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Books on Ornithology [Set of 2] - Stuart Baker, Allan Hume and Marshall - Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters
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Books on Ornithology [Set of 2]

a) Hume and Marshal, The Game Birds of India, Burma and Ceylon, Calcutta: A O Hume and C H T Marshall, 1879-1881

Set of 3 Volumes
Volume I: ii; 279 pages including 45 hand-coloured lithographed plates. Published in 1879, this volume is dedicated to ducks, swans and geese
Volume II: 264 pages including 44 hand-coloured lithographed plates. Published in 1880, this volume is dedicated to snipe, bustards and sand-grouse
Volume III: 438 pages including 54 hand-coloured lithographed plates; 4 famous colour egg plates and 6 index pages. Published in 1881 this volume is dedicated to pheasants and bustard-quail
In original green boards with gilt-stamped peacock illustrations on front boards; gilt lettering and ruling on front boards and spines; blind-stamped on rear boards
26.5 x 16.5 x 3.5 cm (each)

One of the classics of ornithology literature and the definitive volumes on the game birds of the Indian subcontinent.

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