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Octavo, eight volumes, 3768 pp. 37 (34 coloured) plates. Publisher's red cloth, a handsome clean set.

Tall octavo, 342 pp. 19 colour plates by H. Gronvold, photographs. Very good copy in publisher's brown half morocco.

Octavo, eight volumes, 3564 pp. 86 (85 coloured) plates, text illustrations, folding maps. Publisher's cloth, apart from a few minor corner bumps, a fine set.

Octavo, eight volumes, 3564 pp. colour plates, folding maps. Publisher's cloth, apart from a few minor corner bumps and slight wear, a good set with the ownership stamp of Joseph M. Forshaw.

Quarto, 31 lithographic plates (the first six plates handcoloured) by F. W. Frohawk. [5 parts] in a single volume [all published]. Contemporary half morocco, lacks title page, with the bookplates of John E. Thayer and H. Bradley Martin, a handsome copy free of blemishes.

Folio, four volumes, 90 coloured plates by Thorburn, Grönvold, Lodge and others, 88 photographs, map. Handsome red publisher's cloth, limited to 600 numbered copies, a fine set.

Folio, four volumes, 90 coloured plates by Thorburn, Grönvold, Lodge and others, 88 photographs, map. Handsome red publisher's cloth, limited to 600 numbered copies, a very good set with a few light blemishes and a small worm hole to the first few leaves of volume one, the bookplate of Herbert Rivington Pyne.

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Octavo, two volumes 746 pp. wood engravings. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, some wear, a stain in volume two but not affecting text, a very good copy.

Octavo, two volumes 746 pp.
wood engravings. Contemporary diced calf, rebacked with modern spine and two coloured labels, new endpapers, a very good clean copy.

Large octavo, two volumes, 504 pp. 38 handcoloured plates by H. Gronvold. TEXT (volume one): large octavo, later binder's cloth with leather labeled spine. PLATES (volume two): small quarto, contemporary half red morocco wrappers to part one retained, a very good set.

Octavo, five volumes 1152 pp. 252 chromolithographs. Publisher's blindstamped cloth with gilt design, the library stamps of the Royal Zoological Society of New south Wales throughout but mainly on preliminaries, a sound working set.

Small folio, four volumes. HISTORY: [13 parts in] two volumes, 48 chromolithographs by Keulemans. Contemporary full morocco elaborately gilt. SUPPLEMENTS: two volumes, twelve handcoloured lithographs by Keulemans. Publisher's red gilt decorated cloth, top edges gilt. A magnificent set, very uncommon in this condition.

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Octavo, 1102 pp. 28 (27 of eggs) chromolithographs by Brittlebank, photographs. Publisher's brown decorated cloth [single volume], a few inevitable light marks but a bright crisp copy with no sign of cracked hinges, scarce in this condition

Octavo, four volumes, 3054 pp. three colour plates, photographs and other illustrations. Binder's red cloth, all edges speckled, with the bookplate and signatures of Stephen Marchant, a very good set of a scarce work (only 300 copies of part one were published).

Octavo, four volumes, 3054 pp. three colour plates, photographs and other illustrations. Binder's quarter cloth and marbled boards, all edges speckled, the bookplate of Finn Salomonsen, a very good set of a scarce work (only 300 copies of part one were published).

Quarto, four volumes, 1259 pp. indices, 67 chromolithographs by H. Grönvold. Publisher's printed wrappers, uncut, "with the author's compliments" on the front endpaper of volume one, a fine set.

Small quarto, two volumes, 1339 pp. 16 chromolithograph plates. Contemporary quarter morocco and marbled boards, slightly rubbed, top edges gilt, wrappers retained, a very good copy.

Octavo, three volumes 1557 pp. one handcoloured lithographic distribution map, six (one folded plain and five handcoloured) lithographed plates and some folded tables. Modern green half morocco and marbled boards, marbled edges, a very good set.