Birds of Arabia Dark green half morocco

Dark green half morocco

25 inches (platemark) on sheet 19 x 13

In the upper right is a decorative cartouche showing the fortified city of Baka (then known as Tereki) in Dagestan

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and published a detailed account of his collections in Proceedings of the Zoological Society in 1882

Birds of Arabia Dark green half moroccoPp. (2), xiii, 624; 19 tipped in fine color plates by G. Lodge, R. Thorburn, and D. M. Reid Henry, 9 tipped in black and white photographic plates, 53 text figures, 36 maps (1 is tinted and folding). Dark green half morocco, spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt in one compartment and with alternating gilt decorations (falcons and crossed swords), in the other compartments, top page edge gilt, hand made marbled endpapers, sm folio (13. 5 x 9