28th Jul, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Manuscripts

 
  Lot 60
 

60

Morris (Francis Orpen). A History of British Birds, 2nd edition, London: Bell and Daldy, 1870....

Morris (Francis Orpen). A History of British Birds, 2nd edition, London: Bell and Daldy, 1870. 6 volumes, royal 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, bookplates (Edwyn Jervoise, d.1955, architect and antiquary), 363 chromoxylographic plates (365 usually cited), advertisement leaf to volume 6, wear to spine-ends - ibid. A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds, 2nd edition,. London: George Bell and Sons, 1875. 3 volumes, royal 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, 233 chromoxylographic plates numbered 1-232 (including one extra plate numbered 17*) - Badham (Charles David). A Treatise on the Esculent Funguses of England, 2nd edition, London: Lovell Reeve & Co., 1863. 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, 12 hand-coloured lithographic plates, 16 pp. advertisements, bookplate (Thomas Frederick Gwatkin Warburton Dunston of Burltons), spine torn at head, front inner hinge cracked - Cholmondeley-Pennell (Henry). The Sporting Fish of Great Britain, 1st edition, trade issue, London: Sampson Low [et al.], 1886. 8vo, original cloth (marked), 20 lithographic plates (all but 2 in colours), advertisement leaf, inscribed 'Mr P. T. Canefield[?] Esq with the author's kind compliments' on title-page, later ownership inscriptions and ink-stamps on half-title - Simkins (James). The Pansy: and How to Grow it and Show it, 1st edition, Birmingham: Cornish Brothers, 1889. 8vo, original cloth, 4 colour plates, 8 pp. advertisements, inscribed 'To Martha, with the best love of the author, April 16th 1889' on front free endpaper - and 5 others, 19th-century natural history (qty: 17) Mullens & Swann pp. 417 (Morris, British Birds), 418 (Morris, Nests and Eggs).

Sold for £600
Estimated at £150 - £250


 

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