THE PROPERTY OF A LADY 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, marginal tear to a text leaf in vol. 3 . LIMITED EDITION, no. 244 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 : Charles Livingston Bull of Oradell, N.J., inscription on edition limitation leaf, Oradell, N.J. Dr. Evan Morton Evans (1870-1955) Daniel Webster Evans (1907-1966). (4)
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY 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, marginal tear to a text leaf in vol. 3 . LIMITED EDITION, no. 244 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 : Charles Livingston Bull of Oradell, N.J., inscription on edition limitation leaf, Oradell, N.J. Dr. Evan Morton Evans (1870-1955) Daniel Webster Evans (1907-1966). (4)
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