Dresser, Henry Eeles Eggs of the Birds of Europe, including all the Species inhabiting the Western Palaearctic Area, 2 volumes (text and plates), 1st edition, by the author, [1905]-1910, 106 colour plates, light spotting to one or two plates towards rear, original wrappers bound in at rear of plate volume, bookplates of Walter Somerville Gurney (1858-1942), edges untrimmed, contemporary red half morocco, richly gilt spines, 4to (32 x 25 cm) Anker 121; Mullens & Swann p. 180; Nissen IVB 268; Wood p. 324; Zimmer p. 179. Walter Rothschild, in his obituary of Dresser, declared the The Eggs of the Birds of Europe to be 'a very real and valuable addition to zoological literature, and its best praise is to say that while it completes and rounds off his Birds of Europe, it outshines it in many details' (British Birds, volume 9 pp. 194-6). (Qty: 2)
Dresser, Henry Eeles Eggs of the Birds of Europe, including all the Species inhabiting the Western Palaearctic Area, 2 volumes (text and plates), 1st edition, by the author, [1905]-1910, 106 colour plates, light spotting to one or two plates towards rear, original wrappers bound in at rear of plate volume, bookplates of Walter Somerville Gurney (1858-1942), edges untrimmed, contemporary red half morocco, richly gilt spines, 4to (32 x 25 cm) Anker 121; Mullens & Swann p. 180; Nissen IVB 268; Wood p. 324; Zimmer p. 179. Walter Rothschild, in his obituary of Dresser, declared the The Eggs of the Birds of Europe to be 'a very real and valuable addition to zoological literature, and its best praise is to say that while it completes and rounds off his Birds of Europe, it outshines it in many details' (British Birds, volume 9 pp. 194-6). (Qty: 2)
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