5 - 30.5 x 23.5 cm
From the library of an East Anglian gentleman, 1970s-early 2000s.
