Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
November 1903
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/150
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    136 137 138 139 140 14] 147 upwards of 700 different species and varieties, comprising all that are known to exist on this Continent, are represented in 119 plates, drawn and coloured from Nature by T. Jasper, morocco gilt, g. é. New York, 1881 Tegetmeier (W. B.) The Poultry Book, with pictures by Harrison Weir, in colours, n. d.—Harbaugh (N.) The Birds of the Bible, coloured plates (1854)—Morris (F. O.) Bible Natural History, engravings, 1896 (3) Tweeddale. Ornithological Works of Arthur, Ninth Marquis of Tweeddale, reprinted from the originals, edited and revised by R. G. W. Ramsay, portrait, half morocco, t.e. g. privately printed, 1881 Wilson (S. B.) and A. H. Evans. Aves Hawaiienses: the Birds of the Sandwich Islands, numerous beautifully coloured plates, half calf gilt, m. e. 1890-99 Wyatt (C. W.) British Birds: being coloured illustrations of all the species of Passerine Birds, resident in the British Isles, © with some Notesinreferencetotheir Plumage, halfcalfgiult 1894 FOLIO. Aldrovandus (Ulysses) Ornithologie : de Avibus Historie, libri XII, 3 vol. with numerous curious woodcuts, calf (rebacked), Bonon. 1646—Willoughby (Fr.) Ornithology, plates (stained), calf, 1678 (4) Biblia Sacra Polyglotta, Textus Archetypos versionesque preci- puas, ab Ecclesia Antiquitus receptas, ....accedunt Prole- gomena in Textuum Archetyporum, auctore S. Lee, 2 vol. half morocco, t. e. g. Bagster, n. d. Book of the Dead: Facsimiles of the Papyri of Hunefer, Anhai, Kerasher, and Netchemet, with Supplementary Text from the Papyrus of Nu, with transcripts, translations, &c. by Dr. Budge, half morocco ESO DRESSER (H. E.) Monograph of the Coraciidae, or Family of the Rollers, with 27 large and beautifully coloured plates, wncut ump. 4to. Published by the Author, 1893 KEuuiott (D. G.) Monograph of the Bucerotide, or Family of the Hornbills, with 59 large and beautifully coloured plates, half mo- rocco gilt, t.e. g. Published for the Subscribers, by the Author, 1882 Hesychius. Lexicon, Grace, ed. J. Alberti, 2 vol. vellum Lugd. Bat. 1746 Manuscript. A most Valuable and Extensive Series of Alpha- betical Indexes, relative to the Birds of the Oriental Region (including Asia), Localities where found, Bible Birds, Austra- lian Region, West Indies (including the Neotropical Region), North America, Ethiopian Region, Bird World (English Names), Birds of Europe (Western Palearctic Region), Atlian History of Animals, Birds of the Poets, of Classical and Bibli- cal Authors, Shakespearian, &c. Game and Gallinaceous, in- cluding Cage, Singing, Aviary, Dovecot, and some of the most interesting Foreign Birds, Compendium of Ornithology, &c. the whole comprised in 16 volumes, boards, and half bound Sclater (P. L.) et O. Salvin: Nomenclator Avium Neotropicalium, 1873—HIllustrations of Zoology, nwmerous plates, ump. 4to, 1851(2)
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