Author: SCHLEGEL, H.,
Title: De Vogels van Nederlandsch-Indië, beschreven en afgebeeld/Les Oiseaux des Indes Neérlandaises, décrits et figurés. [Eerste druk; First edition].
Description: Leiden-Amsterdam-Haarloem, Brill & Funke, [1863-]., 1866. 3 vols. in slip-case. Small 4°, original cloth, 38, (1, verso blank, index), 79,(3); 68, (2, index of plates)pp. of bi-lingual text in dutchj and french including captions to plates. With tog. 60 very fine handcoloured lithographed plates depicting in total 205 species of Dutch East Indies' Birds. LANDWEHR, 171; RUINEN, C.169. Incomplete set called-for in Library Royal Dutch Insgiute of Linguistics and Anhropology, KITLV. (calls for part 3 only). A very rare work describing & depicting birds of the Netherlands East Indies. A good copy in original cloth. (bds. skilfully restored at spine, endpapers somewh. soiled).

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