Part One of a First edition (1864) of this scarce work. Beautifully bound in original ornate blind-tooled green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine with joint Van Voorst and Matchett and Stevenson pre-publication flyer bound into title page. John Henry Gurney (1819-90) entered his family banking business in Norwich after leaving school. A collector from boyhood, he made great progress in forming the vast and celebrated collection of \'Raptores\' in the Norwich Museum. His knowledge of birds of prey was outstanding and this work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important.Some tanning / foxing to inner pages as shown.