Birds.- Strickland (H. E.) and A. G. Melville. The Dodo and its Kindred, first edition, list of subscribers, 18 lithographed plates, 2 hand-coloured (one heightened with gum arabic) and one folding panorama, wood-engraved illustrations, errata slip, tissue guards, light marginal foxing to a few plates but hand-coloured ones bright and clean, original pictorial blue cloth, gilt, spine a little faded, corners and lower joint slightly rubbed, [Anker 486; Nissen IVB 900; Fine Bird Books p.145], 4to, 1848. ⁂ Important and ground-breaking work, 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, P.L.Sclater and John Gould
Birds.- Strickland (H. E.) and A. G. Melville. The Dodo and its Kindred, first edition, list of subscribers, 18 lithographed plates, 2 hand-coloured (one heightened with gum arabic) and one folding panorama, wood-engraved illustrations, errata slip, tissue guards, light marginal foxing to a few plates but hand-coloured ones bright and clean, original pictorial blue cloth, gilt, spine a little faded, corners and lower joint slightly rubbed, [Anker 486; Nissen IVB 900; Fine Bird Books p.145], 4to, 1848. ⁂ Important and ground-breaking work, 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, P.L.Sclater and John Gould
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