Honey Buzzard (Pernis apivorus) Hand Colored Plate Publisher’s original black cloth

Publisher’s original black cloth

spine with two dark-red morocco labels lettered in gilt for the title and date and with seven pairs of gilt panel lines

Johann Sebastian Mueller was born in Nuremberg but moved permanently to England in 1744 changing his name to Miller

numerous black-and-white photos

William Hitchcock

Honey Buzzard (Pernis apivorus) Hand Colored Plate Publisher’s original black clothHand colored lithographic plate, approximately 10. 25 inches wide by 14 inches long. From: Meyer, H. L., Illustrations of British Birds, lithographer H. L. Meyer. Image is taken from the Longman and Co. gilt edge folio edition of Meyer's Coloured Illustrations of British Birds and their Eggs which was published 1835 1841, see W. G. Hale. Image is of a honey buzzard in immature plumage and egg. Publisher Longman and Co. Publisher Place London Date