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BULLER, SIR WALTER LAWRY - A History of the Birds of New Zealand
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BULLER, SIR WALTER LAWRY
A History of the Birds of New Zealand.
London: Published [for the Subscribers] by the Author 1888.
Volume I. lxxxiv, 250p, [6] p of reviews, illustrations, 24 colour plates. Volume II. xv, 359p, 26 plates [24 colour]. A clean set with very little foxing, a few light spots on the preliminary pages else clean, plates crisp and bright. Bound in a later half leather binding [not recent] with the original green cloth boards, gilt notornis on the front. A few scuff marks, binding intact and complete. An unusually clean, very tidy copy.
Provenance: The Deans family, pioneer farmers in Canterbury, New Zealand their Riccarton farm was the first permanent settlement by immigrants on the Canterbury Plains. The Deans brothers named the Christchurch River Avon after the stream on their grandfather's farm.
A History of the Birds of New Zealand.
London: Published [for the Subscribers] by the Author 1888.
Volume I. lxxxiv, 250p, [6] p of reviews, illustrations, 24 colour plates. Volume II. xv, 359p, 26 plates [24 colour]. A clean set with very little foxing, a few light spots on the preliminary pages else clean, plates crisp and bright. Bound in a later half leather binding [not recent] with the original green cloth boards, gilt notornis on the front. A few scuff marks, binding intact and complete. An unusually clean, very tidy copy.
Provenance: The Deans family, pioneer farmers in Canterbury, New Zealand their Riccarton farm was the first permanent settlement by immigrants on the Canterbury Plains. The Deans brothers named the Christchurch River Avon after the stream on their grandfather's farm.
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