Birds.- Sharpe (Richard Bowdler) A Monograph of the Alcedinidae: or, Family of Kingfishers, bound from the original 15 parts, first edition, list of subscribers, hand-coloured lithographed 'Map of the Family Alcedinidae', uncoloured lithographed plate of characteristics and 120 hand-coloured lithographed plates after J.G.Keulemans printed and coloured by P.W.M.Trap, many heightened with gum arabic, with original printed pink wrappers bound in at end, also cancel sheet for 'Strickland's Kingfisher' erroneously headed 'Ceyx Tridactyla' and erratum slip with instructions re cancellation (plate in text with correct caption pasted over), some light spotting, some plates a little smaller but part wrappers also varying in size, as a result some margins lightly soiled/browned and brittle or frayed at edges, bookplate of Edward Milner later half pigskin, uncut, rubbed, upper joint a little worn, recased, new endpapers, [Anker 464; Fine Bird Books p.141; Nissen IVB 864], 4to, for the Author, 1868-71. ⁂ The author's first ornithological work. The list of subscribers includes most of the great ornithological authors of the time: H.E.Dresser, D.G.Elliott, John Gould J.E.Harting, Sir William Jardine Lord Lilford, G.F.L.Marshall, O.Salvin, P.L.Sclater, Capt. Shelley.
Birds.- Sharpe (Richard Bowdler) A Monograph of the Alcedinidae: or, Family of Kingfishers, bound from the original 15 parts, first edition, list of subscribers, hand-coloured lithographed 'Map of the Family Alcedinidae', uncoloured lithographed plate of characteristics and 120 hand-coloured lithographed plates after J.G.Keulemans printed and coloured by P.W.M.Trap, many heightened with gum arabic, with original printed pink wrappers bound in at end, also cancel sheet for 'Strickland's Kingfisher' erroneously headed 'Ceyx Tridactyla' and erratum slip with instructions re cancellation (plate in text with correct caption pasted over), some light spotting, some plates a little smaller but part wrappers also varying in size, as a result some margins lightly soiled/browned and brittle or frayed at edges, bookplate of Edward Milner later half pigskin, uncut, rubbed, upper joint a little worn, recased, new endpapers, [Anker 464; Fine Bird Books p.141; Nissen IVB 864], 4to, for the Author, 1868-71. ⁂ The author's first ornithological work. The list of subscribers includes most of the great ornithological authors of the time: H.E.Dresser, D.G.Elliott, John Gould J.E.Harting, Sir William Jardine Lord Lilford, G.F.L.Marshall, O.Salvin, P.L.Sclater, Capt. Shelley.
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