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(BIRDS -- CALIFORNIA.) Martin Heinrich Karl von Lichtenstein. Beitrag zur Ornithologischen Fauna von Californiennebst Bemerkungen über die Artkennzeichen der Pelicane und über einige Vögel von den Sandwich-Inseln. [iv], [35] pages (i.e. 417-451), and 5 hand-colored lithographed plates (two folding). 4to, 11x9 inches, modern half straight-grained morocco with gilt spine label; uncut; small tide mark to general title, otherwise very clean. Berlin: Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1840
Scarce separate offprint concerning the avifauna of California from "Physikalische Abhandlungen der Koniglichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin" - a presentation by the accomplished naturalist Lichtenstein to the German Academy of Sciences in 1838.
