Keulemans | A Natural History of Cage Birds, 1871

[KEULEMANS, JOHN GERRARD
A Natural History of Cage Birds. London, 1871]

FIRST EDITION, 4 parts, large 8vo (282 x 182mm.), 24 hand-coloured lithographed plates, 113pp. text (without title or preliminary leaves, as issued), contemporary red half morocco, green pebbled boards, very minor scattered staining

Only 4 parts of a planned 20 were issued.

LITERATURE:
Nissen IVB 492

Condition Report:
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