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Wolf (Joseph). Feathered Favourites. Twelve Coloured Pictures of British Birds, 1st edition, London: Thomas Bosworth, 1854, 12 circular chromolithographic plates mounted on card within floral gilt borders, spotting to mounts, later gift inscription to title-page, all edges gilt, original red pictorial cloth gilt, recased, slightly marked, restoration to tips, 4to, together with: Green (J. F.), Ocean Birds, with ... a Treatise on Skinning Birds by F. H. H. Guillemard, London: R. H. Porter, 1887, 6 chromolithographic plates, bookplate and ownership inscription dated 1893 of D. Losh Thorpe, original maroon cloth, large 4to, Crichton (A. W.), A Naturalist's Ramble to the Orcades, 1st edition, London: John van Voorst, 1866, tinted lithographic frontispiece after J. Wolfe, 8 pp. advertisements, bookplate removed from front pastedown, original green pictorial cloth gilt, small 8vo, Darton and Co., (publisher), Our Favourite Birds. By Agnes, 1st edition, London: Darton and Co., [1859], 8 hand-coloured wood-engraved plates, original pictorial boards, 4to, Gurney (John Henry , A Descriptive Catalogue of the Raptorial Birds in the Norfolk and Norwich Museum, part one: containing Serpentariidae, Polyboridae, Vulturidae, [all published], 1st edition, London: John van Voorst, 1864, original blind-stamped cloth, a very bright copy, 4to, and 8 others, mainly early-20th-century British ornithology, original cloth, 8vo and 4to (Qty: 13) Darton H10 (Darton and Co.); Mullens & Swann pp. 659 (Wolf), 155 (Crichton), 258 (Gurney); Wood pp. 633 (Wolf: 'Good examples of the work produced by this master of animal portraiture'), 368 (Green), 305 (Crichton).