Resultados de búsqueda: portraits of rare and curious birds de william hayes

First volume only of the two-volume set with 100 plates published from 1794 to 1799.56 finely hand-colored etched and stipple- and line-engraved plates, heightened with gum arabic, by William Hayes and members of his family. {The family worked chaotically, issuing volumes with different numbers of plates to subscribers.} With two unnumbered plates (the Erne and King of the Vultures) and 54 numbered plates (Pl. 3 to Pl. 56) with their text pages.Second edition of this work on the birds of the famous menagerie at Osterley Park commissioned by the banker and politician Robert Child. Child may have obtained some of the exotic species from Asia and Africa from his business with the East India Company.The birds include endangered species such as the purple-naped lory, Lorius domicella 27, blue-headed quail-dove, Starnoenas cyanocephala 41, horned currasow, Pauxi unicornis 49 and critically endangered yellow-crested cockatoo, Cacatua sulphurea 56.Hayes was the first author to record a single private… Leer más

Two volumes in one. Bound in early twentieth century half green morocco over green cloth boards. Five raised bands with gilt particulars to spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. From the library of H. Bradley Martin with his modest bookplate to front pastedown. Includes Sotheby's lot-bookmark from the famous sale. As is common, this volume lacks the title preliminaries to volume two. Complete with 101 attractive hand colored full-page plates. Plate 19-26, 35-36, and 83-86 are bound out of order. Other than Bradley's plate, no previous owners' names or other defacements.

London: Printed By W. Bulmer and Co, and Published for the Author Two volumes bound as one, and includes the original very scarce title page and dedication pages for volume II. Volume I was published in 1794 and volume II in 1799. 101 full page, hand colored, illustrations plates, with at least 18 being signed and dated by the artist. Original boards retained, and recased in full polished leather with raised spine bands, gilt stamped lettering and decoration, and hand tooled border over boards. Original hand tooled leather edge inside covers, and marbled end leaves. Bound by J. Bohn, No 31 Frith St., Soho, London. Blank end leaves are slightly soiled. Occasional light smudges and very slight foxing. Occasional very slight offsetting of coloring onto text. Collated and complete, with all plates being very good to near fine. Beautiful and bright. An exceptional example of this very scarce and desirable title. . First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to.