$123
Bird Prints, Nineteen. A group of hand-colored illustrations of birds, including Glottis Canescens , by J. Gould and H.C. Richter, impensis Walter; plate XL from William Frederic Martyn's A New Dictionary of Natural History , London: Harrison, 1785, a hand-colored engraving of ducks and a shell; The Great Black Duck from Hudson's Bay , from George Edwards' A Natural History of Uncommon Birds , 1749, hand-colored; fourteen hand-colored plates from the Encyclopaedia Londinensis , c. 1826; and two mid-19th century hand-colored prints of Scoters. (19)
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2016-10-30