Author: Meyer, H. L.
Title: Bird plates. American cuckoo, Coccyzus americanis Bonap.
Description: London, the author, ca. 1835. Folio (37.5 x 27.5 cm). Well-preserved hand-painted engraving of a bird in its natural surroundings. = This is a lovely hand-coloured plate from the finest and most complete atlas of portraits of British avifauna ever published. Drawn and printed for the author, the Dutch-born British ornithologist Henry Meyer, and finely coloured by his wife Mary Anne or one of their daughters. This print is in excellent condition. Small tear on middle right hand side. Some faint and occasional spotting. No creases, dents or other tears present.

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