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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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Bird Books on Warblers, Sunbirds, Tits, Nuthatches & Treecreepers
1994-2001 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Jon Curson, David Quin and David Beadle - New World Warblers - London, 1994, hardback with dustwrapper, 252 pp, colour plates; Simon Harrap and David Quin - Tits, Nuthatches & Treecreepers - London, 1996, hardback with dustwrapper, 464 pp, colour plates; Robert A. Cheke, Clive F. Mann and Richard Allen - Sunbirds - A Guide to the Sunbirds, Flowerpeckers, Spiderhunters and Sugarbirds of the World - hardback with dustwrapper, 384 pp, colour plates. 3 kg total, 24 x 16 - 24.5 x 17.5 cm
From the library of an East Anglian gentleman, 1970s-early 2000s. -
Books on Birds - 8 Titles
1945-1977 A.D.Estimate: £20 - 30 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
W.D. Campbell - Birds of Town and Village - London, 1965, hardback with dustwrapper, 156 pp, colour plates; E.H. Ware - Wing to Wing: Bird-Watching Adventures at Home and Abroad - London, 1946, hardback with cloth covers,159 pp, line drawings, monochrome plates; Reg Jones - Birds of the Norfolk Broads - Norwich, 1977, card covers, 24 pp, colour; E.A.R. Ennion - The British Bird - Oxford, 1945 reprint, hardback with dustwrapper, 172 pp, monochrome; M.K.C. Scott & J.A. Henderson - Birds - London, n.d., hardback with cloth covers, 112 pp, colour plates; Roger Peterson et al. - A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe - London, 1959 edition, hardback with cloth covers, 318 pp, colour plates, line drawings; W. Willett & C. Hall - A Pocket Book of Common British Birds - London, 1952, hardback with dustwrapper, 93 pp, colour plates; British Birds Magazine March 1956, paper covers, 31 pp, line drawings. 2.78 kg total, 17 x 13.4 - 29.5 x 24 cm
From the library of an East Anglian gentleman, 1970s-early 2000s. -
The Original Watercolor Paintings by John James Audubon for The Birds of America - 2 Volumes
1966 A.D.Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £22
M.B. Davidson (ed) - New York, 1966, 2 volumes, hardback with cloth covers in slipcase, colour. 5.5 kg total, 35.5 x 28 cm
From the library of an East Anglian gentleman, 1970s-early 2000s.
