SCLATER (PHILIP LUTLEY)


On the Curassows Now or Lately Living in the Society's Gardens [extracted from The Transactions of the Zoological Society], Part IV only, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY inscribed "Mr. Van Bemmelen with the compliments of the author" on front free endpaper, 14 hand-coloured lithographed plates, contemporary cloth, [cf. Nissen IVB 841], 1873--ELLIOT (DANIEL GIRAUD) The Gallinaceous Game Birds of North America, NUMBER 71 OF 100 LARGE PAPER COPIES, signed by the author, 46 plates, colour chart inside lower cover, publisher's cloth, t.e.g., spine soiled [Nissen IVB 299], New York, Francis P. Harper, 1897--SWANN (HARRY KIRKE) A Monograph of the Birds of Prey, 2 vol., 56 plates (39 colour), modern half morocco [Nissen IVB 917], Wheldon & Wesley, 1930-1945--BLAKSTON (W.A.) and others. The Illustrated Book of Canaries and Cage-Birds, British and Foreign, 56 chromolithographed plates, original half morocco gilt, g.e., worn [Nissen IVB 108], Cassell, Petter, Galpin, [c.1880]--RAMBERT (EUGÈNE) AND LÉO PAUL ROBERT. Les oiseaux dans la nature, frontispiece, 20 mounted chromolithographed plates, other wood-engraved plates and illustrations, 5 colour plates with some signs of adhesion to facing text leaf (resulting in tears to 2 leaves), later quarter morocco, worn [Nissen IVB 783], Paris, Germer Ballière, [1878], 4to and folio; and 6 others (12)