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HORSFIELD (Thomas): ZOOLOGICAL RESEARCHES IN JAVA, AND THE NEIGHBOURING ISLANDS, London, Kingsbury, Parbury & Allen, 1824.
FIRST EDITION, 4to (291 x 230mm.), 72 plates, 64 hand-coloured (including 32 of birds), after W.Daniell, W.Taylor, J.Curtis and A.Pelletier (some spotting and offsetting mainly to text), contemporary dark blue half morocco, ownership stamps of the North Devon Athenaeum in margin of a few text leaves and verso of title (scuffed, inner higes strengthened).
The second English bird book to be illustrated with lithographs. It also contains etchings and aquatints. Nissen IVB 453; Anker 212; Fine Bird Books p.82.
FIRST EDITION, 4to (291 x 230mm.), 72 plates, 64 hand-coloured (including 32 of birds), after W.Daniell, W.Taylor, J.Curtis and A.Pelletier (some spotting and offsetting mainly to text), contemporary dark blue half morocco, ownership stamps of the North Devon Athenaeum in margin of a few text leaves and verso of title (scuffed, inner higes strengthened).
The second English bird book to be illustrated with lithographs. It also contains etchings and aquatints. Nissen IVB 453; Anker 212; Fine Bird Books p.82.