Library Antiquarian
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A monograph of the pheasants.
Folio, four volumes, 90 coloured plates by Thorburn, Grönvold, Lodge and others, 88 photographs, map. Handsome red publisher's cloth, limited to 600 numbered copies, a very good set with a few light blemishes and a small worm hole to the first few leaves of volume one, the bookplate of Herbert Rivington Pyne.
Octavo, 487 pp. 50 lithographed plates, folding coloured map. Publisher's green gilt pictorial cloth, some slight wear, a few spots otherwsie a very good copy.
Folio, six volumes [bound in three] 303 chromolithographs. Contemporary full calf with elaborate gilt design, some wear and one volume with spine crudely rebound. All volumes with substantial wear, however internally a clean and a sound set.
Studies and sketches of a bird painter.
Small folio, 260 pp. colour plates, text illustrations. Publisher's full grey calf and Solander box, edition limited to 500 copies, numbered and signed by the artist, some marks to box otherwise a fine copy.
A Monograph of the Pittidae, or Family of Ant Thrushes.
Folio, 31 hand-colored lithographic plates heightened with gum arabic, after Elliot and P.L. Oudart. Six parts in the original printed tan card covers and half red roan, some light wear; a fine well coloured set.
Australian parrots.
Folio, two volumes colour plates. Publisher's full green calf, limited to 1000 copies numbered and signed by author and artist. Fine set in solander box.
Folio, 26 colour plates. This edition limited to 1000 copies signed by the author and artist.
A monograph of the petrels (Order Tubinares).
Quarto, 106 handcoloured lithographs by Keulemans. Contemporary full morocco (five parts in a single volume), upper cover with gilt albatross, spine in five compartments with raised bands, original publisher's printed wrappers retained. Limited to 225 numbered copies of which this is a copy number 96, a few very minor blemishes otherwise a very good copy free of foxing.
Folio, 42 coloured plates and accompanying text. Publisher's red half morocco, "An essay ..." by Brian Reade tipped in, a very good copy.
Amazon parrots: a monograph.
Folio, 180 pp. 25 tipped-in plates by Elizabeth Butterworth. Full red silk, all contained in a handsome black Solander box, limited to 515 numbered copies and signed by author and artist, with an additional handcoloured lithograph in a mount signed by the artist and limited to 70 copies; a fine copy.
Birds of Arabia. Edition de Luxe.
Quarto, 624 pp. tipped in plates, folding map. Full green morocco with inlaid leather falcon design on upper board, silk endpapers, all edges gilt. The special issue of ten copies lettered A-K, this copy is "I".
Quarto, dustwrapper, 128 pp. colour photographs, illustrations.
Octavo, four volumes, 1055 pp. text illustrations; a total of 69 plates including eleven zoological chromolithographs (three mammal, three bird, four reptile and one frog), folding map. Publisher's handsome blue cloth, uncut and partly unopened, a very good copy.
Octavo, 344 pp. 33 lithographed plates, including nine coloured by H. Gronvold. Publisher's cloth, rear hinge split, the library stamp of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, a bright crisp copy.