Natural History, Ornithology. Kennedy (Alexander W.M. Clark,...

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Natural History, Ornithology. Kennedy (Alexander W.M. Clark, "An Eton Boy"), 
The Birds of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire: A Contribution to the Natural History of the Two Counties, signed and inscribed presentation copy from the author to another naturalist with ALS, sole edition, Eton: Ingalton and Drake, London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1868, half-title, photographically-illustrated with 4 hand-coloured albumen prints mounted on card, some contemporaneous ink manuscript annotations and marginalia, gutter splits but holding, original publisher's pictorial green cloth gilt by Burn & Co., their ticket, slight stable split to spine, uncut edges, 8vo, [&] Harting (James Edmund, F.Z.S.), The Birds of Middlesex [...], sole edition, London: John Van Voorst, 1866, lithograph frontispiece, in-text illustrations, original publisher's pictorial green cloth gilt, uncut edges, 8vo, (2). 

Provenance: 2nd: James Edmund Harting (1841 - 1928), ornithologist and naturalist. Presented to him by Kennedy, inscribed and with loosely-inserted ALS, and with Hartings' armorial bookplate to recto pastedown; the annotations and marginalia presumably Harting's.