DW101-176 Part One.qxp_Layout 1 25/08/2017 15:35 Page 19
51 Gould (John). The Birds of Australia, 8 volumes (including supplement), facsimile edition, Melbourne, 1972 - 1975, numerous colour plates, publisher’s imitation leather gilt, folio (8)
£300-500
52 Guerin (F.-E., editor). Dictionnaire Pittoresque d’histoire naturelle et des phénomènes de la nature..., Plates only, Paris, 91833-34], two volumes containing 204 hand-coloured plates of insects, fish, reptiles, etc., without titles or text, tissue guard to each plate, occasional spotting, contemporary half calf gilt, rubbed and worn at extremities, 8vo (2)
£200-300
Lot 51
53 Hachisuka (Masauji). The Dodo and Kindred Birds or the Extinct Birds of the Mascarene Islands, Witherby, 1953, colour and monochrome plates and illustrations, top edge gilt, original blue buckram gilt, dust jacket, one or two closed tears, slight soiling, 4to Limited edition of 485, this copy unumbered. (1)
£150-200
54 Halford (Frederic M.). Dry-Fly Fishing in Theort and Practice, Centenary Edition 1889-1989, Witherby, 1989, illustrations, all edges gilt, original burgundy morocco, slipcase, 8vo, limited edition 1/50, together with A Salmon Fisher’s Odyssey, by John AshleyCooper, Witherby, 1982, colour and half-tone illustrations, all edges gilt, original blue half morocco gilt, 4to, limited signed edition 6/20, plus Sea Trout Fishing, by Hugh Falkus, Witherby, 2nd edition, 1976, illustrations, top edge gilt, original green half morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine a little faded, 8vo, limited signed edition 2/35, with seven others including F.G. Aflalo’s A Fisherman’s Summer in Canada, 1911 and Lt.-Col. W. Keith Rollo’s The Art of Fly Fishing, 2nd edition, 1933 (11)
Lot 52 19
£200-300