Property From The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts

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Lot 1016
  • 1016

Rothschild, Hon. Walter

Estimate
1,200 - 1,800 USD
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Description

  • Rothschild, Hon. Walter
  • A Monograph of the Genus Casuarius. [Extract from: Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, volume XV, pt. 5.] London: for the Society, 1900
  • printed book
Folio (12 3/4 x 10 ins.; 319 x 255 mm). Eighteen hand-colored lithographed plates, two lithographed maps hand-colored in part, and four duo-tone osteological plates; two plates with spotting in extreme bottom margin. Nineteenth-century half-morocco, gilt, original printed blue wrappers bound in; joints rubbed.

Provenance

E. L. de Rothschild (bookplate)

Literature

 Anker 548; Nissen IVB 796; Wood p 543.

Catalogue Note

first edition. A "beautifully illustrated treatise" (Wood) on the cassowary, a large, colorful, and flightless bird native to New Guninea, Northern Australia and surrounding islands.