Beschreibung:

Montagu (George). Ornithological Dictionary; or, Alphabetical Synopsis of British Birds, 2 volumes, London: J White, 1802, hand-coloured frontispiece to volume 1, light spotting, light offsetting, contemporary and later notations to pastedowns and endpapers, bookseller's ticket to front pastedown of volume 1, residue of bookplates to front pastedowns, wear with loss to front pastedown of volume 2, rear hinges tender, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, vellum corners, portion of toning to inner margin of boards, joints cracked and worn, portion of title label lacking to volume 1, fore-edge untrimmed, 8vo, together with: Supplement to the Ornithological Dictionary, or Synopsis of British Birds, Exeter: S Woolmer, 1813, frontispiece, 23 engraved plates, errata leaf to rear, spotting, small stamp to front free endpaper, contemporary ownership inscription to front blank, contemporary calf gilt, lacking title label to spine, boards bordered in gilt, gilt cartouches to spine compartments, raised bands, joints worn and cracked to extremities, boards faintly marked, 8vo, with Saunders (Howard). An Illustrated Manual of British Birds, London: Gurney and Jackson, 1889, T.J. Cobden- Sanderson's ownership inscription to half-title, 3 double-page colour maps, errata slip, bookplate to front pastedown, sporadic spotting, one leaves with in-text illustrations cut out, edges spotted, contemporary half buckram, extremities slightly rubbed, 8vo with another copy of the Supplement and a 2 volume set of Mudie's The Feathered Tribes of the British Islands (1834-35) and two other ornithological works (Qty: 9)