Lot 321
Birds.- Priest (Captain Cecil D.) The Birds of Southern Rhodesia, 4 vol., 1933-36; and 12 others, birds (16)
Hammer Price: £310
Description
Birds.- Priest (Captain Cecil D.) The Birds of Southern Rhodesia, 4 vol., plates and maps, ex-library of the Royal Empire Society, with bookplates and ink stamps to endpapers, endpapers a little damp-stained, damp-staining to covers, 1933-36 § Jackson (Sir Frederick John) The Birds of Kenya Colony and The Uganda Protectorate, 3 vol., portrait frontispiece, folding colour map and 24 colour plates after G.E.Lodge, captioned tissue-guards, spine faded, covers mottled, vol.3 with dust-jacket, 1938 § Archer (Sir Geoffrey) and Eva M. Godman. The Birds of British Somaliland and the Gulf of Aden, 4 vol., 28 colour plates after Archibald Thorburn, folding maps, vol.1 rather rubbed and market, vol.3 & 4 with dust-jackets, 1937-61, first editions, illustrations, original cloth; and 5 others, birds, 8vo & folio (16)
Description
Birds.- Priest (Captain Cecil D.) The Birds of Southern Rhodesia, 4 vol., plates and maps, ex-library of the Royal Empire Society, with bookplates and ink stamps to endpapers, endpapers a little damp-stained, damp-staining to covers, 1933-36 § Jackson (Sir Frederick John) The Birds of Kenya Colony and The Uganda Protectorate, 3 vol., portrait frontispiece, folding colour map and 24 colour plates after G.E.Lodge, captioned tissue-guards, spine faded, covers mottled, vol.3 with dust-jacket, 1938 § Archer (Sir Geoffrey) and Eva M. Godman. The Birds of British Somaliland and the Gulf of Aden, 4 vol., 28 colour plates after Archibald Thorburn, folding maps, vol.1 rather rubbed and market, vol.3 & 4 with dust-jackets, 1937-61, first editions, illustrations, original cloth; and 5 others, birds, 8vo & folio (16)