Chenu´s Ornithology for hunters 1860

CHENU, J. C. Ornithologie du chasseur. Histoire naturelle - moeurs - habitudes - chasses des oiseaux de plaine, de bois et de marais. Paris (J. Rotschild, Libraire de la Société Botanique de France) 1870.

Small 4:o (about 263x172 mm.). (8), (1)-168, (4, last blank) pp. Title printed in red and black with woodengraved vignette, 50 coloured plates in chromo-typography (all, some minor foxing).

Contemporary red half leather, somewhat worn, somewhat spotted boards, gilt edges, gilt spine in five compartments. Text partly foxed as usual. First edition.

Nissen IVB 192.

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