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BLAAUW, FRANZ ERNEST. A Monograph of the Cranes. Leiden and London: E.J. Brill and R.H. Porter 1897. Folio, original pictorial cloth gilt, extremities and hinges rubbed, corners bumped, covers slightly soiled, text paper a bit darkened, one or two tiny marginal tears, occasional very minor soiling. LIMITED EDITION, one of 170 copies, 22 tipped-in hand-finished color lithographs, 12 pen-and-ink lithos and one halftone in the text. Nissen/IVB 105; Nissen SVB 49; Zimmer p. 59; Ellis 287; Fine Bird Books p. 59; Wood p. 242.