Gallus Sonneratii Grey Junglefowl

by Joseph Wolf

$4,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A beautiful image from the most splendid of Elliot's great monographs, 'A Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of the Pheasants'. The magnificent size and beautiful colouring of the plates after Joseph Wolf's charcoal drawings reflect the importance which Elliot attached to the Phasianidae. Of all the families in the ornithological system, he regarded it as the one most vital to the human race, containing within it the species that afford food for thousands of mankind, and

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