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Price: US$230.88 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1909, Numbered Limited First Edition. First Edition. Limited to 550 copies, this is number 364. Folio size. Publisher's gilt-stamped red cloth, top edges gilt. Incomplete with 6 (ONLY) of 18 chromolithographic plates, 17 photogravures, and 1 other illustration, all with tissue guards. The volume is edge rubbed, has bumped corners and spine ends, with fraying and splits on the spine joints but with the spine still secure, spine top and tail frayed, and the spine lettering is a bit faded. xi, [i], 142pp. Approximately 16 inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine poor condition gilt titles, worn faded and torn to the outer cloth. Joints poor condition split to the outer cloth, structurally intact behind this, rubbed and worn, faded in colour. Corners good condition bumped and worn. Boards good condition worn and darkened cloth, gilt titles to the front board. Page edges good condition top edge gilt, others tanned. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition sound. Paste downs good condition tanned and foxed. End papers good condition tanned and foxed. Title good condition gently tanned, lacking the frontispiece. Pages good condition gently tanned throughout. Binding fair condition. See photos Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1909 Binding: Hardback
Seller: Louis88Books (Members of the PBFA), Andover, United Kingdom
J G Millais. The Natural History of British Game Birds. London Longmans, Green 1909, 1909.
Price: US$384.80 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A limited edition of 550 copies, this is copy no 529. Finely bound in two tone maroon and tan cloth, with gilt lettering to front and spine. Spine is worn and frayed top and bottom, with mottled markings. Boards are rubbed with small stains to front and rear. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Very fine reproductions with eighteen coloured plates, seventeen photogravures and two other illustrations by Thorburn and Millais. This book is very heavy, please enquire about postage.
Seller: Reader's Books, Petworth, United Kingdom
Price: US$795.26 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A sumptuous production in the tradition of the Victorian plate book with magnificent illustrations by Thorburn and Millais, beautifully produced and printed on thick paper, each plate with a tissue guard. Limited edition of 550 copies of which this is no. 251. Pp. xi, 142; complete with 18 colour plates (printed by Albert Frisch - Berlin) and 17 photogravures (b/w plates printed by W. L. Colls, Barnes) all by Thorburn and Millais and two b/w photographs by T. Tait. Publisher's two-tone red cloth, very good with a little general wear and a little rubbing to edges, lightly marked, spine somewhat faded as usual. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions, more or less unmarked (light foxing to pages adjacent to photographic plate as usual). A very good bright copy. Size: Folio
Seller: LOE BOOKS, Launceston, United Kingdom
MILLAIS J.G.. The Natural History Of The British Game Birds. Longmans Green and Co, 1909.
Price: US$958.80 + shipping
Description: xi 142 pages, advert leaf, TEG, large folio, illus with 18 coloured plates, 17 photogravures, and 2 other illus by Archibald Thorburn and J.G.Millais, plus 1 other plate with 2 b/w photograph illustrations all plates are clean and the contents free of foxing. This copy numbered 147 of a limitation of 550 copies, bound in the publishers two tone cloth with gilt title to the upper cover. Rubbing to the head of spine and chipping to the bottom of the spine, few faint marks to the spine edge. The book covers the natural history, habits, habitat, and shooting of game birds. Schwerdt notes "A fine publication, one of the few modern shooting books which has considerably risen in value probably on account of the plates after Thorburn, printed by Albert Frisch of Berlin which are exceptionally beautiful. Schwerdt Vol 2 27/28. Czech 453
Seller: Hereward Books, Ely, CAMBR, United Kingdom
MILLAIS J.G.. The natural history of british game birds.. Longmans, Green and Co.,, London,, 1909.
Price: US$967.05 + shipping
Description: In-folio (cm. 41), pp. xi (1) 142 + (2) di pubblicità edit. Con 36 tavole f.t. di cui 18 a colori (ciascuna con velina protettiva). Leg. edit. in tela con titoli in oro a piatto anteriore e dorso. Taglio di testa dorato. Esemplare genuino ed in ottimo stato di conservazione. Bella monografia edita in soli 550 esemplari numerati a mano (ns. n. 533). Cfr. Schwerdt. "A fine publication, one of the few modern shooting books which has considerably risen in value probably on account of the plates after Thorburn, printed by Albert Frisch of Berlin which are exceptionally beautiful".
Seller: Studio Bibliografico Benacense, riva del garda, Italy
Price: US$989.03 + shipping
Description: 404x305 mm. With coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, 17 fine coloured plates (all original tissue guards present), 17 fine plates in photogravure (all original tissue guards present) and 2 illustrations in the text by Archibald Thorburn and J.G. Millais. Publisher's original burgundy cloth, gilt (worn and stained). Copy 34 of 550. A very nice copy. First Edition. Mullens & Swann, p. 406; Tate, p. 235.
Seller: Libreria Alberto Govi di F. Govi Sas, Modena, Italy
Millais, J. G.. The Natural History of British Game Birds. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1909.
Price: US$1026.14 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited edition, no.339/550. Folio. xi, 142pp. Complete with 18 colour plates, 17 photogravures and 2 other illustrations by Thorburn and Millais. Re-bound in a modern green half morocco gilt, over green cloth. Spine a little faded with a few minor marks. New end papers. Contents clean and bright. Overall a 'Near Fine' copy. Heavy - additional shipping required.
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
Millais, J. G.. The Natural History of British Game Birds. Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1909.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited to 550 copies, this is #48. Folio. Publisher's gilt-stamped red cloth, top edges gilt. Complete with 18 chromolithographic plates, 17 photogravures, and 2 other illustrations, all with tissue guards. The volume is edge rubbed, has bumped corners and spine ends, with a bit of fraying on the spine tail, the spine has some soiling, and the spine lettering is a bit faded. A small bookseller's label is affixed to the base of the rear pastedown, a bookplate of noted sports collector Edward Sands Litchfield is attached to the front pastedown, and the endpapers are lightly toned. This is an oversized volume. International orders will require additional postage.
Seller: Trilby & Co. Books, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2116.41 + shipping
Description: Folio, First Edition, with coloured frontispiece (original tisue guard present), title in red and black, 17 fine coloured plates (all original tissue guards present), 17 fine plates in photogravure (all original tissue guards present) and 2 illustrations in the text; original burgundy cloth, upper board ruled and lettered in gilt, red buckram back lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, backstrip lightly sunned else a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 550 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 494). A splendid copy of this magnificent example of Millais's bird artistry. SETS IN THE PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL BINDING IN THIS CONDITION ARE RARE. Mullens & Swann, p.406; Tate, p.235.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom