1) Merops Bicolor [Rufous-crowned Bee-eater]; 2) Merops Sumatranus [Blue-throated Bee-eater]

Name: 1) Merops Bicolor [Rufous-crowned Bee-eater]; 2) Merops Sumatranus [Blue-throated Bee-eater]
SKU: 62629

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Author: Arthur Hay, Marquis of Tweeddale [author] / William Howard Russell [co-author] / Robert George Ramsay / Wardlaw [ed] / Joseph Smit [artist] / John Gerrard Keulemans [artist]

Publisher: written by Arthur Hay, the Marquis of Tweeddale, & William Howard Russell, and edited by Robert George Ramsay; with plates drawn by Joseph Smit and John Gerrard Keulemans, London.

Year: 1881 [1875]

Size: 18.4 x 21.1 cm

Reference: Nissen IVB, 418 under A. Hay; Nissen Vogelbuecher, 419; Sitwell-B. 149; Anker 513; BM Natural History, 804; Zimmer 293; Wood 605.

SKU: 62629 Categories: Antique Natural Sciences Prints, Antique Ornithology Prints [birds] Tags: Ornithology 8, Philippine Birds 3

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original hand-colour lithograph RARE ornithological print from “The Ornithological Works”, Pl. 24. This rare book contains beautiful and large plate illustrations of the most exotic birds of the Philippine Islands.