W. Knatchbull-Hugessen, 3rd Baron Brabourne, and Charles Chubb | The Birds of South America, [1913]-1917, 2 volumes

Wyndham W. Knatchbull-Hugessen, 3rd Baron Brabourne, and Charles Chubb

The Birds of South America. London: R.H. Porter, John Wheldon; Taylor & Francis, [1913-] 1917

FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, royal 8vo (290 x 194mm.), 38 hand-coloured lithographed plates after Henrik Grönvold, coloured map, green three-quarter morocco by Wallis, original wrappers to the plates bound in at end of plate volume

A FINE COPY. “The beautiful plates… are among the best ever produced by Grönvold” (Anker).

The work had been planned to comprise 16 volumes, but Braborne was killed in action in 1915.

LITERATURE:

Anker 56; McGill/Wood, p. 253; Nissen IVB 129; Zimmer, pp. 85-86