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Total number of records: 7

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English Literature	7
Brotherton Collection	2

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Subject	Count
birds	6
art	1
atlases	1
behavior, animal	1
birds in art	1
book auctions	1
books	1
botanical literature	1
children's poetry, english	1
fine bindings	1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Rennie, James (1787-1867)	3
Boyd, Julia	1
Gosse, Philip Henry (1810-1888)	1
Heath-Stubbs, John (1918-2006)	1
Murdoch, Iris (1919-1999)	1
Powderham Castle (England)	1
Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain)	1
Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). Committee of General Literature and Education	1
Society For the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge	1
Sotheby & Co. (London, England)	1

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From 1800	4
From 1900	3

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Up to 1899	4
Up to 1999	3

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The architecture of birds

Rennie, James (1787-1867); Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

1831

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The faculties of birds

Rennie, James (1787-1867)

1835

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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A year of birds

Murdoch, Iris (1919-1999); Stone, Reynolds (1909-1979)

1984

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The domestic habits of birds

Rennie, James (1787-1867)

1846

First appeared in The library of Entertaining Knowledge.

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Natural history

Gosse, Philip Henry (1810-1888); Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). Committee of General Literature and Education

1849

'Published under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge'.

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A parliament of birds

Heath-Stubbs, John (1918-2006)

1975

Poems.

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Catalogue of valuable printed books : comprising a selected portion of the library at Powderham Castle, Devonshire; early English books and early science... many with the Courtenay arms, the property of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Devon, The historie of the damnable life and deserved death of Doctor John Faustus, 1622, the only copy known of this edition: not in STC, the property of Douglas Davidson, Esq.; the first (suppressed) edition of Alice's adventures in Wonderland, 1865; a group of Norman Douglas first editions with inscriptions by the author; early atlases and maps ... sporting and botanical books with coloured plates and a series of water-colour drawings of birds, a Baskerville Prayer book bound by Edward[s] of Halifax and a fine German Renaissance gilt binding for Johann Fugger, the property of the Rt. Hon. Lord Cotteloe ... the Rt. Hon. Sir Percy Loraine ... R.O. Whalley ... Brigadier J.E. Stirling ... early Italian literature and books on the fine arts, the property of the late Charles Loeser, removed from Torre Gattaia, Florence, twenty-three original drawings by Thomas Bewick for his History of British birds and his History of quadrupeds, and the Julia Boyd collection of 423 engraved woodblocks from Thomas Bewick's workshop, as used for her Bewick gleanings, 1866, the property of Mrs. Hester Haig, which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. ... at their large galleries ... on Monday, the 15th February, 1960 and the following day

Sotheby & Co. (London, England)

1960