Author: H. G. Adams
Title: Humming Birds
Description: London, Groombridge and Sons, 1856 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this illustrated ornithological study of hummingbirds from author Henry Gardiner Adams. With hand-coloured plates. First edition. Illustrated with eight hand-coloured plates and many vignette images. Collated complete. A detailed ornithological study on hummingbirds with reference to their habits, habitats, species, and more. Dated from the British Library.With twelve pages of advertisements to the rear.Written by Henry Gardiner Adams, an English druggist and chemist, known as an author and anthologist. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with gilt detailing. Back strip and board perimeters age toned, with mark to centre of rear board. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Joints starting, with fraying of cloth to joints. Boards somewhat tenderly held. Front free endpaper and frontispiece detached and loosely inserted. Internally, binding strained. Pages significantly age toned due to paper type, with light spotting and handling marks. Good Only . Ill.: H. G. Adams. Good Only .
Keywords: Humming Birds, Described and Illustrated h g adams ornithology birds h g adams H. G. Adams
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Title: Humming Birds
Description: London, Groombridge and Sons, 1856 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this illustrated ornithological study of hummingbirds from author Henry Gardiner Adams. With hand-coloured plates. First edition. Illustrated with eight hand-coloured plates and many vignette images. Collated complete. A detailed ornithological study on hummingbirds with reference to their habits, habitats, species, and more. Dated from the British Library.With twelve pages of advertisements to the rear.Written by Henry Gardiner Adams, an English druggist and chemist, known as an author and anthologist. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with gilt detailing. Back strip and board perimeters age toned, with mark to centre of rear board. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Joints starting, with fraying of cloth to joints. Boards somewhat tenderly held. Front free endpaper and frontispiece detached and loosely inserted. Internally, binding strained. Pages significantly age toned due to paper type, with light spotting and handling marks. Good Only . Ill.: H. G. Adams. Good Only .
Keywords: Humming Birds, Described and Illustrated h g adams ornithology birds h g adams H. G. Adams
Price: GBP 65.00 = appr. US$ 92.82 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 936F7
- Book number: 936F7
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