Dec 05, 2017 - Sale 2464

Sale 2464 - Lot 318

Price Realized: $ 7,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
DRESSER, HENRY EELES. A Monograph of the Meropidae, or Family of Bee-Eaters. 34 hand-colored lithographed plates by J.G. Keulemans, heightened with gum arabic. Small folio, 14 3/4x11 inches, half green morocco minimally rubbed, gutta-percha failing with several quires loose if not detached; light foxing affecting the occasional plate; several North Devon Athenaeum ink stamps in unobtrusive places. Fine Bird Books, page 92; Nissen IVB 269. London, 1884-1886