F b kirkman ed (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. No Edition Remarks. Unpaginated. Pictorial dust jacket over pictorial paper covered boards. Prize plate stuck to front free endpaper. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Slight cracking to gutters causing binding to be loose, however pages remain attached. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A bright first edition of this sweeping work of natural history concerning British sporting birds, featuring some lovely coloured plates. A guide to the natural history and the sporting value of the main British game birds, first edition of this large paper volume. Edited by F. B. Kirkman and Horace G. Hutchinson, with contributions on sporting by Douglas Cairns, Max Baker, &c. and on natural history by W. P. Pycraft, William Farren, et al.Studies of pheasant, quail, grouse, woodcock, and other species.An impressive volume illustrated with forty-three lovely plates drawn from the British Bird Book, of which thirty-three in colour and ten in black and white. Collated, complete. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only, lightly bumped to head and tail of the spine and extremities. Alan Thornton's bookplate to front pastedown. Previous owner's gift inscription to front free endpaper, dated 1929. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Illustrated with thirty-three lovely full page colour plates and ten plates in black and white. Collated, complete. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Volumes I to III (of IV). with coloured drawings and many photographs. Large 4to. Hardbacks. Minor worm tracks to a few leaves front of Vol. 2, very minor amount of spotting, o/w. contents fine. Original cloth boards, in vg. condition showing some mottling to front edges. A monumental work.…