[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce Portfolio of Greene's PARROTS IN CAPTIVITY with 79 Color Plates

[Charles Agvent]

 From our new catalog: Summer Miscellany with 85 select items in a 
variety of fields.  See the catalog here: 
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GREENE, W. T. PARROTS IN CAPTIVITY. London: George Bell and Sons, 1884. 
First Edition. A portfolio containing the title page and 79 lovely color 
xylographic plates (6-3/4" x 10") with hand-coloring, some heightened 
with gum arabic, of macaws, cockatoos, lories, parrots, parakeets, and 
lovebirds. Typically these plates are found in a three-volume set with 
text and 81 plates published between 1884 and 1887. This portfolio with 
loose plates and no text is complete with 79 plates as stated on the 
title page. We could find only a handful of examples of this portfolio 
in auction records. Intended primarily as a guide for those interested 
in keeping parrots as pets, the publisher spared neither pains nor 
expense to make the work as attractive as possible. A few plates with 
light foxing in the margins and a bent corner here or there, some plates 
trimmed closer than others, but overall bright and clean and quite 
scarce in this format.

For the book publication: FINE BIRD BOOKS, page 103; NISSEN 393; ZIMMER, 
page 274. (#018527)        $4,500.00

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