Keulemans (John Gerard). A Natural History of Cage Birds, parts 1 - 3 (only of 4), 1871

Keulemans (John Gerrard). A Natural History of Cage Birds, Parts 1-3 (of 4) only, 1st edition, London: John Van Voorst, [1871], 3 parts bound in one, title-page, 82 pages of text, 18 fine hand-coloured lithographed plates, original printed wrapper to first part bound in at front, single-leaf prospectus, and printed wrappers to second and third parts bound in at rear, top edge gilt, bookplate of John Buchanan Kinshaw, contemporary gilt blind-panelled sprinkled full calf, a little rubbed to joints and edges, upper hinge and joint weak, small folio (sheet size 28.7 x 19 cm)

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Mullens & Swann, page 327 "exceptionally fine plates"; Nissen IVB 492; Sitwell (1990), page 111. Only 4 parts of a projected 20 were issued.

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