![MEYER, Adolf Bernhard (1840-1911). Unser Auer-, Rackel- und Birkwild und seine Abarten. Vienna: Adolph W. Künast, 1887. Atlas volume only [lacking one 4° volume of text], large oblong 2° (493 x 660mm). 17 hand-coloured lithographic plates on thin card by and after Gustav Mützel, printed by C. Böhm of Berlin, finished with gum arabic. (Spotting to the edges, and in the margins of the last three plates, heavier spotting in the title, some short marginal tears.) Original half cloth portfolio over printed boards (neatly rebacked, corners repaired, some soiling and wear). Provenance: Hugh Lupus, 1st Duke of Westminster (1825-1899).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2015/CSK/2015_CSK_10414_0086_000(meyer_adolf_bernhard_unser_auer-_rackel-_und_birkwild_und_seine_abarte111506).jpg?w=1)
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MEYER, Adolf Bernhard (1840-1911). Unser Auer-, Rackel- und Birkwild und seine Abarten. Vienna: Adolph W. Künast, 1887. Atlas volume only [lacking one 4° volume of text], large oblong 2° (493 x 660mm). 17 hand-coloured lithographic plates on thin card by and after Gustav Mützel, printed by C. Böhm of Berlin, finished with gum arabic. (Spotting to the edges, and in the margins of the last three plates, heavier spotting in the title, some short marginal tears.) Original half cloth portfolio over printed boards (neatly rebacked, corners repaired, some soiling and wear). Provenance: Hugh Lupus, 1st Duke of Westminster (1825-1899).
FIRST EDITION of this fine series of plates from an important monograph on the grouse and its hybrids. Mützel, an animal painter born and trained in Berlin, was perhaps best known for his contribution to Brehm's Illustriertes Tierleben, but the present work is undoubtedly his masterpiece. The plates were drawn on stone by Mützel from his own drawings, printed by Böhm of Berlin and then, according to Nissen, hand-coloured by M. Schneider. ABPC and RBH record no copy at auction in the past 15 years. Cf. Anker 335; cf. Fine Bird Books (1990) p.121; cf. Nissen IVB 625; cf. Wood 461; cf. Zimmer 431.
FIRST EDITION of this fine series of plates from an important monograph on the grouse and its hybrids. Mützel, an animal painter born and trained in Berlin, was perhaps best known for his contribution to Brehm's Illustriertes Tierleben, but the present work is undoubtedly his masterpiece. The plates were drawn on stone by Mützel from his own drawings, printed by Böhm of Berlin and then, according to Nissen, hand-coloured by M. Schneider. ABPC and RBH record no copy at auction in the past 15 years. Cf. Anker 335; cf. Fine Bird Books (1990) p.121; cf. Nissen IVB 625; cf. Wood 461; cf. Zimmer 431.