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Auction #115 begins on 30 May 2024

Whymper (Charles)

EGYPTIAN BIRDS

For the most part seen in the Nile Valley

Published: Adam and Charles Black, London, 1909

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221 pages, colour frontispiece and 50 colour plates from paintings by the author, 11 line drawings in the text, fawn cloth decorated in red, green and yellow with Egyptian symbols, titled gilt on upper cover and spine, book plates on lightly browned endpapers, light foxing throughout the text and on the page edges, the plates printed on coated paper are bright and each is protected by a captioned tissue guard, top edge gilt, fore-edge uncut, plates are bright.

Inman 20. Issued in the A & C. Black twenty shilling series in an edition of 3000 copies.

  • Size: 8vo (230 x170mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
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  • Country: South Africa
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