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THOMAS HORSFIELD (1773-1859)
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THOMAS HORSFIELD (1773-1859)
Zoological Researches in Java, and the Neighbouring Islands. London: S. McDowall for Kingsbury, Parbury & Allen, 1824. 4° (290 x 240mm). 72 lithographs, etchings and aquatints, 64 of these hand-coloured, including 32 of birds, by W. Taylor and C. Hullmandel after W. Daniell, J. Curtis and A. Pelletier. (Some scattered spotting, some offsetting to text.) Contemporary Russia by Henington, with ticket, sides with frames tooled in gilt and blind (re-backed, extremities rubbed, sides scuffed).
FIRST EDITION. Horsefield's is only the second English bird book to be illustrated with lithographs. Nearly half of the plates are of birds, and more than 20 of the mammals are after drawings by William Daniell. A number of the specimens were collected by Horsfield for Thomas Stamford Raffles. Nissen IVB 453; Anker 212; Fine Bird Books p.82.
Zoological Researches in Java, and the Neighbouring Islands. London: S. McDowall for Kingsbury, Parbury & Allen, 1824. 4° (290 x 240mm). 72 lithographs, etchings and aquatints, 64 of these hand-coloured, including 32 of birds, by W. Taylor and C. Hullmandel after W. Daniell, J. Curtis and A. Pelletier. (Some scattered spotting, some offsetting to text.) Contemporary Russia by Henington, with ticket, sides with frames tooled in gilt and blind (re-backed, extremities rubbed, sides scuffed).
FIRST EDITION. Horsefield's is only the second English bird book to be illustrated with lithographs. Nearly half of the plates are of birds, and more than 20 of the mammals are after drawings by William Daniell. A number of the specimens were collected by Horsfield for Thomas Stamford Raffles. Nissen IVB 453; Anker 212; Fine Bird Books p.82.
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