Lot 418
Elliot, Daniel Giraud (after), "A Monograph of the Paradisiae or Birds of Paradise". A 1977...
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Lot 418
Elliot, Daniel Giraud (after), "A Monograph of the Paradisiae or Birds of Paradise". A 1977...
Lot 418
Lot Description
Elliot, Daniel Giraud (after), "A Monograph of the Paradisiae or Birds of Paradise". A 1977 facsimile edition double elephant folio of the seminal 1873 work, containing 17 (of 35) principally monochrome lithographic prints, a few heightened in gilt, in gilt-stamped half black morocco and grey cloth presentation case stamped SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE/ZAEHNSDORF, 20" x 25", (51cm x 63.5cm), together with a coloured lithographic print of 'Harpactes Ardens' after Gould & Richter.
Postage: Auction Default
Weight: No
Total lot weight: No
Condition Report
Plates present:
1. Generic Characters
4. Paradisea Minor
8. Manucodia Keraudreni
9. Astrapia Nigra
11. Lophorina Atra
12. Diphyllodes Speciosa (var. Chrysoptera)
15. Xanthomelus Aureus
16. Cicinnurus Regius
22. Seleucides Alba
25. Ptiloris Paradiseus
27. Sericulus Melinus
29. Ptilonorhynchus Rawnsleyi
30. Chlamydodera Maculata
32. Chlamydodera Cerviniventris
33. Chlamydodera Xanthogastra
34. Ailuraedus Crassirostris
37. Amblyornis Inornata
Some minor brown edge foxing/spotting to some plates, otherwise good.
Other entries retain notes only
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