Birds of Paradise -- The Text
by Sharpe, Richard Bowdler
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket - As Published
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
UK: Folio Society, 2011. Bound in green cloth stamped in silver with title on label to front panel. Subtitled, "monograph of the Paradiseidae, or, Birds of paradise, and Ptilonorhynchidae, or Bower-birds photo". 288 pp. The companion piece to the folio-sized illustrated book. An "as new" copy of the first Folio Society printing. Introduction by Errol Fuller. Exceedingly rare -- only one copy on OCLC/Worldcat. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket - As Published.
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- Bookseller
- abookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7002254
- Title
- Birds of Paradise -- The Text
- Author
- Sharpe, Richard Bowdler
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket - As Published
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Folio Society
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 2011
- Keywords
- Birds
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History;
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