LOT 51 Monograph of the Coraciidae, or Family of Rollers, FIRST EDITION, Farnborough, by the Author at Topclyffe Grange, 1893 DRESSER (HENRY E.)
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DRESSER (HENRY E.)
Monograph of the Coraciidae, or Family of Rollers, FIRST EDITION, 27 hand-coloured lithographed plates by and after Keulemans, title-page with wood-engraved vignette, modern half morocco, t.e.g. [Fine Bird Books, p.92; Nissen IVB 270; Wood, p.324; Zimmer, p.178], folio (375 x 276), Farnborough, by the Author at Topclyffe Grange, 1893
|First edition of the companion volume to the author's Monograph of the Meropidae, with notes on the anatomy and osteology by Frank E. Beddard, and lithographs by Keulemans: "Some of his best autolithographs are in Dresser's two monographs of the bee-eaters and rollers" (Christine Jackson, Bird Illustrators; Some Artists in Early Lithography, pp.88-89).
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