Lot No: 9215

James Edmund Harting, six mainly association copy titles, comprising 'The Birds of Middlesex', London, 1866, 1st edition, tinted litho frontis after J. Wolf, inscribed presentation copy ''Miss Anderson with the author's compliments'' to half title, original cloth gilt; 'British Animals Extinct within Historic times, with some account of British Wild White Cattle', London, 1880, 1st edition, pencil ownership signature of John R.B. Masefield, fellow Ornithologist, to title page, original pictorial cloth gilt; 'A Handbook of British Birds', London, 1872, 1st edition, inscribed and signed in initials from Harting to the Naturalist Maurice Charles Hilton Bird, and dated March 1881 on FFEP, original cloth gilt; 'Our Summer Migrants, an account of the Migratory Birds which pass the Summer in the British Islands', 1875, original pictorial cloth gilt (VGC), all edges gilt; E.H. Rodd & J.E. Harting: 'The Birds of Cornwall and The Scilly Islands', London, 1880, 1st edition, monogram in pencil of F.C.R. Jourdain (Ornitholigist and author) to front pastedown, 15pp leaflet 'A Short Visit to the Scilly Islands', 1905, loosely inserted, original cloth gilt; Witchell & Bishop Strugnell: 'The Fauna and Flora of Gloucestershire', 1892, 1st edition, the copy of J.E. Harting with several marginal notes by him and his bookplate to front pastedown, original quarter leather gilt (6)

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