The natural history of the nectariniadae, or sun-birds

by William Jardine

$250 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars, 1843. 8vo. xv, 17-277 pp. FIRST EDITION. With engraved frontispiece portrait, 29 of 30 colored engraved plates, title page and separate hand-colored illustrated title, author’s advertising, text illustrations. Original cloth with gilt decoration on cover and gilt lettering on spine, small stain to front cover and spine sunned; interior excellent. From the Library of Dr. James M. Dolan Jr. with

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