LONDON, 15 Piccadilly, fV., December 1865. 



Mr. BERNARD QUARITCH has just bought the few remaining copies of a very 



valuable first-class 



I ORNITHOLOGICAL WORK on the WOODPECKERS, viz. : 

 MALHERBE(A.)HISTOIRE NATUHELLE DES PICIDEES, 



PICIJMINES, 



YuNClNEs ou ToRCOLS, comprenant rorigine mythologique, les moeurs, les migrations, 

 I'anatotnie, la physiologie, la repartition g^ographique, les systenies de classification, ainsi 

 qu'un dictionnaire des auteurs et des ouvrages cite's; la synonymic, la description en latin et en 

 fran^ais, I'histoire de chaque espece, ainsi qu'un dictionnaire latin de toutes les especes, 4 vols, 

 royal folio, 123 carefully Coloured Plates of every variety of Woodpeckers, (pub. 450 

 francs,) in parts, £\8. Metz, 1863. 



The same, 4 vols., imperial folio, half-bound red Morocco extra, gilt edges. 

 Only 100 copies printed, which must soon be out of print. 



A copy, if ordered at once, will be charged — 



In Parts £ 9, Os. 



In 4 vols., half-bound Morocco extra, gilt edges . . £\2 12*. 



Mr. QUARITCH begs to draw the attention to the following works of Mr. GOULD, 

 all out of print, which he offers at the affixed Cash Prices : — 



GOULD'S (JOHN) BIRDS OF EUROPE, 



Five vols., imperial folio, 449 beautifully Coloured Plates, bds., uncut, very rare, jglOS. 



1832-33. 



The same, 5 vols., imperial folio, brown Morocco, gilt edges, 3^120. 1832-33. 

 From the library of the late Consul-General of Prussia, Bernard Hebeler, Esq. 



i GOULD'S BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA, 



Complete, with the Supplement, in 7 vols, and 3 parts, atlas foUo, with 649 Plates, most 

 CAREFULLY COLOURED (published in 39 parts at Three Guineas, making ^122 17*.), un- 

 bound, in cases, now entirely out of print. Baron de la Fresnaye's copy, £\Q0. 

 1848-59. ^ ^' 



The same, 7 vols., atlas folio, half-bound green Morocco, gilt edges, Miss Currer's 



copy, 36110. 1848-59. 



GOULD'S BIRDS OF ASIA, 



Parts I.-XV., atlas folio,248 large and beautifully coloured Plates (published at £47 5s.), 

 boards. Baron de la Fresnaye's copy, ^32. 1850-63. 



Now ready, 



A CATALOGUE of the ORNITHOLOGICAL and CONCHOLOGICAL 

 LIBRARY of the late Baron de la Fresnaye, of Falaise, in Normandy, gratis on 

 application. 



Bernard Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly, W. 



