A fasciculus of the birds of China, 1871

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Lot 49 | A fasciculus of the birds of China, 1871
A fasciculus of the birds of China. London: 1871

4to (335 x 252mm.), 12 hand-coloured lithographed plates by or after William Swainson, original boards, rebacked, light scattered spotting, dampstain to upper margin of final plate

George Robert Gray came from a family of natural historians, and this publication contains plates originally intended for a work on Chinese birds by his brother, the zoologist John Edward Gray.
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