Title: The Birds of California: A Complete, Scientific and Popular Account of the 580 Species and Subspecies of Birds Found in the State Author: Dawson, William Leon Place: San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco Publisher: South Moulton Co. Date: 1923 Description: 4 volumes. Illustrated with 30 photogravure plates, 120 duotone plates, plus numerous illustrations in the text from photographs by Donald R. Dickey, Wright M. Pierce, Wm. L. Finley & the author; plus 44 drawings in the text & 110 color plates from paintings by Major Allan Brooks & others. 12¼x9½, original polished half green calf and cloth, ruled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. One of 100 sets of the Large Paper Edition, De Luxe, this copy undesignated. First "Santa Barbara Edition, De Luxe." Signed by Dawson on the limitation page. Includes a 16-page booklet Bibliographical Notes on Dawson's Birds of California with eight illustrations by W. Lee Chambers (reprinted from The Condor, Vol. XLI, No. 6, Nov-Dec., 1939, pp. 231-243), laid in. Nissen 225; Ayer, Ornithological Library, p. 162. Lot Amendments Condition: Spines slightly sunned, rubbing to joints and edges of leather, other light rubs, occasional small stains; a few of the hinges a bit tender, some offsetting to endpapers and preliminary leaves; text and illustrations intact; a very good or better set. Item number: 172362
Title: The Birds of California: A Complete, Scientific and Popular Account of the 580 Species and Subspecies of Birds Found in the State Author: Dawson, William Leon Place: San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco Publisher: South Moulton Co. Date: 1923 Description: 4 volumes. Illustrated with 30 photogravure plates, 120 duotone plates, plus numerous illustrations in the text from photographs by Donald R. Dickey, Wright M. Pierce, Wm. L. Finley & the author; plus 44 drawings in the text & 110 color plates from paintings by Major Allan Brooks & others. 12¼x9½, original polished half green calf and cloth, ruled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. One of 100 sets of the Large Paper Edition, De Luxe, this copy undesignated. First "Santa Barbara Edition, De Luxe." Signed by Dawson on the limitation page. Includes a 16-page booklet Bibliographical Notes on Dawson's Birds of California with eight illustrations by W. Lee Chambers (reprinted from The Condor, Vol. XLI, No. 6, Nov-Dec., 1939, pp. 231-243), laid in. Nissen 225; Ayer, Ornithological Library, p. 162. Lot Amendments Condition: Spines slightly sunned, rubbing to joints and edges of leather, other light rubs, occasional small stains; a few of the hinges a bit tender, some offsetting to endpapers and preliminary leaves; text and illustrations intact; a very good or better set. Item number: 172362
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