- Text foxed/ browned (mostly following plates); owner's entry on first blank. All vols. backstrip loose(ning)/ dam./ sunned; covers mouldy. Plates fine.
= Nissen, IVB 938; Anker 508.
= With dedication in pen by A.C. Oudemans (dated "'s Gravenhage Maart 1889") on first free endpaper. Nissen ZBI, 4258 (orig. German edition, 1884). Not in the usual ornithological reference works.
- First vol. backstrip dam.; bindings sl. rubbed/ worn along extremities.
= Nissen, IVB 1026; Bradley Martin 240; Anker 544: "(...) the work contains figures of the majority of the birds found in Sweden, such forms as rarely appear, or have only appeared a few times in that country, not being represented."
AND 1 other: L.A. JÄGERSKIÖLD and G. KOLTHOFF, Nordens Fäglar (ibid., 1926, 2nd ed., 2 vols., num. col. plates, contemp. gilt dec. cl., folio).
- All sl. yellowed.
- Closed tear in outer blank margin.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIV.
= Nissen, IVB 145/ 301.
- Trimmed to the platemark.
AND 2 others from the same work, w. stains and creases: "Tringa ochropus" (Green sandpiper) and "Anas Ferina" (Common Goldeneye).