The birds of Daniel Giraud Elliot : a selection of pheasants and peacocks painted by Joseph Wolf, and taken from the original monograph published in New York, 1872
The birds of Daniel Giraud Elliot : a selection of pheasants and peacocks painted by Joseph Wolf, and taken from the original monograph published in New York, 1872
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Very Good in Good dust jacket. Hardcover. Elefant Folio. Volair, Kent, Ohio, 1979. Unpaginated (59 pgs). Illustrated with 12 color plates. #852 of a limited edition of 1000 copies. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (stain present to the rear board). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Daniel Giraud Elliot (March 7, 1835 – December 22, 1915) was an American zoologist and the founder of the American Ornithologist Union. Elliot used his wealth to publish a series of sumptuous color-plate books on birds and other animals. Elliot wrote the text himself and commissioned artists such as Joseph Wolf and Joseph Smit, both of whom had worked for John Gould, to provide the illustrations. The books included A Monograph of the Phasianidae (Family of the Pheasants) (1870–72), A Monograph of the Paradiseidae or Birds of Paradise (1873), A Monograph of the Felidae or Family of Cats (1878) and Review of the Primates (1913). EB; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 0 pages.
