SEEBOHM Henry
£4,500
Auction: 21 July 2004 at 11:30 BST
Description
A monograph of the turdidae or family of thrushes … edited and completed by R. Bowdler Sharpe … 1st edition, 2 volumes, port. frontis., 149 hand coloured plates, full blue morocco, the covers panelled with elaborate gilt floral borders within gilt filets, with the arms of Edward 4th Baron Sherborne on the upper covers, the spines decorated gilt within compartments, inner gilt doublures, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., with the bookplate of Sherborne Library, offsetting from the port. frontis. to the titlepage of vol. 1, some instances of light spotting, folio, London: Sotheran, [1898] -1902 [2]
Note: Nissen *** 852
Footnote
Provenance: Purchased Henry Sotheran Ltd, 43 Piccadilly, London, December 1929