Lot 101: With excellent hand-colored plates by Keulemans

SEEBOHM, HENRY, and RICHARD BOWDLER SHARPE.

A Monograph of the Turdidae, or Family of Thrushes. London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1902. Two volumes in three. Contemporary three-quarters leather over cloth. 15 x 11 1/2 inches (38 x 29 cm); frontispiece portrait, 149 hand-colored lithographed plates J. G. Keulemans. Ex-library with perforated stamps to titles and stamps to plate versos, other markings, the plates clean, the bindings nearly defective with losses and split hinges, sold with all faults.

Anker 458: Fine Bird Books p. 106, noting that 120 plates were published by the end of 1900; Nissen IVB 852; Wood p. 561; Zimmer p. 570 'the hand-coloured plates by Keulemans are excellent'