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Sharpe, R. B. and W. R. Ogilvie-Grant

Catalogue of the birds in the collection of the British Museum. Volume XXVI [26]. Catalogue of the Plataleae, Herodiones, Steganopodes, Pygopodes, Alcae and Impennes in the Collection of the British Museum. Plataleae (Ibises and spoonbills) and Herodiones (Herons and storks) by R. Bowlder Sharpe Steganopodes (Cormorants, gannets, frigate-birds, tropic-birds, and pelicans), Pygopodes (divers and grebes), Alcae (Auks), and Impennes (Penguins), by W. R. Ogilvie-Grant.

Published 1898
Item ID 71094
€280.00

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London, the Trustees of the British Museum, 1898. 8vo (22.1 x 14.4 cm). xvii, 688 20 pp.; 14 chromolithographed plates by Smit and Keulemans (numbered I, IA-IC, II, IIA, III-V, VA-VB, VI-VIII). Original blind stamped cloth with gilt title on the spine.

Rare part of a large series, but the only volume dealing with the groups mentioned in the title. With fine chromolithographed plates by the famous Dutch bird painters John Gerrard Keulemans and Joseph Smit. Top of spine a bit frayed, endpapers cracked in gutters. Pictorial bookplate and stamp on front pastedown, stamp on title page verso, otherwise a very good, clean copy. Nissen IVB, 175; 838; Zimmer, pp. 95-98, 584.

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