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Author: Elliot, Daniel Giraud
Title: The Birds of Daniel Giraud Elliot: A Selection of Pheasants and Peacocks painted by Joseph Wolf and taken from the Original Monograph published in New York, 1872. Edited and Introduced by Adrian Thorpe
Place: Kent (OH)
Publisher: Volair Ltd.
Date: [1979]
Item # : 172304
Sale Number   331
Lot Number   86
Sale Name    
Hunting - Sporting - Angling - Natural History; with Books in All Fields
Sale Date   05/11/2006
Price realized   $ 92
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Description:
Unpaginated, [12] pp. + 12 color plates, each with accompanying text page. (Folio) 22x17, green cloth. Limited Edition of 1000 copies, this number 536.
A selection from one of the greatest of the nineteenth century bird books - the "Monograph of the Phasianidae, or the Family of Pheasants."
Condition:
Slight bump to lower corners; else fine in very good pictorial dustjacket.
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