Beschreibung:

Birds.- Strickland (H. E.) and A. G. Melville. The Dodo and its Kindred, first edition, list of subscribers, 18 lithograph plates, 2 hand-coloured, 1 folding, illustrations, errata slip, some foxing to plates and one lightly water-stained, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine faded and torn at head, covers marked and partially sunned, 4to, 1848. ⁂ Original subscriber's copy of this important and ground-breaking work, which was based on the dissection of the preserved head and foot of a stuffed Dodo at Oxford University Museum. The list of subscribers includes Sir William Jardine Rev. F. O. Morris, William Yarrell, P.J. Selby, W. H. Lizars and John Gould Loosely inserted is an A.L.s. by the author (Strickland) to John Wolley, discussing the book and with a warm heading on the first page: "To John Wolley Esq. A slight return for his friendly aid in the preparation of the present work. H. E. Strickland. Sep. 26 1848."