A NATURAL HISTORY OF ENGLISH SONG-BIRDS And such of the Foreign as are Usually Brought over and Esteemed for Their Singing to which are Added Figures of the Cock Hen and Egg of each Species exactly copied from Nature.
Printed and sold by A. Bettesworth C. Hitch & S. Birt, 1737. Item #199659
1st edn. 8vo (7½ x 4¾ ins). Rebound in recent half calf, raised-ribbed spine with contrasting gilt lettered label, on earlier marbled paper-laid boards (boards lightly scratched - otherwise Fine). Pp. [iv] + 97 + [3] index, illus with engraved frontispiece and 23 engraved plates (fore-edge margin of frontispiece cropped and repaired; pages with occasional light dampstaining; previous owners' bookplate on front paste-down and small name stamp on verso of frontispiece; George's of Bristol bookseller's ticket on rear paste-down).
Price: £1,500.00
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