Fifteen birds indigenous to France, including a falcon, buzzard, eagle, golden plover, blue tit and woodpecker. Chromolithograph after M. Georges.

The British Museum: the Zoological Gallery, crowded with holiday visitors. Wood engraving, 1845.

Fifteen birds indigenous to France, including a snipe, kingfisher, hoopoe, cuckoo, heron and stork. Chromolithograph after M. Georges.

4 volumes, 128 (i.e. 129) colour plates : 4 frontispiece (portraits), illustrations, add. colour t.ps ; (8vo).

The natural history of the birds of Great Britain and Ireland / By Sir William Jardine.

cxlii, 2 unnumbered pages, 186 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations (wood engraving) ; 18 cm (8vo)

Essays on natural history, chiefly ornithology. Second series: with a continuation of the autobiography of the author. / by Charles Waterton.

1 volume<br/>1 leaves + 13 leaves (last blank). 4to. 221/2 ? ; 18 cm Original paper covers. Name cut out in two places on the first leafolio

Ornithology: 18th cent.

Manuel d'ornithologie, ou description des genres et des principales espèces d'orseaux / Par R.P. Lesson.

1 print : chromolithograph ; image 24.2 x 31.7 cm

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The natural history of the birds of Great Britain and Ireland / By Sir William Jardine.

Essays on natural history, chiefly ornithology. Second series: with a continuation of the autobiography of the author. / by Charles Waterton.

Ornithology: 18th cent.

Manuel d'ornithologie, ou description des genres et des principales espèces d'orseaux / Par R.P. Lesson.

Fifteen birds indigenous to France, including a snipe, kingfisher, hoopoe, cuckoo, heron and stork. Chromolithograph after M. Georges.

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The natural history of the birds of Great Britain and Ireland / By Sir William Jardine.

Essays on natural history, chiefly ornithology. Second series: with a continuation of the autobiography of the author. / by Charles Waterton.

Ornithology: 18th cent.

Manuel d'ornithologie, ou description des genres et des principales espèces d'orseaux / Par R.P. Lesson.

Fifteen birds indigenous to France, including a snipe, kingfisher, hoopoe, cuckoo, heron and stork. Chromolithograph after M. Georges.

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