Game Birds And Shooting-Sketches Illustrating The Habits, Modes Of Capture, Stages Of Plumage And The Hybrids & varieties Which Occur Amongst Them

MILLAIS John Guille

Verlag: Henry Sotheran And Co, 1894

Beschreibung

xiii 185 pages, 16pp adverts, large 8vo pages uncut, full page and text illustrations, armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Original tan cloth with game birds' vignette and title printed in black to the upper board and spine, spine darkened as usual lesser so to the boards. A title where the cloth is often affected by discoloration. The author covers capercaillie, blackgame, grouse and ptarmigan, with notes on the life history and sporting of each bird, (the 1st edition contained colour plates and limited to 550 copies and was a folio edition). This edition only lacks the colour plates, the text remains unchanged. Chute 450 £80. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 22942

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Game Birds And Shooting-Sketches ...

Verlag: Henry Sotheran And Co

Erscheinungsdatum: 1894

Auflage: 2nd, 1st ordinary.