The Avifauna of Laysan and the neighbouring islands: with a complete history to date of the birds of the Hawaiian possessions

by Walter Rothschild

$35,000 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

London: R.H. Porter, 1893-1900. Three parts in one. Folio. ii , xx, xiv, 226; 227-320, 21 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 83 plates, including 55 hand-colored lithograph plates by and after J.G. Keulemans and F.W. Frowhawk, 20 collotype plates from photographs including one duplicate plate “Group of Four White Albatrosses” , and 8 monochrome plates, all tissue guards present. Red half-morocco and cloth boards, minor

• Binding: Leather

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