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KRAUSE, Georg (1858-?). Oologia universalis palaearctica. Stuttgart: Fritz Lehmann, 1906-13.
78 fascicules, 4° (298 x 230mm). 159 chromolithographic plates, including one repeat. (Occasional marginal tears, soiling or spotting without touching the plates.) Original printed wrappers (one with detached covers, a few others torn and soiled, sun browning at edges). Provenance: Gerald Oakley, 6th Earl Cadogan, Culford Hall, Suffolk (1869-1933, and by descent).
VERY RARE COMPLETE SET IN ORIGINAL PARTS with 'large, beautifully drawn and colored plates ... showing series and variations in greater or less number. The text, in German and English, gives names and synonymy, and details of nidification in concise form for each species, with full data for each egg or clutch shown' (Zimmer). Complete bound copies are rare, and no complete set in parts could be traced at auction for the past 44 years. The present copy has a duplicate of the plate Cuculus canorus III in part 56. The first issue of Krause's Zeitschrift für Oologie dated January 1911 is included, unopened, in part 54. Nissen IVB 527; Wood p.422: 'a beautiful series of colored plates'; Zimmer pp.360-1. (78)
78 fascicules, 4° (298 x 230mm). 159 chromolithographic plates, including one repeat. (Occasional marginal tears, soiling or spotting without touching the plates.) Original printed wrappers (one with detached covers, a few others torn and soiled, sun browning at edges). Provenance: Gerald Oakley, 6th Earl Cadogan, Culford Hall, Suffolk (1869-1933, and by descent).
VERY RARE COMPLETE SET IN ORIGINAL PARTS with 'large, beautifully drawn and colored plates ... showing series and variations in greater or less number. The text, in German and English, gives names and synonymy, and details of nidification in concise form for each species, with full data for each egg or clutch shown' (Zimmer). Complete bound copies are rare, and no complete set in parts could be traced at auction for the past 44 years. The present copy has a duplicate of the plate Cuculus canorus III in part 56. The first issue of Krause's Zeitschrift für Oologie dated January 1911 is included, unopened, in part 54. Nissen IVB 527; Wood p.422: 'a beautiful series of colored plates'; Zimmer pp.360-1. (78)
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