Genera avium.

26 parts in 1 vol. folio: 42 (of 43) pls. with explanatory texts of varying importance (text n.c., some pls. sl. worn).

Cont. threequarter burgondy cloth, red marbled paper boards, flat spine.

Massive work directed by the Belgian ornithologist and entomologist, Wytsman (1866-1925) and accomplished in collaboration with major European specialists such as P.L. Sclater, R. Bowdler Sharpe, W.R. Ogilvie-Grant, E. Hartert, C.E. Hellmayr and T. Salvadori. Copy ill. with 42 splendid colourful chromolithographs of birds including plates of parrots. Ref. Nissen (IVB) 182. - Nissen (BBI) 1028. - Not in Anker.