Lechner (Arnold A. van Pelt). "Oologia Neerlandica". Eggs of Birds breeding in the Netherlands, 2 volumes, 1st edition, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1910-[14], half-titles, 191 plates each containing 3 or 4 mounted three-colour or collotype prints of bird eggs, all mounted on linen guards as issued, tissue-guards, occasional light spotting to text-leaves, tissue-guards and mounts, errata slip to rear of volume 2, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, original green half morocco, spines gilt with bird and nest motifs, spines sunned, 4to (24.6 x 18.4 cm) (Qty: 2) Anker 390; Nissen IVB 709; Wood p. 610; Zimmer pp. 651-2. One of 100 copies in English, from the total edition of 250. 'A beautiful and unusually well-designed work' (Wood). 'The pictures of the eggs [are] mounted in frames sunk in thin card, thus producing a particularly pleasing effect' (Anker).
Lechner (Arnold A. van Pelt). "Oologia Neerlandica". Eggs of Birds breeding in the Netherlands, 2 volumes, 1st edition, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1910-[14], half-titles, 191 plates each containing 3 or 4 mounted three-colour or collotype prints of bird eggs, all mounted on linen guards as issued, tissue-guards, occasional light spotting to text-leaves, tissue-guards and mounts, errata slip to rear of volume 2, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, original green half morocco, spines gilt with bird and nest motifs, spines sunned, 4to (24.6 x 18.4 cm) (Qty: 2) Anker 390; Nissen IVB 709; Wood p. 610; Zimmer pp. 651-2. One of 100 copies in English, from the total edition of 250. 'A beautiful and unusually well-designed work' (Wood). 'The pictures of the eggs [are] mounted in frames sunk in thin card, thus producing a particularly pleasing effect' (Anker).
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