Description:
Vennor, Henry G. (1840-1884) Our Birds of Prey, or the Eagles, Hawks, and Owls. Montreal: Dawson Brother, 1876.
First edition, large quarto, illustrated with thirty albumen photographic plates by Willam Notman of stuffed birds, each mounted on heavy card, bound in publisher's orangish-brown pebbled cloth stamped in black, with a gilt figure of an owl with a mouse in its beak on the front board, gilt lettering to spine, the plates slightly wavy on their mounts, with some foxing, some fading of the photographs, title a little dusty, 10 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.
Estimate $400-600
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