BEEBE (WILLIAM)


A Monograph of the Pheasants, 4 vol., FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 179 OF 600 COPIES, half-titles, 90 chromolithographed or collotype plates after Thorburn, G.E. Lodge, H. Gronvold, L.A. Fuertes, C.R. Knight, H. Jones and E. Megargee, 88 photogravure plates from photographs by Beebe and others, all with captioned tissue guards, 20 maps, contemporary maroon half morocco, spines gilt with raised bands, t.e.g., extremities of volumes 1-2 slightly rubbed [Anker 31; Nissen IVB 84; Mengel 203; Zimmer I, 49], folio (403 x 290mm.), Witherby & Co., for the New York Zoological Society, 1918-1922
|"Perhaps the greatest ornithological work of the present century" (Robert M. Mengel, A Catalogue of the Ellis Collection Of Ornithological Books in the University of Kansas Libraries, 1972-1983).