A General History of Birds, 11 volumes, complete with index, bound in 5 thick volumes The image is of Westermann's

The image is of Westermann's Cassowary

Witmer on front blank endpaper of both text volumes

This work is attractively bound in custom textured blue cloth

Publisher Koudansha Publisher Place Tokyo Date Published 1981 Date Published Estimated No Edition First Number of Volumes Reprint No Condition Fine Condition Description Fine copy in the original fine slipcase still in the publisher's pictorial shipping box

A General History of Birds, 11 volumes, complete with index, bound in 5 thick volumes The image is of Westermann'sPp. xxxii, 375, (1); (2), 340; (4), 416; (4), 362, (1); (2), 350, (1); (4), 416; (2), 362, (1); (2), 376, (1); (2), 391, (1); (2), 433, (1); 456; index: (2), 17, (134); with 193 hand colored copperplate engravings. Early one half calf leather, spine lettered in gilt and with gilt panel lines and other gilt decorations, over original marbled boards with matching marbled endpapers, most volumes with tissue guards present, thick 4to (10 3 4 x 8 1 2