Ornithology
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From the greatest nidological rarity: Wirsing's wonderful nests and eggs
From the greatest nidological rarity: Wirsing's wonderful nests and eggs
From the greatest nidological rarity: Wirsing's wonderful nests and eggs
From the greatest nidological rarity: Wirsing's wonderful nests and eggs
From the greatest nidological rarity: Wirsing's wonderful nests and eggs
With fine bird plates by Keulemans, Joseph Smit and William Hart
Sharpe, R. B.
Scientific results of the Second Yarkand Mission; based upon the collections and notes of the late Ferdinand Stoliczka, Ph.D. Aves.
London, Taylor and Francis [by order of the Government of India], [1878]-1891. Large 4to (31.4 x 25.7 cm). Titlepage, [iii]-xviii, 153 pp.; 24 finely hand-coloured, lithographed plates, mostly by J. G. Keulemans. 20th-century red half morocco over red linen. Spine with five raised, gilt-stippled bands; compartments gilt-lined; gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
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€6,000.00
Heavy Metal parrots
A fine exemple of craftmanship by the renowned taxidermist Thomas Gunn
A fine watercolour by a renowned bird artist
Two ultra-rare counterproof plates
[Manetti, F. S]
Storia naturale degli uccelli trattata con metodo e adornata di figure intagliate in rame e miniate al naturale. Ornithologia methodice digesta atque iconibus aeneis ad vivum illuminatis ornate. [Two counterproofs in original water colouring, of Plate 37, Falco albanella torquata, and of Plate 48, Falco vulga barletto.]
[Florence, 1776]. Two single sheets (each 47.1 x 35.8 cm). Hand-coloured and captioned.
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€2,400.00
The same bird... and its nest
Germans illustrating krauts