Lot 317
Birds.- Hume (Allan Octavian) and Charles H.T.Marshall., The Game Birds of India, Burmah and Ceylon, Calcutta, 3 vol., 1st ed., 1878-81; and 10 others, India (13)
Hammer Price: £350
Description
Birds.- Hume (Allan Octavian) and Charles H.T.Marshall. The Game Birds of India, Burmah and Ceylon, 3 vol., 144 hand-coloured lithographed plates, wood-engraved pictorial titles, numerous errata and addenda slips inserted, occasional scattered foxing, original pictorial cloth, gilt, rebacked preserving original backstrips, a little rubbed and mottled, new endpapers, Calcutta, [1878]-81 § Jerdon (T.C.) The Birds of India, 3 vol., half-titles, vol.3 title a little damp-stained, modern half morocco, Calcutta, 1862-64 § Barras (Col. Julius) India and Tiger-Hunting, 2 vol., occasional light foxing, original cloth, spines browned, spine ends and corners bumped, rubbed and darkened, 1885, first editions; and 5 others, India, 8vo (13)
Description
Birds.- Hume (Allan Octavian) and Charles H.T.Marshall. The Game Birds of India, Burmah and Ceylon, 3 vol., 144 hand-coloured lithographed plates, wood-engraved pictorial titles, numerous errata and addenda slips inserted, occasional scattered foxing, original pictorial cloth, gilt, rebacked preserving original backstrips, a little rubbed and mottled, new endpapers, Calcutta, [1878]-81 § Jerdon (T.C.) The Birds of India, 3 vol., half-titles, vol.3 title a little damp-stained, modern half morocco, Calcutta, 1862-64 § Barras (Col. Julius) India and Tiger-Hunting, 2 vol., occasional light foxing, original cloth, spines browned, spine ends and corners bumped, rubbed and darkened, 1885, first editions; and 5 others, India, 8vo (13)