Humming-Birds. Vol. I (Jardine's Naturalist's Library. Ornithology. Vol. I)
- Publisher : W.H. Lizars, Stirling & Kenney
- Published In : Edinburgh
- Illustrations : frontis, hand-coloured title vignette, 34 hand-col plates
Description:
First edition. The volume contains a memoir of Linnaeus with an accompanying engraved portrait.
Anker 223.
Condition
Sm. 8vo, orig. cloth, some wear, spine faded. Later ink inscription and pencil note to fly-leaf. Plates clean.
Vg copy. Full polished calf (some fading and a few stains); marbled endpapers + edges; gilt rule to border; gilt inner dentelles; gilt tooling to spine faded; spine labels chipped (one largely missing). endpapers browned; some marginal browning to prelims; one section slightly sprung, but firm. Plates and text clean