BEEBE, CHARLES WILLIAM A Monograph of the Pheasants. London: Witherby 1918-22. 4 vols., folio, original maroon cloth, gilt-lettered, t.e.g., very slightly rubbed, extreme edges of leaves a trifle darkened. LIMITED EDITION, no. 120 of 600 copies, 90 color halftone and chromolithograph plates after Thorburn, Lodge, Grönvold, Jones, Knight, Fuertes and Megargee, 88 photogravure plates and 20 distribution maps, lettered tissue guards. Ayer/Zimmer, pp. 49-50; Ellis/Mengel 203 ("Perhaps the greatest ornithological monograph of the present century..."); McGill/Wood, p. 228; Nissen IVB 84. Provenance : W.B.O.F., bookplate. (4)
BEEBE, CHARLES WILLIAM A Monograph of the Pheasants. London: Witherby 1918-22. 4 vols., folio, original maroon cloth, gilt-lettered, t.e.g., very slightly rubbed, extreme edges of leaves a trifle darkened. LIMITED EDITION, no. 120 of 600 copies, 90 color halftone and chromolithograph plates after Thorburn, Lodge, Grönvold, Jones, Knight, Fuertes and Megargee, 88 photogravure plates and 20 distribution maps, lettered tissue guards. Ayer/Zimmer, pp. 49-50; Ellis/Mengel 203 ("Perhaps the greatest ornithological monograph of the present century..."); McGill/Wood, p. 228; Nissen IVB 84. Provenance : W.B.O.F., bookplate. (4)
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