23rd Nov, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Thorburn (A.).
British Mammals.
Longmans Green, 1920-21, two quarto volumes, fifty colour plates, top edge gilt, original cloth (foxing to endpapers and adjacent leaves, cloth of volume 2 lightly faded in comparison to volume 1, slight crease to upper board of volume 1, corners a little bumped);
idem, British Birds.
Longmans Green, 1917-18, third (I & II) and second (III & IV) editions, four quarto volumes, eighty two colour plates (four or more with unusual ?printing aberration), original cloth (light foxing throughout, cloth lightly faded);
Ogilvie-Grant (W. R.) et al., The Gun at Home and Abroad, British Game Birds and Wildfowl.
London & Counties Press Assoc., 1912, numbered limited edition of 950, large quarto, thirty four plates (twenty-six colour) as called for, some foxing, repaired tear to front pastedown and hinge, top edge gilt, original full morocco
Sold for £160
Estimated at £200 - £300
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 23rd Nov, 2022
Highlights include a collection of Opera scores and books from the Library of the late 7th Earl of Harewood, and two first edition Harry Potter books. Also included are early antiquarian books, modern first editions, illustrations, manuscripts, maps, early photographs, autographed letters and historic documents.
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