Shelley (George Ernest . A Monograph of the Nectariniidae, or Family of Sun-Birds, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: published by the author, 1876-1880, cviii [394] pp., 121 hand-coloured lithographic plates by J. G. Keulemans, heightened in gum arabic, spotting to a handful of plates (e.g. 8, 100, 121) and occasionally to text, a few marginal spots elsewhere, tiny marginal nick to final plate (121), marbled endpapers, inner dentelles gilt, contemporary bookseller's ticket (G. W. Holdich, Hull) to front pastedowns, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, contemporary dark blue calf, spines richly gilt in compartments with dove motifs, twin red morocco labels, concentric dogtooth and French fillet frames gilt to covers enclosing bird-and-urn motifs to corners, tips bumped, 4to (32.4 x 24.2 cm) (Qty: 2) THE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Fine Bird Books p. 142; Nissen IVB 873; Wood p. 566; Zimmer p. 588 (‘An excellent monograph of an interesting family of birds’). ‘An important monograph which appeared in twelve parts. A total of 138 species of the group are recognized, all of which, except one, are figured on fine-hand-colored plates by J. G. Keulemans, who was himself acquainted with these small birds in their native haunts, and whose notes on the Sun-birds inhabiting Prince’s Island have been incorporated in the work’ (Wood). The list of contents calls for four pages of descriptive text for each of plates 5 and 55 (Nectarinia famosa and Cinnyris zenobia), but six and two pages respectively appears to be the correct count.
Shelley (George Ernest . A Monograph of the Nectariniidae, or Family of Sun-Birds, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: published by the author, 1876-1880, cviii [394] pp., 121 hand-coloured lithographic plates by J. G. Keulemans, heightened in gum arabic, spotting to a handful of plates (e.g. 8, 100, 121) and occasionally to text, a few marginal spots elsewhere, tiny marginal nick to final plate (121), marbled endpapers, inner dentelles gilt, contemporary bookseller's ticket (G. W. Holdich, Hull) to front pastedowns, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, contemporary dark blue calf, spines richly gilt in compartments with dove motifs, twin red morocco labels, concentric dogtooth and French fillet frames gilt to covers enclosing bird-and-urn motifs to corners, tips bumped, 4to (32.4 x 24.2 cm) (Qty: 2) THE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Fine Bird Books p. 142; Nissen IVB 873; Wood p. 566; Zimmer p. 588 (‘An excellent monograph of an interesting family of birds’). ‘An important monograph which appeared in twelve parts. A total of 138 species of the group are recognized, all of which, except one, are figured on fine-hand-colored plates by J. G. Keulemans, who was himself acquainted with these small birds in their native haunts, and whose notes on the Sun-birds inhabiting Prince’s Island have been incorporated in the work’ (Wood). The list of contents calls for four pages of descriptive text for each of plates 5 and 55 (Nectarinia famosa and Cinnyris zenobia), but six and two pages respectively appears to be the correct count.
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