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Allan Hume
(1829 - 1912)

Stray Feathers: A Journal of Ornithology for India and its Dependencies



ALLAN HUME, Stray Feathers: A Journal of Ornithology for India and its Dependencies, Calcutta: T Black and Co., 1872-99

(Set of 12 Volumes)
3 hand-coloured lithographed plates, 5 uncoloured lithographed plates (four folding); 10 folding maps (some hand-coloured); volume 2 lacks final five pages of index and here supplied in photocopy; volume 11 lacking preliminary leaves but with upper wrapper tipped in, occasional pencil marks and marginalia by Claude B Ticehurst and Martin Woodcock, bookplate of The Avicultural Society to front pastedowns on all the volumes. index by Charles Chubb
Each volume is original half leather-bound with marbled boards and gilt text at the spine with 5 raised bands
13.6 x 15 x 3 cm (each)

This lot is accompanied by a tipped-in a letter from W M Davison







  Lot 53 of 101  

ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS AUCTION
15-16 JANUARY 2020

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Rs 3,00,000
$4,286

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Category: Books


 









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