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4 volumes. Illustrated with 30 photogravure plates, 120 duotone plates, plus numerous illustrations in the text from photographs by Donald R. Dickey, Wright M. Pierce, Wm. L. Finley & the author; plus 44 drawings in the text & 110 color plates from paintings by Major Allan Brooks & others. 12¼x9½, original polished half green calf and cloth, ruled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. One of 100 sets of the Large Paper Edition, De Luxe, this copy undesignated. First "Santa Barbara Edition, De Luxe."

Signed by Dawson on the limitation page. Includes a 16-page booklet Bibliographical Notes on Dawson's Birds of California with eight illustrations by W. Lee Chambers (reprinted from The Condor, Vol. XLI, No. 6, Nov-Dec., 1939, pp. 231-243), laid in. Nissen 225; Ayer, Ornithological Library, p. 162.