Birds.- India.- Jerdon (T. C.) Illustrations of Indian Ornithology, containing fifty figures of new, unfigured and interesting species of birds, chiefly from the South of India, 50 hand-coloured plates, many heightened with gum arabic, one or two with printed titles on blue paper pasted down, previous owner's ink inscription to title, 6 text ff. with short tears or small marginal loss and expert repairs, scattered faint spotting and soiling, near contemporary half-calf, g.e., [Anker 231; Fine Bird Books, p.83; Nissen 477], small 4to, Madras, by P. R. Hunt, 1847.*** The first colour-plate book devoted to Indian birds.Privately printed in India with plates by native Indian artists. The author arrived in Madras in 1836 as an assistant surgeon to the East India Company.