Item #020353 Manual of the Birds of New Zealand. Walter Lowry BULLER.

Manual of the Birds of New Zealand

Wellington: Government Printer, 1882. First Edition. 8vo. Original Decorated Cloth/Gilt. pp xii, 107,Complete with frontis. 39 lithographed plates (numbered I, IA...XXXVI). Original purple cloth. Four relevant newspaper cuttings tipped in. Describes 176 species. The plates are reproductions from the drawings by Keulemans for the first edition of 'Buller's Birds'. This work has become a rarity, as it is the first showing of Buller's famous 1873 work. Very Good. Item #020353

Price: $1,500.00 NZD

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