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SALVIN, Osbert (1835-1898) and Frederick Du Cane GODMAN (1834-1919). Biologi Centrali-Americana: Aves. [London: by the authors], 1879-1904.
4 volumes, 4 (307 x 248mm). 84 hand-coloured lithographic plates by and after J. G. Keulemans and E. Neale (2), printed by M. and N. Hanhart, a few by Mintern Brothers, on guards. (A few guards strengthened, some light spotting to text.) Modern crimson half morocco by Period Bindery, Bath, t.e.g.
The ornithological section of the great work, edited by the authors, on the flora and fauna of Mexico and Central America, consisting in its entirety of 57 volumes, and published 1879-1915 in 257 parts, 74 of which related to birds. The ornithology included 1413 species and embraced 78 families and 539 genera, all constituing 'an essentially Neotropical' avifauna. The authors obtained the material they needed during their several visits to South America, and aided by other collectors eventually acquired more than 55,000 specimens which they eventually gave to the British Museum. As Salvin died before the completion of volume III, the work was finished by Godman with the assistance of R. B. Sharpe and W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. The 84 plates by Keulemans depict 149 species. Anker 437; Fine Bird Books p. 103, noting that 68 lithographs had appeared by the end of 1900; Nissen IVB 811; Wood p. 549; Zimmer p. 541 'a sumptuous monograph of the birds of Central America'. (4)
4 volumes, 4 (307 x 248mm). 84 hand-coloured lithographic plates by and after J. G. Keulemans and E. Neale (2), printed by M. and N. Hanhart, a few by Mintern Brothers, on guards. (A few guards strengthened, some light spotting to text.) Modern crimson half morocco by Period Bindery, Bath, t.e.g.
The ornithological section of the great work, edited by the authors, on the flora and fauna of Mexico and Central America, consisting in its entirety of 57 volumes, and published 1879-1915 in 257 parts, 74 of which related to birds. The ornithology included 1413 species and embraced 78 families and 539 genera, all constituing 'an essentially Neotropical' avifauna. The authors obtained the material they needed during their several visits to South America, and aided by other collectors eventually acquired more than 55,000 specimens which they eventually gave to the British Museum. As Salvin died before the completion of volume III, the work was finished by Godman with the assistance of R. B. Sharpe and W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. The 84 plates by Keulemans depict 149 species. Anker 437; Fine Bird Books p. 103, noting that 68 lithographs had appeared by the end of 1900; Nissen IVB 811; Wood p. 549; Zimmer p. 541 'a sumptuous monograph of the birds of Central America'. (4)