A monograph of the cranes

by F. E Blaauw

$9,500 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

Leiden and London: Brill & Porter, 1897. Folio. viii, 64, 3 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 22 chromo-lithographed plates. Original publisher’s pictorial green cloth, title in gilt to spine and top cover, with patterned end-papers; edges stained green. Label pasted on to the front paste-down indicating that this copy is No. 26 of 170 copies of this edition, with the stamp of the Librairie et Imprimerie ci-divant E.J.

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