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Turnbull (William P.). The Birds of East Lothian and a Portion of the Adjoining Counties, 1st UK edition, large-paper issue, Glasgow: printed for private circulation, 1867, 48 pp., hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece, 13 similar vignettes, spotting to half-title and title-page, faint finger-mark to p. 37, bookplate of American ornithologist John Eliot Thayer (1862-1933), 20th-century red half calf, 4to (32 x 24.8 cm), together with: McWilliam (John Morrell), The Birds of the Firth of Clyde, including Ayrshire, Renfewshire, Buteshire, Dumbartonshire and South Argyllshire, 1st edition, deluxe issue, H. F. & G. Witherby Ltd., 1936, 10 halftone plates mounted on thick black paper, map, inscribed by the author 'Signed for Walter Duncan by J. M. McWilliam, April, 1936' on front free endpaper, autograph letter signed from the author to Duncan in envelope (with photocopies of 3 further letters), top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original vellum gilt, 8vo, MacGillivray (William), The Natural History of Dee Side and Braemar, 1st edition, printed for private circulation [by Queen Victoria], 1855, wood-engraved frontispiece, similar vignettes, 2 folding maps, spotting, engraved presentation plate from Prince Albert inscribed to Cornish naturalist Jonathan Couch (1789-1870), family ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper, bookplate inscribed Thomas Q. Couch, laid-in bookseller's typescript catalogue note, original cloth, rebacked, 8vo, and Gray (Robert, & Thomas Anderson), The Birds of Ayrshire and Wigtownshire, 1st edition, Glasgow: Thomas Murray and Son, 1869, tinted lithographic frontispiece, modern red half morocco, 8vo (24.8 x 15.2 cm) (Qty: 4) Freeman 3761 (Turnbull), 2403 (MacGillivray), 1439 (Gray & Anderson); Mullens & Swann pp. 595 (Turnbull), 371-2 (MacGillivray), 251 (Gray & Anderson); Wood pp. 604 (Turnbull), 446 (MacGillivray). Turnbull's work is one of 50 copies in quarto, of which 'all but twelve [were] destroyed by fire' (Mullens and Swann); there were also 150 octavo copies. A pencilled note in McWilliams's work states that there were ten deluxe copies in vellum; library records refer to an issue of 40 copies for private distribution. MacGillivray's work was completed shortly before his death, after which the manuscript was purchased by Queen Victoria and 'printed at her command' (Wood); this copy was presented to Cornish naturalist Jonathan Couch (1789-1870), grandfather of Arthur Quiller-Couch.