or the Plovers, Sandpipers, Snipes and their allies, first edition, first issue with Slender-Billed Dotterel as frontispiece and list of plates without page numbers (supplied in pencil), [?one of 220 copies], 21 fine hand-coloured lithographed plates after J.G.Keulemans, tissue guards, wood-engraved illustrations by J.G.Millais and others, some spotting (mostly marginal) and occasional staining to edges, generally a good copy,original cloth, uncut, a little rubbed, [Anker 455; Fine Bird Books p.141; Nissen IVB 850], 4to, [1887-88]. *** A good copy of the rarer and superior first issue.
or the Plovers, Sandpipers, Snipes and their allies, first edition, first issue with Slender-Billed Dotterel as frontispiece and list of plates without page numbers (supplied in pencil), [?one of 220 copies], 21 fine hand-coloured lithographed plates after J.G.Keulemans, tissue guards, wood-engraved illustrations by J.G.Millais and others, some spotting (mostly marginal) and occasional staining to edges, generally a good copy,original cloth, uncut, a little rubbed, [Anker 455; Fine Bird Books p.141; Nissen IVB 850], 4to, [1887-88]. *** A good copy of the rarer and superior first issue.
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