FIVE VOLUMES. SECOND EDITION. THE WORK IS ILLUSTRATED FROM HIS LETTERS WITH OCCASIONAL NOTES AND NARRATIVE BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN LORD SHEFFIELD. BOUND IN HALF BLACK LEATHER OVER BLUE CLOTH RAISED BANDS. FRONT BOARD TO VOL. 1 DETACHED OTHERWISE A VERY NICE SET CLEAN AND TIGHT SOME RUBBING TO THE LEATHER. NEAT BOOKPLATE OF MR HUGH RENTON ON THE FRONT PASTEDOWN. VOLUME 1 MEMOIRS AND LETTERS pp530; VOLUME 2 LETTERS pp 502; VOLUME 3 HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL pp612; VOLUME 4 MISCELLANEOUS pp600; VOLUME 5 CLASSICAL AND CRITICAL pp648 THE LAST VOLUME HAVING SOME MATERIAL WRITTEN IN FRENCH.
WITH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES. SMALL OCTAVO 329 PAGES CRUDELY BOUND IN WORN CLOTH STRENGTHENED HINGES BUT INTERNALLY CLEAN AND COMPLETE.
FINELY BOUND IN HALF RED LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARDS FINE GILT TOOLING TO THE SPINE. T.E.G. MARBLED ENDPAPERS. NO DATE BUT CIRCA 1900 THE OCTAVO EDITION OF AINSWORTHS’ WORKS WITH THE ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS. VERY GOOD. AN ATTRACTIVE COPY.
VERY GOOD COPY IN VERY GOOD SLIPCASE. INCLUDES:- THE WORLD OF BIRDS NORTH AMERICA: THE NEARCTIC REALM SOUTH AMERICA: THE NEOTROPICAL REALM EURASIA: THE PALAEARCTIC REALM AFRICA: THE ETHIOPIAN REALM SOUTHERN ASIA: THE ORIIENTAL REALM AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND: THE AUSTRALASIAN REALM. THE OCEANIC REALM THE WORLD-WIDE BIRDS THE POLAR REALM CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS. VERY HEAVY SO WILL REQUIRE EXTRA POSTAGE.
SELF-PUBLISHED CARD WRAPS 201 PAGES WITH MANY BLACK AND WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS. A HISTORY OF THE COASTAL AND INLAND WATERWAYS SHIPS AND CRAFT OWNED AND OPERATED BY THE MOBIL OIL CO. AND ITS PREDECESSOR COMPANIES 1882-1999. BASED ON ‘THE BOOK OF TUGS AND BARGES’ BY ARTHUR GORDON IN 1954. VERY SCARCE.
