£70
Lack (David), Swifts in a Tower, first edition, London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1956, half-title, original pictorial dustjacket designed by Ralph Thompson, the back of which is lightly foxed in places, blue cloth, 8vo, Association Copy, Harting (J.E.), A Handbook of British Birds, signed by and dedicated from the author to Auberon Herbert MP, London: John Van Voorst, 1872, original cloth, slight losses to sunned spine, uncut, 8vo, further works on natural history, wildlife and fens, others, 18th c and later, including [Goodall (W.)], The Adventures of Capt. Greenland, volume III only, sole edition, London: R. Baldwin, 1752, unexamined, contemporary calf, 8vo, (10)
Provenance: 2nd) To the Hon. Auberon Herbert MP./With the author's compliments/A souvenir of ***/of 1873, ink MS inscription to verso of ffep. A year earlier Herbert played a leading role in the passing of the Protection of Wild Birds Act 1872; no doubt Harting, a leading ornithologist and natural historian, was grateful to the Liberal libertarian MP for his efforts, and this book may have been a token of that thanks.
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