The Indian Ducks and Their Allies
by Stuart Baker, E.C
- Used
- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Farningham, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Bombay Natural History Society, 1908 292 pages with thirty exceptional colour chromolith plates. The edition limited to 1200 copies after which the plates were erased. Texts originally written for the Bombay Natural History Society Journal. Rebound to match the original in quarter green goatskin with raised bands, blind and gold finishing and with green reliance sidings and new end papers. A handsome and imposing volume.
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- Bookseller
- Wadard Books PBFA (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8557
- Title
- The Indian Ducks and Their Allies
- Author
- Stuart Baker, E.C
- Illustrator
- H.Gronvold, G.E.Lodge, J.G.Keulemans.
- Format/Binding
- Quarter Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Bombay Natural History Society
- Date Published
- 1908
- Size
- 280x190mm
- Keywords
- Ornithology. India. Order Chenomorphae. Chromolith Plates.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Wadard Books PBFA
Biblio member since 2014
Farningham, Kent
About Wadard Books PBFA
The shop of Wadard Books is located in a listed 17th century timber framed building in the historic Kentish village of Farningham. The business is named after Wadard, one of Farningham's Domesday landlords, a henchman of Bishop Odo and featured on the Bayeaux tapestry.
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- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Goatskin
- Goatskin, leather made from goat, is durable and easy to dye. The original and finest examples of Morocco binding are goatskin....
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