Natural History. Ornithology: [Ornithologia Nova], A New Gen...

Hammer

£100

Natural History. Ornithology: [Ornithologia Nova], A New General History of Birds, Including the Methods of Breeding, Managing, and Teaching of Song Birds [...], two volume set, London: J. Osborn, 1745, lacking endpapers, each illustrated with in-text wood engravings, volume I: lacking 13-14pp, corner of 31-32pp chipped with loss of a few words, 64-65pp with stable tear, 68-69pp stable scuff mid-page, 90-91pp defective, pp: 263-264, 303-304, & 339-340 mutilated without loss of sense, the volume with further chips and minor losses in places; volume II: ?lacking divisional title (i.e. A1), 145-146pp pagination chipped and lacking, 267-268pp and final index leaf (i.e. [319-320]pp) lacking, each with some markings in places, contemporary speckled calf, blind-rolled and ruled covers, volume I rebacked, volume II starting to split and with rubbed & bumped losses, early 19th c and later generational inscriptions of the Hogg family, 16mo in 4s; & Aflalo (F.G.) & Marston (R.B.), British Salt-Water Fishes, first edition, London: Hutchinson & Co., 1904, 12 chromolithographed colour plates as called for, original publisher's green cloth gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, 8vo, (3)