Richard Bowdler Sharpe & Claude Willmott Wyatt: 'A Monograph...

Hammer

£200

Richard Bowdler Sharpe & Claude Willmott Wyatt: 'A Monograph of the Hirundinidae, Family of Swallows', London, for the authors, 1885-1894, 2 volumes, 98 (of 103) lithograph plates & 13 (of 26) maps, but with the missing plates and maps supplied in facsimile, of the 98 original lithographic plates, 12 hand coloured, 87 uncoloured, plates after Claude Willmott Wyatt, large 4to (32 x 25cm), uniform contemporary half calf gilt, tope edges gilt, endpapers/pastedowns replenished. A detailed monograph of all the known species of swallows. Scarce (2)