Frans Ernst Blaauw | A monograph of the cranes, Leiden, 1897, original pictorial cloth gilt

Frans Ernst Blaauw

A monograph of the cranes... illustrated by 22 coloured plates... by Heinrich Leutermann and J.G. Keulemans. Leiden: E.J. Brill; London: R.H. Porter, 1897

FIRST EDITION, folio (462 x 361mm.), copy number 24 of a limited edition of 170 copies, half-title, 22 tipped-in hand-finished colour plates, original grey-green pictorial cloth gilt, green edges, extremities very slightly rubbed

A fine work on cranes based on the specimens at the Zoological Gardens in Amsterdam.

Loosely inserted is an advertisement for a pair of hooded cranes, offered for sale at £80 a pair, by the wildlife dealer W. Jamrach of Stoke Newington, London. There is also a letter from W.B. Tegetmeier at The Field magazine addressed to the ornithologist Hubert Astley, dated June 12 1901, regarding the egg laying of an Australasian crane on Astley's Benham Park estate in Newbury, with various clippings from The Field and Country Life from 1901 about this event.

LITERATURE:

Fine Bird Books, p. 59; McGill/Wood, p. 242; Nissen IVB 105; Zimmer, p. 59