A General History of Birds, 11 volumes, complete with index, bound in 5 thick volumes This work is attractively bound

This work is attractively bound in custom textured blue cloth

The image is of Westermann's Cassowary

Publisher Koudansha Publisher Place Tokyo Date Published 1981 Date Published Estimated No Edition First Number of Volumes Reprint No Condition Fine Condition Description Fine copy in the original fine slipcase still in the publisher's pictorial shipping box

Publisher printed by Richard Taylor Publisher Place London Date Published 1832 Date Published Estimated No Edition First Number of Volumes 1 Reprint No Condition Very Good Condition Description Many of the lithographed plates show scattered foxing

One-quarter red morocco leather

A General History of Birds, 11 volumes, complete with index, bound in 5 thick volumes This work is attractively boundPp. xxxii, 375, (1); (2), 340; (4), 416; (4), 362, (1); (2), 350, (1); (4), 416; (2), 362, (1); (2), 376, (1); (2), 391, (1); (2), 433, (1); 456; index: (2), 17, (134); with 193 hand colored copperplate engravings. Early one half calf leather, spine lettered in gilt and with gilt panel lines and other gilt decorations, over original marbled boards with matching marbled endpapers, most volumes with tissue guards present, thick 4to (10 3 4 x 8 1 2