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Title: Tabular View of the Orders & Families of Birds
Description: London, The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge/Edward Stanford, 1857. Paperback. A scarce collection of four folding plates, displaying the various species of birds, with engravings. A scarce work in quarter cloth and paper wraps, with a title label to the front of the wraps. Bookplate of Roy R. King, a numismatist and art collector, to the front of the wrap. A collection of four folding plates, arranged according to Mr. G. R. Gray's Genera of Birds (184449), of orders and families of birds. Plates include Orders Accipitres, Passeres, Scansores, Galinae, Gralle and Anseres, and families within these orders. The illustrations were engraved by Joseph Wilson Lowry (18031879), a British engraver who specialised in scientific subjects.Undated, dated through copies held at the Science Museum Library. In quarter cloth and paper wraps. Externally sound, with faint marks to the front of the wraps. Some creasing and small closed tears to the extremities of the wraps. Binding is tender but still held by cords. Folding plates remain smart. Very Good . Ill.: J. W. Lowry. Very Good .
Keywords: Birds Ornithology Engravings Ornithology J. W. Lowry
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Title: Tabular View of the Orders & Families of Birds
Description: London, The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge/Edward Stanford, 1857. Paperback. A scarce collection of four folding plates, displaying the various species of birds, with engravings. A scarce work in quarter cloth and paper wraps, with a title label to the front of the wraps. Bookplate of Roy R. King, a numismatist and art collector, to the front of the wrap. A collection of four folding plates, arranged according to Mr. G. R. Gray's Genera of Birds (184449), of orders and families of birds. Plates include Orders Accipitres, Passeres, Scansores, Galinae, Gralle and Anseres, and families within these orders. The illustrations were engraved by Joseph Wilson Lowry (18031879), a British engraver who specialised in scientific subjects.Undated, dated through copies held at the Science Museum Library. In quarter cloth and paper wraps. Externally sound, with faint marks to the front of the wraps. Some creasing and small closed tears to the extremities of the wraps. Binding is tender but still held by cords. Folding plates remain smart. Very Good . Ill.: J. W. Lowry. Very Good .
Keywords: Birds Ornithology Engravings Ornithology J. W. Lowry
Price: GBP 85.00 = appr. US$ 121.38 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 870M4
- Book number: 870M4
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