A Monograph of the Turdidae or Famly of Thrushes ... Edited and Completed (After the Author's Death) by R. Bowdler Sharpe. London: Henry Sotheran & Co., [1898]-1902. 2 volumes. Folio (374 x 274 mm). [12], [337]; [10], 250 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait and 149 hand-colored lithographed plates by and after J.G. Keuelemans. Half green morocco by Riviere & Son, raised bands, gilt bird devices in panels, t.e.g., marbled endpapers, original wrappers bound at rear. Mildly thumbed, catalogue description mounted to verso of frontispiece, spines a touch sunned, but an excellent copy overall. Provenance: Sir David Lionel Salomons (circular armorial bookplate); Walter Behrnard Sampson (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, BOUND FROM THE ORIGINAL PARTS. "A thorough monograph of a limited section of the family Turdidae ... Several new species are described. The hand-coloured plates by Keulemans are excellent" (Zimmer). Seebohm oversaw the preparation of most of the plates before his death, and his text occupies pp 1-91. The remainder of the text is by Sharpe. Ayer/Zimmer pp 570-71; Fine Bird Books p 141; Wood p 561.
A Monograph of the Turdidae or Famly of Thrushes ... Edited and Completed (After the Author's Death) by R. Bowdler Sharpe. London: Henry Sotheran & Co., [1898]-1902. 2 volumes. Folio (374 x 274 mm). [12], [337]; [10], 250 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait and 149 hand-colored lithographed plates by and after J.G. Keuelemans. Half green morocco by Riviere & Son, raised bands, gilt bird devices in panels, t.e.g., marbled endpapers, original wrappers bound at rear. Mildly thumbed, catalogue description mounted to verso of frontispiece, spines a touch sunned, but an excellent copy overall. Provenance: Sir David Lionel Salomons (circular armorial bookplate); Walter Behrnard Sampson (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, BOUND FROM THE ORIGINAL PARTS. "A thorough monograph of a limited section of the family Turdidae ... Several new species are described. The hand-coloured plates by Keulemans are excellent" (Zimmer). Seebohm oversaw the preparation of most of the plates before his death, and his text occupies pp 1-91. The remainder of the text is by Sharpe. Ayer/Zimmer pp 570-71; Fine Bird Books p 141; Wood p 561.
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