Lot 487: HERMANN SCHLEGEL (1804-1884)

HERMANN SCHLEGEL (1804-1884)
De Vogels van Nederlandsch Indië...Les Oiseaux des Indes Néêrlanda ises. Leiden: E.J. Brill, and Amsterdam: G.L. Funke, [1863-1866].

3 parts in one vol., 4° (370 x 232mm) 50 hand-coloured lithographic plates, 2 or 3 images to each plate, lithographed by P.W.M. Trap, some signed by Joseph Smit. (Text generally browned, some leaves brittle or chipped at fore-edge, plates lightly browned, library stamp removed from first leaf, erasure from title-page.) Publisher's green cloth gilt.

FINE ORNITHOLOGICAL PLATES from watercolours by the co-author of the section on zoology in Tremminck's Natuurlijke geschiedenis der nederlandsche overzeesche 1839-47 (g.v.). Sitwell Fine Bird Books p.139; Haks and Maris p.237; Bastin & Brommer p.15; Landwehr, Dutch Colour Plates 166.

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