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L13401
14 May 2013 • London
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216 lots
  • 1. Bolton, James
    Harmonia Ruralis; Or, an essay towards a natural history of British song birds... a new edition, revised and very considerably augmented. London: W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1830
    Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP
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  • 2. Buffon, George Marie Leclerc Comte de
    An illustrated manuscript copy of part of the Histoire naturelle. French, late eighteenth or early nineteenth century
    Estimate: 5,000 – 6,000 GBP
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  • 3. Foreign Finches in Captivity. London: L. Reeve & Co., [1894-1896]
    Estimate: 1,500 – 2,500 GBP
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  • 4. Cassin, John
    Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America. Intended to contain descriptions and figures of all North American birds not given by former American authors. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, [1853]-1856
    Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP
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  • 5. Curtis, John
    British Entomology; being illustrations and descriptions of the genera of insects found in Great Britain and Ireland. London: printed for the author, 1823-1840
    Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP
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  • 6. Donovan, Edward
    A collection of 5 works, uniformly bound in 20 volumes, comprising:
    Estimate: 6,000 – 8,000 GBP
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  • 7. Dresser, Henry Eeles
    A Monograph of the Coraciidae, or the Family of Rollers. Farnborough, Kent: published by the author, 1893
    Estimate: 3,000 – 5,000 GBP
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  • 8. Dresser, Henry Eeles
    A History of the Birds of Europe. London: published by the author, 1871-1886, first edition, 9 volumes (including supplement), 4to (317 x 247mm.), 721 hand-coloured lithographed plates by and after J.G. Keulemans, J. Wolf, E. Neale and A. Thorburn, contemporary half morocco, top edge gilt, [Anker 120; Fine Bird Books, p.72; Nissen IVB 267], bookplate of Sir Edward Priaulx Tennant, Bart.
    Estimate: 7,000 – 9,000 GBP
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  • 9. Du Fouilloux, Jacques
    La Venerie... de nouveau reveue, et augmentée, outre les precedentes impressions. Edited by [?]Jean de Sansicquet. Paris: en la boutique de l'Angelier chez Claude Cramoisy, 1624
    Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP
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  • 10. Four original drawings of marine life made for Freycinet’s Voyage autour du monde (1824-1837)
    Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP
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  • 11. Godman, Frederick du Cane
    A Monograph of the Petrels (order tubinares). London: Witherby & Co., 1907-1910
    Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP
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  • 12. Gould, John
    Spotted crake (Porzana maruetta), original watercolour drawing (visible area 320 x 425mm.), oval mount, framed and glazed
    Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP
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