Thorburn´s ornithology 1923
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THORBURN´S ORNITHOLOGY 1923. THORBURN, ARCHIBALD. Game Birds and Wild-Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland. Written and Illustrated by A. Thorburn, F. Z. S. Containing Thirty Plates in Colour, Showing Fifty-Eight Species. London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1923.
Folio. 373 x 270 mm. VIII, 79 pp. 30 colour plates. Publisher´s red cloth with gilt spine title, gilt-framed front board and gilt top edge.
Provenance: Nils G. Ahlin (Ulriksfors, Sweden, owned the largest private book collection in north of Sweden, about 6000 volumes).
Erik Hallqvist, Östersund (born 1887, the grandfather of the current owner), had a bookshop since 1907. He bought Ahlin´s collection in 1942 and was interviewed in Östersund-Posten on January 28: "The public may have an idea of the size of the collection, when I mention that I needed 14 fully loaded taxis to get the books home".
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Auktionsnummer:
619177
Datum:
2019-03-11