Lot 386 , A watercolour illustration, Little Stint and a bound collection of The Ibis Quarterly Journal of Ornithology, 1869-1898

A watercolour illustration, 'Little Stint' and a bound collection of The Ibis Quarterly Journal of Ornithology, 1869-1898, comprising: New Series, Vols V-VI, 1869-70, ed. Newton; Series 3, Vols I-VI, 1871-76, ed. Salvin; Series 4, Vols I-VI, 1877-82, ed. Salvin (all in gilt-tooled blue half-calf with marbled boards, except for Vol VI in publishers' pictorial red cloth); Series 5, Vols I-VI, 1883-88, ed. Sclater; Series 6, Vols I-VI, 1889-94, ed. Sclater and Series 7, Vols I-IV, 1895-98, ed. Sclater & Saunders (all in gilt-tooled red half-calf with marbled boards), numerous coloured lithographic plates (early ones hand-coloured), ex-libris Claud Buchanan Ticehurst FRGS (1881-1941), Surgeon and British Ornithologist (Series 7, Vol IV bookplate stuck to rear endpaper in error); together with the 1883 'List of British Birds Compiled by a Committee of the British Ornithologists Union' (bound to match) and Witherby's Handbook of British Birds, Vols III-IV, 5th imp, d.w.s. (33 vols)
Estimate £400-600


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Sold for £1,200