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| BREE, Charles Robert. A History of the Birds of Europe
not Observed in the British Isles. London: Groombridge and Sons, 1859,
1860, 1862, 1863. Quarto, contemporary three-quarter morocco gilt,
marbled endpapers. Four volumes. $2900. First editions of Charles Bree's exquisitely illustrated History of the Birds of Europe. Complete with 238 hand-colored tinted lithographed plates (180 of birds, 58 of eggs). Bookplates on front pastedowns. Light scattered foxing (plates generally clean); light rubbing to bindings. A very handsome set. |
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