拍品 127
  • 127

Dresser, Henry Eeles.

估價
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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描述

  • A Monograph of the Meropidae, or the Family of the Bee-Eaters. London: published by the author, 1884-1886
first edition, large 4to (376 x 270mm.), title with wood-engraved vignette, dedication leaf, 34 hand-coloured lithographed plates by and after J.G. Keulemans, printed by Hanhart, twentieth-century three-quarter red morocco gilt

出版

Fine Bird Books, p.72; Nissen IVB 269; Wood, p.324; Zimmer, p.178

Condition

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