[JERDON, Thomas Claverhill]. The Birds of India: Being a Natural History of All the Birds Known to Inhabit Continental India: with Descriptions of the Species, Genera, Families, Tribes, and Orders, and a Brief Notice of Such Families as are Not Found in India, Making it a Manual of Ornithology, Specially Adapted for India. Calcutta: P.S. D'Rozario & Co., 1877.
Reprint. Two volumes bound in three. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Octavo, In-8°, (230 x 140 mm.), p. [xlix], 535, [lxxxvii]; [8], 439, [xvi]; [13], 440-876, [xxxviii]. Bound in contemporary half green morocco, spines gilt, t.e.g., fore edges uneven, marbled boards and endpapers, half-titles present in volumes 1 & 2, detailed explanation diagram of a bird in volume 1, footnotes, supplementary notes, appendix, index. Condition: VERY GOOD. Bindings tight and secure, the hinges intact, some light rubbing to boards and extremities. Contents largely very good with some light age tanning and just a few fox spots. Previous owner name stamped in ink to each volume. [Zimmer, p.336].
