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Condizione: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original pea green cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered in black. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains (xiv), 942 pp with 12 colour plates and over 900 monochrome illustrations in the text. Foxing to the end papers, ink name and address to the front paste down. Very Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with small nicks across the top edge of the front cover, one small chip to the foot of the spine, not price clipped, 21/-. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Heavy volume weighing 2 kg, extra postage and insurance will be requested over and above our default setting for destinations outside of the UK. Member of the P.B.F.A. NATURAL HISTORY.…

GREEN CLOTH. Condizione: NEAR FINE-. 3 SIGNED LETTERS LAID/TIPPED IN FROM EDMUND HENRY EITEL ON BEHALF OF HIS INVALID UNCLE, JAMES WITCOMB RILEY, TO W.W. LIVENGOOD, AUTHOR AND EDITOR/VICE PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY DATED 1911, 1912, 1913. CLEAN CLEAR BRIGHT GOLD GILT LETTERING ON THE SPINE AND A VERY BRIGHT PRESSED GOLD GILT BUMBLE BEE ON THE FRONT COVER. A CLEAN STRONG TIGHT SET. Size: OCTAVO. SIGNED BY THE EDITOR.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good condition. First Editions. London: West, Newman & Co. / Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co 18 volume set, a broken run 1897 - 1937, Volumes 30 - 70. SEE PHOTOS. Mostly Good to Very Good condition. Moderate cover soil/wear. NOT library discards. NO owner's name or bookplate except in Vol. 41 (ink stamp of Natural History Society, Bournemouth) and Vol. 69 (bookplate of Frederick William Smith). Occasional notes on the front pastedown endpaper of a few volumes. Pages are otherwise unmarked and generally quite clean Little or NO foxing in nearly all volumes. The lot of 18 volumes offered here includes: Volume 30 (1897), 34 (1901), 38 (1905), 40 (1907), 41 (1908), 42 (1909), 43 (1910), 44 (1911), 45 (1912), 46 (1913), 47 (1914), 48 (1915), 49 (1916), 50 (1917), 51 (1918), 54 (1921), 69 (1936), 70 (1937). All 18 volumes have illustrations in the text, plates, a List of contributors, and General Subject Index. Most also have a "Special Index" with several new genera, species marked with an asterisk. The set is bound in gilt-stamped red cloth -- not entirely uniform -- several have a gilt-stamped butterfly (or moth) on the front cover -- others don't. SEE PHOTOS (which show 20 vols, but 2 are no longer included). This heavy 18 book set will require SUBSTANTIAL extra postage for International or priority shipments, but for media mail we ship all 18 volumes for the cost of 1. . First Editions. Hardcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 18 volumes. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. NOT a library discard (illustratore).…