Harmonia ruralis, or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds : volume the first [-the second] : illustrated with figures the size of life, of the birds, male and female, in their most natural attitudes, their nests and eggs, food, favourite plants, shrubs, trees, &c. &c. : faithfully drawn, engraved, and coloured after nature, by the author, on forty copper plates / by James Bolton.
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Harmonia ruralis, or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds : volume the first [-the second] : illustrated with figures the size of life, of the birds, male and female, in their most natural attitudes, their nests and eggs, food, favourite plants, shrubs, trees, &c. &c. : faithfully drawn, engraved, and coloured after nature, by the author, on forty copper plates / by James Bolton.
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Essay towards a natural history of British song birds
Printed [by Nicolson and Co.] for and sold by the author, at Stannary, near Halifax, sold also by B. and J. White, in London, and may be had of all other booksellers,
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Armorial bookplate: Edward Akroyd. Plates are hand colored. Bibliography: leaf 82. Paged continuously: v. 1: viii, 40 leaves, [40] leaves of plates; v. 2: [3] leaves, l. 41-82, [40] leaves of plates. Printer's name from colophon. With a list of errata to vol.2 pasted to the final leaf which contains errata from the first volume.
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ESTC (RLIN) T84359 and Yale. Ornithological books, p. 34