Albino White-tailed Sea Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla

by Nicolas Robert

$35,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

An outstanding example of the work of Nicolas Robert, the greatest natural history artist of the seventeenth century, from the celebrated Marcel Jeanson collection. The monumental White-tailed Sea Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla , here shown with a completely white plumage, was among the largest raptors known to early modern Europeans, a coastal and estuarine hunter ranging from northern Europe to the Caspian. Albino examples were prized rarities in seventeenth-century natural

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