Author: Sclater, P. L.
Title: Catalogue of the birds in the collection of the British Museum. Volume XV [15]. Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds, in the collection of the British Museum. Tracheophonae, or the families Dendrocolaptidae, Formicariidae, Conopophagidae, and Pteroptochidae.
Description: London, The Trustees of the British Museum, 1890. 8vo (22.1 x 14.1 cm). xviii, 372, 8 pp., 20 fine, hand-coloured or chromolithographed plates. Original blind stamped cloth with gilt title on the spine. = Single part (among the best illustrated) of the three-volume Passeriformes section of this famous series. With superb illustrations by the famous Dutch bird painter Joseph Smit (1836-1929), who was at least as good as his colleague and fellow countryman, John Gerrard Keulemans. Toned British Museum presentation label on the front free endpaper recto. Front board top corner a bit bumped, spine top a bit frayed, half-title partly toned, otherwise very good, clean and unmarked. A very good copy. Usually found "ex library", but this is the rare exception. Goode (1896) The Published Writings of Philip Lutley Sclater, 22; Nissen IVB, 175; 838; Zimmer, pp. 95-98.

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