LOT 49 History of the Birds of Europe, Including all the Species Inhabiting the Western Palaearctic Region, 9 vol., FIRST EDITION, Taylor and Francis, for the Author, 1871-96 DRESSER (HENRY E.)
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DRESSER (HENRY E.)
History of the Birds of Europe, Including all the Species Inhabiting the Western Palaearctic Region, 9 vol., FIRST EDITION, decorative lithographed titles, list of subscribers, 719 hand-coloured lithographed plates after J.G. Keulemans, Joseph Wolf and E. Neale (of 721, 2 plates supplied in manuscript facsimile by L. Kingsley Kefford), 2 uncoloured plates, one plate (Little Gull) loose, occasional light spotting, contemporary quarter morocco, t.e.g., rubbed [Anker 120; Fine Bird Books, p.72; Nissen IVB 267; Wood, p.324; Zimmer, p.177], 4to (311 x 245mm.), Taylor and Francis, for the Author, 1871-96
|Dresser's "magnificent treatise" (Wood) includes birds from "the whole of continental Europe to the Ural range, Scandinavia, Spitzbergen, the British Isles, Iceland, the Faeroes, the Azores, Madeira, and the Canary Isles, a comparatively narrow strip of North Africa, reaching to the border of the desert, Asia Minor (excluding the Jordan valley, which is essentially Ethiopian), and the Caucasus" (Introduction). Originally issued in 84 parts between 1871 and 1882, a further 9 supplementary parts appeared between 1895 and 1896.Provenance: Avicultural Society T.H. Newman Bequest 1944, bookplate; De Goederen, Amsterdam, 22 June 1954.
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