Live veiling - Lot 679
[Ornithology]
Svenska fåglar efter naturen och på sten ritade. Med text af Professor Einar Lönnberg. Andra upplagan.
Stockholm, Förlaget Svenska Fåglar, 1927-1929
€ 250 / 400
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Beschrijving lot
3 vol., folio.
Publisher's marbled sheep, gilt rules and ornam. (eagle device) on covers (some scratches on covers, sl. discol.), gilt orn. spines on 5 raised bands (somewhat rubbed), marbled edges, marbled endpapers.
Standard work on Scandinavian ornithology. Ill. (complete) with 364 very fine chromolithogr. 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.
Ref. Nissen 1026. - Anker 544. - COPAC.