Richard Bowdler Sharpe and Claude Wilmott Wyatt | A Monograph of the Hirundinidae, 1885-1894, 2 volumes

Books from the Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven

Richard Bowdler Sharpe and Claude Wilmott Wyatt

A Monograph of the Hirundinidae. London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1885-1894

2 volumes, 4to (316 x 252 mm.), 103 hand-coloured lithographed plates after Wyatt printed by the Mintern Brothers, 26 partially hand-coloured lithographed maps, 15 double-page tables, later half morocco, spine with raised bands in six compartments, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers, spine slightly sunned

LITERATURE:

Fine Bird Books, p. 107; McGill/Wood 565; Nissen IVB 868; Yale/Ripley 262; Zimmer 378