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AKERMAN, John Yonge. Spring-Tide; or, the Angler and his Friends, London: Richard Bentley, 1850. 8°, engraved frontispiece and 6 wood-engraved vignettes (occasional light spotting), original green pictorial cloth gilt (stain on lower cover, spine discoloured, head and foot of spine chipped). FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed "Jonathan Bagster, Esq. with the author's friendly regards, J. Y. Akerman, Sep. 22 1850." Westwood & Satchell Bibliotheca Piscatoria p.3.
MORRIS, Francis Orpen. A History of British Birds, London: Bell and Daldy, 1870. Volumes I - III, V - VI only (of 6), 4°, hand-coloured wood-engraved plates (occasional spotting), original green pictorial cloth gilt (lightly rubbed).
With 5 other books including William Houghton's Sea-Side Walks of a Naturalist (London, 1878, third edition) and Francis Smith's The Canary (London, 1878, fifth edition). (10)
MORRIS, Francis Orpen. A History of British Birds, London: Bell and Daldy, 1870. Volumes I - III, V - VI only (of 6), 4°, hand-coloured wood-engraved plates (occasional spotting), original green pictorial cloth gilt (lightly rubbed).
With 5 other books including William Houghton's Sea-Side Walks of a Naturalist (London, 1878, third edition) and Francis Smith's The Canary (London, 1878, fifth edition). (10)