Travel, Atlases, Maps, Photographs & Natural History
Travel, Atlases, Maps, Photographs & Natural History
Books from a Private Collection
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September 21, 09:15 AM GMT
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3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Books from a Private Collection
H. Seebohm
A monograph of the turdidae. Or family of thrushes… edited and completed (after the author’s death) by R. Bowdler Sharpe. London: Henry Sotheran, [1898]-1902
FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, folio (375 x 280mm.), photogravure portrait, 149 hand-coloured lithographed plates by J.G. Keulemans, heightened in gum arabic, red three-quarter morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, extremities slightly rubbed
"A thorough monograph of a limited section of the family Turdidae... Several new species are described. The hand-colored plates by Keulemans are excellent" (Zimmer).
PROVENANCE:
Joseph McDonough Co., bookseller's ticket
LITERATURE:
Anker 458; Fine Bird Books, p. 106; McGill/Wood, p. 561; Nissen IVB 852; Zimmer, pp. 570-571