[Birds] 2 titles in 12 volumes: (1) Planches coloriées des oiseaux de la Belgique

et de leurs oeufs; par C.F. Dubois. Brussels etc., C. Muquardt, 1854-(?), two (of three) volumes, LXX,(2); (1),LXXII-CXXIV p., with respectively 98 (of 104, some plates counted as 2) and 118 (of 119) handcoloured plates with letterpress descriptive text leaves, also in volume one 10 handcoloured plates with eggs numbered II-XI and in volume two similar plates numbered XVIII-XXXVIa, contemporary uniform half leather.

Volume 1 lacks plates 27, 38, 65-67 and 89, volume 2 lacks plate 126 (plates consecutively numbered in volume 2). Both volumes with interior tender and here and there frayed. Sold as set of bird plates, w.a.f.; (2) Synopsis Avium. Nouveau manuel d'ornithologie par Alphonse Dubois. Fascicule I-IV, VII-XI and XV. Brussels, H. Lamertin, 1899-1903, 10 (of 17 volumes), with 11 (of 16) chromolithographic plates, original uniform wrapper (wrapper volume I frayed and reinforced with tape) (total 2 titles in 12 volumes).