A Monograph of the Coraciidae, or the family of the Rollers A historically important and scarce

A historically important and scarce title

61 numbers are bound individually in early uniform brown cloth

Falconer's observations of the evolutionary history preserved in the Siwalik strata--long periods of stasis followed by short periods of rapid change--led him to introduce the evolutionary theory known as punctuated equilibrium

the first was published in 1794 and the second part in 1795 – both parts have continuous pagination

all text pages and chromolithographs are very bright and clean

A Monograph of the Coraciidae, or the family of the Rollers A historically important and scarcePp. xx, 111, with 27 fine hand colored lithographic plates by and after J. G. Keulemans. Contemporary brown three quarter morocco leather, spine has five raised bands lettered in gilt in three compartments, and with gilt decorative devices in four other compartments, richly marble endpapers, top page edges in gilt, folio (15 x 11. 5 inches; 380 x 290 mm). This scarce monograph was issued in a limited edition of 250 copies only. The rollers are an Old