Abbildung und Beschreibung blühender Cacteen. Figures des Cactées en fleur peintes et lithographiées d'après nature (two volumes complete bound in one volume) Image is of a Short-toed

Image is of a Short-toed Ptarmigan

lettered in gilt on the spine and with gilt panel lines

120 color photographs

states: “Although the book was published in London

“Probably no other ornithologist of his day had such a knowledge of the literature of the subject” (DAB)

Abbildung und Beschreibung blühender Cacteen. Figures des Cactées en fleur peintes et lithographiées d'après nature (two volumes complete bound in one volume) Image is of a Short-toedPp. 150+, 60 hand colored plates (plate 14 in the second volume is in fine color facsimile), the original printed blue wrappers are bound in place for the parts in volume 2, many original tissue guards are in place. Each plate is accompanied by 2 3 leaves of descriptive text. Early one half black morocco leather, spine with five raised bands and lettered in gilt in three compartments, over green cloth covered boards, green tinted marbled endpapers,