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SELBY (JOHN PRIDEAUX)
Plates to Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology, 2 vol. (without text volumes)

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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SELBY (JOHN PRIDEAUX)

Plates to Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology, 2 vol. (without text volumes), engraved titles with hand-coloured vignettes, 218 hand-coloured etched plates by and after W.H. Lizars, Robert Mitford, William Jardine and Selby, 4 uncoloured etched plates, titles and 4 plates (of which 2 uncoloured) creased, one plate ("cinerous eagle, young") repaired touching image, contemporary green half morocco gilt, g.e. [Nissen IVB 853; cf. Fine Bird Books p.141; Mullens & Swann p. 520; cf. Wood pp. 561-562; cf. Zimmer pp. 571-572.], large folio (675 x 540mm.), Henry G. Bohn, 1841

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Selby's "greatest work will ever be deemed his clebrated illustrations of Illustrations of British Ornithology... our English equivalent of Audubon's great work" (Mullens and Swann, p.518).

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