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Order of Trustees of the British Museum , 1893. Volume 22. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Re-bound by library. Medium red cloth 8vo with gilt lettering on backstrip. Some light general wear. Red speckled page edges. Yellow patterned end papers. Interior is secure, clean and clear. Trimmed. Contains 8 coloured plates at back. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1050grams, ISBN:

Ex-Libris Collegii-Sancti-Davidis. Presented by the Trustees of the British Museum. Two labels on the pastedown of each volume, no other library marks. Brown publisher's binding, text pages uncut. Faint trace of an access no. on the spine. Pp. xvii + 688. With 8 chromolithographs by J. Smit & 6 by J.G. Keulmans. Plate no. 5a has some light foxing around the inner & top edges.

Ex. University of London Library, bookplate on front endpaper. Presented by the Trustees of the British Museum, bookplate on front pastedown. Brown publisher's binding. Small circular embossed stamp at the bottom of the title page. Endpapers discoloured. Pp. xvii + 688. With 8 chromolithographs by J. Smit & 6 by J.G. Keulmans.

London: The British Museum, 1898. First Edition . Cloth - Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. John G. Keulemans and J. Smit. 687 pages, plus 14 color plates after John G. Keulemans and J. Smit. Ex-Library in red cloth library binding that is a little faded over spine. Call numbers are gold stamped into spine. There are a few mostly non-intrusive small library stamps. There are one inch circular blind stamps on all plates. The stamps are barely visible and are mostly in the colored back ground.

Order of the Trustees, 1892. Volume 17. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Large red cloth 8vo. Gilt lettering on backstrip. Yellow end pages. Interior is secure. Panel of a bird. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1050grams, ISBN:

London: The British Museum, 1898. First Edition . Cloth - Hard Cover. Fair/No Dust Jacket. John G. Keulemans and J. Smit. 687 pages, plus 14 color plates after John G. Keulemans and J. Smit. Museum presentation book plate on front paste down, and private library book plate of Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee on adjacent free end leaf. Cloth covers are a little scuffed and rubbed, and there is a little light wear at spine ends and corners. Hinges (internal) are broke, though loosely holding. Front free end leaf is detached and chipped. First few leaves are darkened. Remaining contents including plates are clean and intact.

London: British Museum, sold by Longmans & Co., B. Quaritch, Kegan Paul & Co, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. xvi, 585pp., 7 plates, 17p. catalogue. Volume XXII. Original brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. Spine faded, gilt a little dulled, crack in the cloth at the rear joint, with some light and faint staining to the rear board. Spine ends and corners a little bumped, interiors fresh and almost entirely unopened. Presentation slip from the British Museum tipped-in at the front hinge. Coloured plates in fine condition. A nice copy. From the library of Harry G. Lumsfeld, biologist and research scientist with Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources. In 2004 Harry Lumsfeld became a Member of the Order of Canada for his outstanding contribution to wildlife management and conservation.

London, the Trustees of the British Museum, 1898. 8vo (22.1 x 14.4 cm). xvii, 688 20 pp.; 14 chromolithographed plates by Smit and Keulemans (numbered I, IA-IC, II, IIA, III-V, VA-VB, VI-VIII). Original blind stamped cloth with gilt title on the spine. = Rare part of a large series, but the only volume dealing with the groups mentioned in the title. With fine chromolithographed plates by the famous Dutch bird painters John Gerrard Keulemans and Joseph Smit. Top of spine a bit frayed, endpapers cracked in gutters. Pictorial bookplate and stamp on front pastedown, stamp on title page verso, otherwise a very good, clean copy. Nissen IVB, 175; 838; Zimmer, pp. 95-98, 584.

London: Order of the Trustees, 1912. 1st Edition . Very scarce complete five-volume set, published in 1901, 1902, 1903, 1905 and 1912, respectively. Very good plus in original light brown cloth with slight shelf wear and a touch of soiling. "Presented by the Trustees of The British Museum" label affixed to front pastedown or flyleaf of each volume. Bindings firm, with gilt titles on spines bright and clean. Cataloguing 3,890 bird species represented by nearly 70,000 types of eggs; included are 79 full-page color plates. A beautiful set.

1901. London, 1901-12. 5 orig. full cloth and 79 fine chromolithographed plates by H. Grønvold. Zimmer p. 98. Anker No 71 (only 4 vols). In the 5 volumes altogether 69.828 specimens of Eggs are mentioned, distributing among 3890 Species. With the exception of those in the exhibition Galleries, this catalogue deals with all the eggs found in the collection of the Museum. A fine scarce set.