WILL NOT BE AUCTIONED SCLATER, Philip Lutley Catalogue of a collection of American birds [...]. London, N. Trubner, 8vo; pl. protected by tissue guards (rare foxing). Publisher's binding: red cloth, boards with frames of fillets and angular fleurons, flat spine with roll-stamps and title in gilt (slightly soiled, some stains). First edition illustrated with hand-coloured lithographed plates, partly heightened with gum arabic, and with a black title vignette. The catalogue belonging to Sclater comprises about 4.specimens of which 2.species of passeres, fissirostres and scansores. The English lawyer and zoologist Sclater (1829-identified the main zoogeographic regions of the world and was the Secretary of the Zoological Society of London for years. His collection of 9.birds was transferred to the British Museum. Ref. Sabin ("Very few copies were issued with the plates").- Nissen, IVB, 837.- Anker
WILL NOT BE AUCTIONED SCLATER, Philip Lutley Catalogue of a collection of American birds [...]. London, N. Trubner, 8vo; pl. protected by tissue guards (rare foxing). Publisher's binding: red cloth, boards with frames of fillets and angular fleurons, flat spine with roll-stamps and title in gilt (slightly soiled, some stains). First edition illustrated with hand-coloured lithographed plates, partly heightened with gum arabic, and with a black title vignette. The catalogue belonging to Sclater comprises about 4.specimens of which 2.species of passeres, fissirostres and scansores. The English lawyer and zoologist Sclater (1829-identified the main zoogeographic regions of the world and was the Secretary of the Zoological Society of London for years. His collection of 9.birds was transferred to the British Museum. Ref. Sabin ("Very few copies were issued with the plates").- Nissen, IVB, 837.- Anker
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