The Naturalist's Library, Ornithology, Volume V. Gallinaceous Birds, Part III: The Natural History of Pigeons.

Pp. xv, 228, 4 (ads), frontis portrait of Pliny, hand-colored title page, 30 hand-colored plates of pigeons and doves including many domesticated fancy pigeons (plates are numbered 1-30). Publisher's original purple cloth, gilt-lettered on the spine, original green endpapers, 12mo. This is volume 5 of Jardine's "The Naturalist's Library" with beautiful hand-colored plates. Also contains a memoir of the life of Pliny.