Beschreibung:

Hume (Allan O.). The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds. Second edition, edited by Eugene William Oates, 3 volumes, R. H. Porter, 1889-90, 12 mounted woodburytype portrait plates, free endpapers browned, light spotting to a few mounts, almost entirely unopened, original brown cloth, 8vo, together with: Baker (E. C. Stuart . The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma, 8 volumes, 2nd edition, Taylor and Francis, 1922-30, 39 plates (mainly colour), folding map (closed tear), ownership inscriptions to front free endpapers, original maroon cloth, volumes 2 and 5 spines sunned, 8vo, and ibid., The Nidification of the Birds of the India Empire, 4 volumes, 1st edition, Taylor and Francis, 1932-5, 28 halftone plates, original maroon cloth, spines slightly sunned, 8vo (Qty: 15) Wood p. 394 (Hume), Zimmer pp. 314-15 (Hume), 37 (Baker, Fauna, volumes 1-2 only). The first edition of Hume's work, published at Calcutta in 1873-5, was announced in the title purely as a 'rough draft'.