Birds.- Sclater (Philip Lutley) A Monograph of the Birds forming the Tanagrine Genus Calliste, first edition, 45 hand-coloured lithographed plates after P.L.Oudart, heightened with gum arabic, partly-coloured engraved map, [Anker 448; Fine Bird Books p.139; Nissen IVB 839], a very good copy, 1857; Synopsis of the Fissirostral Family Bucconidae, reprinted, with additions, from 'Annals and Magazine of Natural History' 2nd Series 1854, 4 hand-coloured lithographed plates after P.L.Oudart, lightly offset, [Not in Nissen], 1854, together 2 works in 1 vol., S.Dillon Ripley's copy with his bookplate, contemporary half red morocco, t.e.g., others uncut, spine gilt, slightly rubbed, 8vo . ⁂ S.Dillon Ripley (1913-2001), American ornithologist and conservationist who served as Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1964 to 1984.
Birds.- Sclater (Philip Lutley) A Monograph of the Birds forming the Tanagrine Genus Calliste, first edition, 45 hand-coloured lithographed plates after P.L.Oudart, heightened with gum arabic, partly-coloured engraved map, [Anker 448; Fine Bird Books p.139; Nissen IVB 839], a very good copy, 1857; Synopsis of the Fissirostral Family Bucconidae, reprinted, with additions, from 'Annals and Magazine of Natural History' 2nd Series 1854, 4 hand-coloured lithographed plates after P.L.Oudart, lightly offset, [Not in Nissen], 1854, together 2 works in 1 vol., S.Dillon Ripley's copy with his bookplate, contemporary half red morocco, t.e.g., others uncut, spine gilt, slightly rubbed, 8vo . ⁂ S.Dillon Ripley (1913-2001), American ornithologist and conservationist who served as Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1964 to 1984.
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