A General History of Birds, 11 volumes, complete with index, bound in 5 thick volumes Publisher Koudansha Publisher Place Tokyo

Publisher Koudansha Publisher Place Tokyo Date Published 1981 Date Published Estimated No Edition First Number of Volumes Reprint No Condition Fine Condition Description Fine copy in the original fine slipcase still in the publisher's pictorial shipping box

top page edge gilt

The larger format of the present work allowed these fine illustrations to be published without any folds

Publisher printed by Richard Taylor Publisher Place London Date Published 1832 Date Published Estimated No Edition First Number of Volumes 1 Reprint No Condition Very Good Condition Description Many of the lithographed plates show scattered foxing

One of the truly great flower books of the early 19th century with superb hand-colored plates

A General History of Birds, 11 volumes, complete with index, bound in 5 thick volumes Publisher Koudansha Publisher Place TokyoPp. xxxii, 375, (1); (2), 340; (4), 416; (4), 362, (1); (2), 350, (1); (4), 416; (2), 362, (1); (2), 376, (1); (2), 391, (1); (2), 433, (1); 456; index: (2), 17, (134); with 193 hand colored copperplate engravings. Early one half calf leather, spine lettered in gilt and with gilt panel lines and other gilt decorations, over original marbled boards with matching marbled endpapers, most volumes with tissue guards present, thick 4to (10 3 4 x 8 1 2