Lot 878
878
ORNITHOLOGY -- DES MURS, O. Musée ornithologique illustré. Description des oiseaux d'Europe, de leur oeufs et de leur nids. Paris, J. Rothschild, 1886-87. 4 in 5 vols. W. 345 very fine cold. chromotypograph (kind of colour etching) plates under tissue guards. Lge-8°. Cont. red h. mor. binds., dec. gilt spines raised in compartments, marbled endpapers. (Spine vol. 3 skilfully rep., tissue guards causing light stencil marks on plates and preceding pages, else a fine set).
Classic work on European ornithology depicting the birds in their natural habitat together with their eggs. Comprising vol. 1: Les oiseaux d'eau ou palmipèdes; vol. 2: Les oiseaux de rivage et les coureurs; vol. 3: Les oiseaux des champs et des bois ou passereaux; vol. 4: Les oiseaux de proie ou rapaces. - Nissen IVB 240.€ 800
result € 600
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