Live veiling - Lot 1241
[Ornithology]
Svenska fåglar efter naturen och på sten ritade. Med text af Professor Einar Lönnberg. Andra upplagan.
Stockholm, Förlaget Svenska Fåglar, 1927-1929
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Beschrijving lot
3 vol., folio.
Publisher's marbled sheep, gilt rules and eagle device on covers, gilt-orn. spines with raised bands, marbled edges (somewhat rubbed, sl. discol.).
Standard work on Scandinavian ornithology. Ill. (complete) with 364 very fine coloured plates representing birds of Sweden (146, 109, 109) and b/w photogr. fig. in-text (eggs and nests). The work offers fine reproductions of the original 184 plates of the 1828-1838 edition, enlarged with 180 lithographs after paintings of the von Wright brothers and the Swedish artist Bror Hallberg. Deluxe limited edition (n. 574 for Erik Hellström).
Ref. Nissen (ZBI) 1026. - Anker 544. - COPAC.
Prov. Erik Hellström (blindstamp).