Live Auction 5428Travel, Science & Natural History
Christie’s roundel
Lot 500

HUME, Allan Octavian (1829-1812) and Charles Henry Tilson Marshall. The Game Birds of India, Burmah and Ceylon. [Calcutta: for the Author, 1878-81]. 3 volumes, 8°. 144 chromolithographed plates after Davenport, Strutt and others (occasional very light foxing, mainly in the text). Original green pictorial cloth gilt. Provenance: Frederick Ducane Godman (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Nissen IVB 463; Zimmer I, 314. (3)

Closed23 April 2008

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HUME, Allan Octavian (1829-1812) and Charles Henry Tilson Marshall. The Game Birds of India, Burmah and Ceylon. [Calcutta: for the Author, 1878-81]. 3 volumes, 8°. 144 chromolithographed plates after Davenport, Strutt and others (occasional very light foxing, mainly in the text). Original green pictorial cloth gilt. Provenance: Frederick Ducane Godman (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Nissen IVB 463; Zimmer I, 314. (3)