Lot 1031
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Svenska fåglar efter naturen och på sten ritade. Med text af Professor Einar Lönnberg. Andra upplagan.
LÖNNBERG, Einar
€ 600 / 800
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Lot description
Stockholm, Förlaget Svenska Fåglar, 1927-1929
3 vol., folio.
Publisher's marbled sheep, gilt rules and eagle device on covers (some scratches on covers, sl. discol.), gilt-orn. spines with 5 raised bands (somewhat rubbed), marbled edges, marbled endpapers.
Standard work on Scandinavian ornithology. Ill. (complete) with 364 very fine coloured plates representing birds of Sweden (146, 109, 109) and b/w photogr. fig. in text (eggs and nests). The work offers fine reproductions of the original 184 plates of the 1828-1838 edition, enlarged with 180 lithographs after paintings of the von Wright brothers and the Swedish artist Bror Hallberg. De luxe limited edition (n. 574 for Erik Hellström).
Ref. Nissen 1026. - Anker 544. - COPAC.
Prov. Erik Hellström (blindstamp).