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Various publications, 1842 - 1851. A large bound collection of papers by Blyth amounting to several hundred pages . Bound in half brown calf, with the boards somewhat rubbed. Contents generally in good to very good condition (some light foxing). Many of the papers are inscribed by Blyth to E L Layard. They subsequently came back into Blyth's possession, and are extensively annotated by him. Blyth was curator of the Museum of the Asiatic Society for 20 years, and most of his output relates to India and adjoining countries. A unique association item of this highly regarded naturalist. The contents are as follows: (1) Plan of an Indian Ornithology (1848, 7pp). (2) Fam Cypselidae (1848, 19pp, addendum). (3) Supplement to memoir on Cypselidae (1849, 7pp). (4) Fam Hirundinidae (1849, 12pp). (5) Barbets (12pp, c. 1846). (6) A monograph of the Indian and Malayan species of Cuculidae (1842, 32pp). (7) Cuckoos (46pp). (8) The Pomatorhinus group (8pp). (9) Fam Motacillidae (1849, 18pp). (10) The third tribe of the Picae may well be termed Heterodactyli (1847, 10pp). (11) Drafts for a fauna Indica (1845, 34pp). (12) On the Leiotrichane birds of the Subhemalayas (by B H Hodgson, 31pp). (13) Notes on various Indian and Malayan birds (1842, 37pp). (14) Appendix to Mr Blyth's report for December meeting 1842 (1844, 35pp). (15) Report of Curator, Zoological Department (1852, 21pp). (16) Report on the mammalia and more remarkable species of birds inhabiting Ceylon (1851, 33pp). (17) Report of Curator (1847, 10pp). (18) Report on the collection of Australian Vertebrata contained in the Museum of the Asiatic Society, Calcutta (1848, 49pp). (19) Report of Curator (1849, 9pp). (20) Notes and descriptions of various new or little known specied of birds, part II (1845, 58pp). (21) Notices and descriptions of various new or little known species of birds (1846, 36pp). (22) Notices and descriptions of various new or little known species of birds (1847, 41pp). (23) Notes on the fauna of the Nicobar Islands (13pp). (24) Remarks on the modes of variation of nearly affined species or races of birds (1850, 9pp). (25-27) Conspectus of the ornithology of India, Burma, and the Malayan peninsula (1850, 11pp; 26pp; 17pp). (28) Descriptions of three Indian species of bat of the genus Taphozous (1841, 6pp). (29) A monograph of the species of wild sheep (32pp). (30) Descriptive notice of the bat described as Taphozous longimanus (by Gen Hardwicke, 3pp). (31) Sketches in natural history, the real elk or moose (19pp). (32) Note on the Sciuri inhabiting Ceylon, and those of the Tenasserim provinces (1849, 4pp). (33) Description of a new species of mole, Talpa leucura (3pp).

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