Author: MARBLE, CHARLES C. (EDITOR)
Title: Birds in Natural Colors (Six Volumes Bound in Three): A Monthly Serial: A Guide to the Study of Bird-Life
Description: Chicago: A. W. Mumford, 1899. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Six volumes in three books. Each is 3/4 leather over black boards, ornate embossed gilt title on covers, gilt lettering on spine, floral endpapers. Illustrated with 160 color plates. Book 1 is Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 of Birds in Natural Colors, a monthly serial covering January 1897 to June 1897 and having 60 illustrations by color photography. Book 2 is Vol. III and IV, covering January 1898 to June 1898 with 60 illustrations. Book 3 is Vol. V and VI and is title Birds and All Nature with 40 illustrations in color and covering January 1899 to May 1899. All three books are rubbed on the spine and tips, with two of the books having loss to the leather at the head of the spine, cracked hinges in all books and a total of three loose plates which are tattered at the edges, former owner's name on each title page. FAIR.. Color Plates. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. 242, 240, 240 pp. Fair with no dust jacket .

Keywords: Birds; Nature; Reference; Bird Watching; Illustrated Books; Illustrated Books Reference Gardening and Nature


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