£440
Contribution To Ornithology 1851 - 52. By Sir William Jardine, BART, Edinburgh, 1852.
Sold at Sotheby New York Dec 1989 for £1922.37.
The book is illustrated throughout with hand tinted lithographers to a very high standard. It is a subscription work issued in parts, regarded as the first British periodical devoted to ornithology. The collection includes hand-coloured lithographs and was published by W.H. Lizars in Edinburgh
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