London: Published for the Author, 1830-1832. Lithograph with original hand color, 360 x 530 mm, framed size 650 x 820 mm. A few trivial spots of foxing, a magnificent plate well-framed. § Lear was renowned as one of Britain's finest ornithological artists before his nonsense verse was ever known. The..... More
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[circa 1849-87]. Two hand-colored lithographs, 14 1/2 x 21 1/4”, both with a second leaf of text; matted, very good and ready for framing. § Plates 236 and 260 with original corresponding text from A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Humming-Birds, Volume 4. Plates lithographed after John Gould..... More
New York: Stringer & Townsend, 222 Broadway, 1856. 8vo, 425 pp. plus 6 pp. publisher’s catalogue. With six coloured illustrations by John Leech. Original blind-stamped publisher’s cloth, vignette of fox-hunting gilt-stamped on upper cover and in blind on lower cover, backstrip gilt-stamped with titles and sporting motifs, yellow endpapers. Somewhat..... More
No date [circa 1810-1825]. 7 original watercolors on individual sheets (c.180 x 220 mm), handwritten notes in ink on versos recording the name of the animal in English, French and Latin, and, in some cases, comments on its appearance and habits, matted alike. Marginal browning, seemingly caused by the mats..... More
