PIGEON

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Folder containing 'Pigeon Excerpt with Plates' from the 'Ornithology' of Francis Willughby [Willoughby], comprising three leaves of text and four plates from the original work of 1678. With printed label discussing Restoration 'English fanciers'.

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[Francis Willughby [Willoughby]; Ornithology, 1678; bird watching; pigeon fanciers]
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[London, 1678.]
£180.00
Pigeon Excerpt with Plates'

The extract from Willughby's 1678 comprise three folio leaves paginated 179-184, containing the text of 'CHAP. XIV. | Of Doves or Pigeons in general.'; with plates xxxiii, xxxiv, xxxv and xxxvi, with representations of twenty doves or pigeons. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Loosely inserted in a twentieth-century folder, half bound in brown marbled boards with green cloth corners and spine. Label on front ('Francis Willoughby | Ornithology 1678 | Pigeon Excerpt with Plates'.

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Autograph Letter Signed to 'G Remington Esq'.

Author: 
Charles Lewis Gruneisen
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27 September 1873; on letterhead '16, Surrey Street, | Strand. W.C. | London.'
£23.00

Journalist and musical critic (1806-79), Paris newspaper correspondent, 1839-44, who sent dispatches by pigeon. One page, 12mo. In poor condition: grubby and heavily stained. 'Dear Sir | I have been abroad or I would have replied to your note ere this. I will be at home until Noon next Monday. | Yours faithfully | [signed] | C J Gruneisen'.

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