A monograph of the tetraoninae, or family of the grouse

by Daniel Giraud Elliot

$24,000 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

New York: Published by the Author, 1865. Folio 581 x 461 mm . 19 pp., including list of subscribers 65 names for 71 copies . FIRST EDITION. With 27 fine hand-colored lithographic mounted on guards, all by C.F. Tholey after Elliot and J. Wolf with the exception of 2 hand-colored plates of eggs after W.S. Morgan, all printed by Bowen & Co. of Philadelphia. Contemporary half green morocco, edges and corners worn;

  • Binding: Leather

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