Tabular View of the Orders & Families of Birds

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Verlag: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge/Edward Stanford, London, 1857

Beschreibung

A scarce collection of four folding plates, displaying the various species of birds, with engravings. A scarce work in quarter cloth and paper wraps, with a title label to the front of the wraps. Bookplate of Roy R. King, a numismatist and art collector, to the front of the wrap. A collection of four folding plates, arranged according to Mr. G. R. Gray's Genera of Birds (1844 49), of orders and families of birds. Plates include Orders Accipitres, Passeres, Scansores, Galinae, Gralle and Anseres, and families within these orders. The illustrations were engraved by Joseph Wilson Lowry (1803 1879), a British engraver who specialised in scientific subjects.Undated, dated through copies held at the Science Museum Library. In quarter cloth and paper wraps. Externally sound, with faint marks to the front of the wraps. Some creasing and small closed tears to the extremities of the wraps. Binding is tender but still held by cords. Folding plates remain smart. Very Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 870M4

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Tabular View of the Orders & Families of ...

Verlag: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge/Edward Stanford, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1857

Einband: Paperback

Illustrator: J. W. Lowry

Zustand: Very Good

Art des Buches: book