Lot 2
  • 2

Buller, Walter

Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 GBP
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Description

  • A History of the Birds of New Zealand. London: John Van Voorst, 1873
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 4to (313 x 240mm.), tinted lithographed frontispiece, list of subscribers, 35 hand-coloured lithographed plates after J.G. Keulemans, contemporary red half morocco gilt

Provenance

William Owen Stanley, subscriber, engraved armorial bookplate; Madelaine Jay, bookplate

Literature

Anker 85; Fine Bird Books, p. 64; Nissen IVB 163; Wood, p.269

Condition

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Catalogue Note

An attractive subscriber's copy. Only 500 copies of the first edition were produced.