Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles) A Monograph of the Coraciidae, or Family of the Rollers, first edition, 27 fine hand-coloured lithographed plates by J.G.Keulemans, printed by Hanhart, some heightened with gum arabic, foxing to a couple of plates but overall an excellent clean copy, later half burgundy morocco, rebacked preserving old spine (rubbed), [Fine Bird Books p.92; Nissen IVB 270], large 4to, Farnborough, by the Author, 1893. ⁂ "The Scansorial Barbets [by Charles & George Marshall lot 284], and the Jacamars [by P.L.Sclater, lot 286] are on a par with Dresser's Rollers and his Bee-eaters; indeed the quartet of books, together with Shelley's Sunbirds [lot 288] added to them, are the minor works of the school of Gould." Sacheverell Sitwell in Fine Bird Books p.61.
Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles) A Monograph of the Coraciidae, or Family of the Rollers, first edition, 27 fine hand-coloured lithographed plates by J.G.Keulemans, printed by Hanhart, some heightened with gum arabic, foxing to a couple of plates but overall an excellent clean copy, later half burgundy morocco, rebacked preserving old spine (rubbed), [Fine Bird Books p.92; Nissen IVB 270], large 4to, Farnborough, by the Author, 1893. ⁂ "The Scansorial Barbets [by Charles & George Marshall lot 284], and the Jacamars [by P.L.Sclater, lot 286] are on a par with Dresser's Rollers and his Bee-eaters; indeed the quartet of books, together with Shelley's Sunbirds [lot 288] added to them, are the minor works of the school of Gould." Sacheverell Sitwell in Fine Bird Books p.61.
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