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Turnbull (William). The Birds of East Lothian and a Portion of the Adjoining Counties, 1st UK edition, Glasgow: printed for private circulation, 1867, hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece by Edwin Sheppard lithographic vignettes in text, half-title with clipped catalogue descriptions mounted recto and colour lithograph of the Bass Rock by Reginald Phillimore verso, ink-stamp of ornithologist O. V. Aplin (1858-1940) to initial blank, 2 related letters laid in, bookplate, 20th-century red quarter morocco, 8vo (25 x 15.5 cm), together with: Sterland (W. J., & J. Whitaker), Descriptive List of the Birds of Nottinghamshire, 1st edition, Mansfield: William Gouk, 1879, authorial presentation inscription to front pastedown, original cloth, 8vo, Davis (W. J.), The Birds of the Dartford District, 1st edition, Dartford: J. & W. Davis, 1904, 9 halftone plates, old library stamps, original cloth, call number gilt to spine, printed library notice to front board, 8vo, Aldridge (W.), A Gossip on the Wild Birds of Norwood and Crystal Palace District, 1st edition, Upper Norwood: Burdett and Co., 1885, wood-engraved frontispiece, original blue cloth gilt, a bright copy, 8vo, Nicholl (Digby S. W.), Notes on the Rarer Birds of Glamorganshire, reprinted from 'The Zoologist', 1st edition in book-form, London: West, Newman and Co., 1889, autograph letter signed from ornithologist J. E. Harting (1841-1928) tipped to front free endpaper, original green cloth, 8vo, and 17 others, mainly local avifaunas, including provincial imprints, 8vo (Qty: 22) Mullens & Swann pp. 595 (Turnbull), 559 (Sterland & Whitaker), 165 (Davis, 'not seen'), 10 (Aldridge), 448 (Nicholl, 'not seen'). Turnbull's work is one of 150 copies; OCLC traces eight copies only of Sterland and Whitaker's work, one for Davis's (Natural History for Museum), and nine for Aldridge's.