ID 1026107
Lot 3 | Rough notes on the birds observed... in the British Islands, 1881-87, 3 vol., original half morocco
Estimate value
£ 3 000 – 4 000
FIRST EDITION, 3 volumes, folio (426 x 332mm.), 114 hand-coloured lithographed plates after Edward Neale, 2 coloured maps, contemporary half morocco by R.H. Porter, top edges gilt, some light spotting, extremities slightly rubbed
Edward Booth was a wealthy bird-watcher and sportsman who stuffed his own specimens and mounted them in their natural surroundings in glass cases. It was these specimens, now in the Brighton Museum, which Neale used for his drawings. "These are very handsome folio plates whose composition is similar to those in Dresser's book" (Jackson).
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