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Shelley, George Ernest A Handbook to the Birds of Egypt, 1st edition, John van Voorst, 1872, hand-coloured lithographic plates after J. G. Keulemans, ghost of a near-contemporary ownership inscription to title page (the ink obliterated), modern green half morocco, gilt spine, 8vo (24.4 x 14.5 cm), together with: Friedmann (Herbert), Birds Collected by the Childs Frick Expedition to Ethiopia and Kenya Colony, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1930-7, colour frontispieces, halftone plates, leaves unopened, edges untrimmed, modern green half morocco, 8vo (24.5 x 14.5 cm), Allouse (Bashir E.), The Avifauna of Iraq, 1st edition, Baghdad: al-Tafayyudh Press, 1953,folding map of Iraq, original wrappers bound in, modern green half morocco, 8vo (24 x 16 cm), Bannerman (David A.), The Birds of Southern Nigeria ... extrait de la Revue zoologique africaine, publiée sous la direction du Dr H. Schouteden, Vol. IX, Fasc. 3, [-Vol. X, Fasc. 2], Brussels: Marcel Hayez, 1921-2, 2 offprints in 1 volume, original front wrapper to volume 1 bound in, 22 pp. manuscript index bound in to rear, browning, modern maroon half morocco, large 8vo (27 x 17.5 cm), and Horsbrugh (Boyd Robert), The Gamebirds and Waterfowl of South Africa, with colour plates by Claude Gibney Davies, facsimile edition, Johannesburg: Winchester Press, 1978, original green half moroocco, spine slightly sunned, slipcase, 4to, number 77 of 100 copies only of the 'de luxe Collector's' issue, from a total edition of 526 copies Shelley: Anker 469; Nissen IVB 872; Wood p. 566 ('this excellent work'); Zimmer p. 588. (Qty: 6)