[Rarebooks] FS: DIE VÖGEL DEUTSCH-OST-AFRIKAS, 1894, with Hand-colored Illustrations

[Charles Agvent]

One of several fine ornithological titles from our new catalog--SUMMER 
MISCELLANY 2014--which contains 127 select items, all new arrivals, in a 
variety of fields. Highlights include the scarce First Issue of 
Shakespeare's POEMS [1709] in a beautiful Cosway binding; Thoreau's 
WORKS with a leaf of manuscript mentioning Walden Pond; one of 25 
special copies of the Gregynog Aesop; Louise Bryant's acting copy of 
Eugene O'Neill's first book along with several John Reed association 
copies; a long run of signed and limited Raymond Carver titles; the 
first book of music by a Native American; a lengthy unpublished 
manuscript about Alaskan gold by poet Joaquin Miller; several 
ornithological works including Brisson's ORNITHOLOGIE, Lewin's BIRDS OF 
GREAT BRITAIN, most with beautiful hand-colored plates, and others; some 
scarce modern poetry and signed presidential books; signed copies of 
Emerson's POEMS, Rachel Carson's SILENT SPRING; and much more.


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REICHENOW, Anton. DIE VÖGEL DEUTSCH-OST-AFRIKAS. Berlin: Geographische 
Verlagshandlung Dietrich Reimer, 1894. First Edition. Quarto (7-1/2" x 
11") in publisher's original limp boards, gilt-lettered on the front 
cover and spine; [4], 250, [2] pages. The Birds of German East Africa 
illustrated with 106 figures in the text drawn from nature by Anna Held, 
43 of which are delicately hand-colored. Rather scarce. Bookplate of the 
Field Museum of Natural History on the front pastedown with both 
cancelled and withdrawn small ink stamps to the title page. Covers 
rubbed; book cocked. Contents about Fine. (#017486)        $500.00

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