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HENRY EELES DRESSER (1838-1915)
A Monograph of the Coraciidae, or the Family of Rollers, Farnborough: by the Author, 1893. 4° (371 x 269mm.). 27 hand-coloured lithographed plates by J. G. Keulemans. (Occasional light spotting and browning). Finely-bound in 19th-century blue morocco gilt by Leighton, upper cover with central gilt coat-of-arms of Baron Sherborne, spine gilt in compartments, g.e. Provenance: Baron Sherborne (arms on upper cover and armorial bookplate); Ernest Shoemaker (bookplate).
Nissen IVB 270; Sitwell Fine Bird Books p.92; Zimmer I, 178 'A thoroughly detailed study of the group, with excellent hand-coloured plates'.
A Monograph of the Coraciidae, or the Family of Rollers, Farnborough: by the Author, 1893. 4° (371 x 269mm.). 27 hand-coloured lithographed plates by J. G. Keulemans. (Occasional light spotting and browning). Finely-bound in 19th-century blue morocco gilt by Leighton, upper cover with central gilt coat-of-arms of Baron Sherborne, spine gilt in compartments, g.e. Provenance: Baron Sherborne (arms on upper cover and armorial bookplate); Ernest Shoemaker (bookplate).
Nissen IVB 270; Sitwell Fine Bird Books p.92; Zimmer I, 178 'A thoroughly detailed study of the group, with excellent hand-coloured plates'.
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