BLAAUW, Frans Ernst (1860-1936). A Monograph of the Cranes. Leiden and London: E.J. Brill for Brill and R.H. Porter, 1897. 2° (463 x 360mm). 22 chromolithographic plates, finished by hand, by J.G. Keulemans after H. Leutemann and Keulemans, on guards, illustrations. (Occasional very light finger-soiling, one or two text leaves with short clean tear to lower blank margin.) Original pictorial green cloth gilt (corners bumped, slightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION, limited to 170 copies, of this "handsome, useful and basic work" (Mengel). 15 of the species figured were drawn from life in 1872 at the Amsterdam Zoo, by Heinrich Leutemann under the supervision of G.F. Westerman, the zoo's director and founder. The idea of writing the monograph was Westerman's, but he died in 1890, before his plan could be carried out. Zimmer p.59; Nissen IVB 105; Mengel 287; Fine Bird Books p.59.
BLAAUW, Frans Ernst (1860-1936). A Monograph of the Cranes. Leiden and London: E.J. Brill for Brill and R.H. Porter, 1897. 2° (463 x 360mm). 22 chromolithographic plates, finished by hand, by J.G. Keulemans after H. Leutemann and Keulemans, on guards, illustrations. (Occasional very light finger-soiling, one or two text leaves with short clean tear to lower blank margin.) Original pictorial green cloth gilt (corners bumped, slightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION, limited to 170 copies, of this "handsome, useful and basic work" (Mengel). 15 of the species figured were drawn from life in 1872 at the Amsterdam Zoo, by Heinrich Leutemann under the supervision of G.F. Westerman, the zoo's director and founder. The idea of writing the monograph was Westerman's, but he died in 1890, before his plan could be carried out. Zimmer p.59; Nissen IVB 105; Mengel 287; Fine Bird Books p.59.
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