Philip Lutley Sclater (1829-1913) A Monograph of the Jacamars and Puff-Birds, or Families Galbulidae and Bucconidae . London: published for the author by R. H. Porter and Dulau and Co. [printed by Taylor and Francis], [1879-1882]. 7 original parts bound in one volume, 4° (312 x 250mm). 1p. subscribers' list. Wood-engraved title vignette and anatomical illustrations, 55 HAND-COLOURED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES, heightened with gum arabic, by and after J. G. Keulemans, printed by Hanhart. Contemporary red half morocco gilt, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and third and dated at foot, the remaining compartments with simple repeated pattern of fillets and dot-roll and tools, original upper wrappers to the parts bound at the back, t.e.g., by Bickers & Son (slight damage to leather of upper cover). Provenance : Devereux family (armorial bookplate, obscured by:); Sir Alexander Kay Muir, Bart. (armorial bookplate). A FINE COPY OF THIS RARE WORK, BOUND FROM THE ORIGINAL SEVEN PARTS, with Keulemans' "beautiful plates" (Anker). This 'complete monograph' includes the names of only 48 subscribers. It is an extension of the author's earlier synopses on the two groups separately published in 1852 (Jacamars) and 1856 (Puff-birds). It includes synoptic tables for the determination of genera and species, and a seven-page bibliography, as well as including examples from the cabinets of F. Du Cane Godman and Osbert Salvin Sclater, a pillar of the zoological community, was secretary of the founder and editor of The Ibis , and secretary of the Zoological Society for 43 years. Anker 451; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.139; Nissen IVB 840; Zimmer p. 561 ("the hand-colored plates are excellent").
Philip Lutley Sclater (1829-1913) A Monograph of the Jacamars and Puff-Birds, or Families Galbulidae and Bucconidae . London: published for the author by R. H. Porter and Dulau and Co. [printed by Taylor and Francis], [1879-1882]. 7 original parts bound in one volume, 4° (312 x 250mm). 1p. subscribers' list. Wood-engraved title vignette and anatomical illustrations, 55 HAND-COLOURED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES, heightened with gum arabic, by and after J. G. Keulemans, printed by Hanhart. Contemporary red half morocco gilt, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and third and dated at foot, the remaining compartments with simple repeated pattern of fillets and dot-roll and tools, original upper wrappers to the parts bound at the back, t.e.g., by Bickers & Son (slight damage to leather of upper cover). Provenance : Devereux family (armorial bookplate, obscured by:); Sir Alexander Kay Muir, Bart. (armorial bookplate). A FINE COPY OF THIS RARE WORK, BOUND FROM THE ORIGINAL SEVEN PARTS, with Keulemans' "beautiful plates" (Anker). This 'complete monograph' includes the names of only 48 subscribers. It is an extension of the author's earlier synopses on the two groups separately published in 1852 (Jacamars) and 1856 (Puff-birds). It includes synoptic tables for the determination of genera and species, and a seven-page bibliography, as well as including examples from the cabinets of F. Du Cane Godman and Osbert Salvin Sclater, a pillar of the zoological community, was secretary of the founder and editor of The Ibis , and secretary of the Zoological Society for 43 years. Anker 451; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.139; Nissen IVB 840; Zimmer p. 561 ("the hand-colored plates are excellent").
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