SELBY, Prideaux, THE NATURAL HISTORY OF PARROTS
SELBY, Prideaux, THE NATURAL HISTORY OF PARROTS
Prideaux Selby, The Natural History of Parrots (W.H. Lizars, Edinburgh [etc.], 1836)
Sextodecimo, engraved frontispiece portrait of Thomas Bewick, engraved title with hand-coloured vignette of a Leadbeater's (or Major Mitchell) cockatoo and a Swindern's lovebird, memoir of Thomas Bewick, and thirty hand-coloured engraved plates of parrots (including several Australian) drawn by Edward Lear, each with descriptive text (apparently complete but the title calling for thirty-two plates), contemporary blocked green morocco with gilt-lettered and decorated spine, a.e.g.
SELBY, Prideaux, THE NATURAL HISTORY OF PARROTS
Prideaux Selby, The Natural History of Parrots (W.H. Lizars, Edinburgh [etc.], 1836)
Sextodecimo, engraved frontispiece portrait of Thomas Bewick, engraved title with hand-coloured vignette of a Leadbeater's (or Major Mitchell) cockatoo and a Swindern's lovebird, memoir of Thomas Bewick, and thirty hand-coloured engraved plates of parrots (including several Australian) drawn by Edward Lear, each with descriptive text (apparently complete but the title calling for thirty-two plates), contemporary blocked green morocco with gilt-lettered and decorated spine, a.e.g.
