SEEBOHM (HENRY)


The Geographical Distribution of the Family Charadriidae, or the Plovers, Sandpipers, Snipes, and their Allies, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the list of plates before the addition of page numbers and frontispiece of slender-billed dotterel, 21 hand-coloured lithographed plates by Keulemans, illustrations in the text, uncut, publisher's green cloth gilt [Anker 455; Fine Bird Books, p.141; Nissen IVB 850; Wood, p.561; Zimmer, p.568, "The hand-coloured plates are excellent"], FINE COPY, 4to, Henry Sotheran, [1887]
|The first and best issue, of which "only 220 copies were printed for sale illustrated with coloured plates" (Sotheran's catalogue 815, 1929).Provenance: William Ogilvy Dalgleish of Errol (1832-1913), bookplate.