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[Ornithology] VON WRIGHT, Magnus, Wilhelm & Ferdinand Svenska fåglar efter naturen och på sten ritade. Med text af Professor Einar Lönnberg. Andra upplagan. Stockholm, Förlaget Svenska Fåglar, 1927-3 vol., folio. Publisher's marbled sheep, gilt rules and ornam. (eagle device) on covers (some scratches on covers, sl. discol.), gilt orn. spines on 5 raised bands (somewhat rubbed), marbled edges, marbled endpapers. Standard work on Scandinavian ornithology. Ill. (complete) with very fine chromolithogr. plates representing birds of Sweden (and b/w photogr. fig. in text (eggs and nests). The work offers fine reproductions of the original plates of the 1828-edition, enlarged with lithographs after paintings of the von Wright brothers and the Swedish artist Bror Hallberg. Ref. Nissen - Anker - COPAC.