Bidspirit auction | Sclater's Curassows - Volume 9

Sclater's Curassows - Volume 9 with 21 Originally Hand-Colored Lithographs - This volume with 21 lithographs is Philip Lutley Sclater’s The Curassows . The work was published in London in 1875 by Longmans, Green, Reader, Dyer. This is volume 9, part 4 of the series. The book is bound in quarter leather with a gilt text spine and marbled board. There are 21 originally colored lithographs. Philip Lutley Sclater (1829-1913) was an English ornithologist. The zoogeographic regions that he developed are still in use, albeit expanded upon by later zoologists. Provenance: Owned by Professor William Gardner Hale, top British authority on wading birds Paper Size: ~ 12 1/2 by 9 7/8” Paper Type or Special Features: Volume 9 with 21 Originally Hand-Colored Lithographs