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  • Seller image for A Natural History Of English Song-birds, Including Such Foreign Birds As Are Usually Brought Over.1779 Illustrated for sale by poor man's rare books (mrbooks) IOBA NJB

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    Published by Printed for T. Lowndes, No 77, in Fleet-Street, and S. Bladon, in Paternoster-Row,, London, 1778

    Seller: poor man's rare books (mrbooks) IOBA NJB, Vineland, NJ, U.S.A.

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    LEATHER. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Seventh Edition. Copper plates; [4], 107, [3] pages; ".and esteemed for their singing: Their proper Management, Diseases, and Cures. To which are added, figures of the Cock, Hen, and Egg of each species, exactly copied from nature, by Mr. Eleazar Albin, and curiously engraven on copper. With several improvements, under the article of Canary-Birds." Contains all 23 copper engraved plates but lacking frontispiece. However final leaf of advertisements is included. Bound in full contemporary sheep leather with morocco spine label. Royal crown watermark on chain laid paper. Nicely bound, hinges firmF first published in 1737 this is the 7th and purportedly most complete edition. First edition to illustrate the bird's eggs.