Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds 1823 text-figures (halftones

1823 text-figures (halftones

a contribution from Kew Royal Botanic Gardens

California Date Published 1996 Date Published Estimated No Edition First edition Number of Volumes 1 Reprint Condition Fine Condition Description A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with no signs of use

keep and breed them and which diseases may occasionally occur (modified after the rear cover blurb)

Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds 1823 text-figures (halftonesPp. xxii, 485, 9 color plates, 32 black and white plates, 22 maps, numerous text figures and end paper map of New Guniea. Publishers original forest green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, color pictorial black dust jacket lettered in white on the spine and front panel, lg 8vo. This volume includes a synopsis of the history of discovery of New Guinea and of the collecting birds of paradise and bowerbirds from the earliest plume collectors to the