LOT 3090
17th March 2020
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LOT 3090
SMYTHIES, B.E. Birds of Burma. Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press, 1940. First edition, 8vo (231 x 148mm.) 31 colour plates by A.M. Hughes, captioned tissue-guards, map to rear. (Mild toning, ink gift inscription on the f.f.e.p..) Original green cloth, gilt lettering to spine (slight rubbing to extremities, mark to upper cover). Note: rare in the first edition. According to Smythies's introduction to the second edition, most copies of the first edition, already limited to 1000, were bought by Europeans in Burma and when the Japanese invaded in 1942, they left the books behind. Smythies goes on to say that the Japanese then collected the books up and shipped them off to the library of the Royal Veterinary College in Tokyo, which was subsequently bombed.
Hammer price: £150
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