Egyptian Neophron (Neophron percnopterus) Hand Colored Plate printed pictorial dust jacket

printed pictorial dust jacket

Great Flower Books (1990)

He did not return to South Africa until March 1775

This fourth volume is the complete work on the fishes

Early brown half-calf leather

Egyptian Neophron (Neophron percnopterus) Hand Colored Plate printed pictorial dust jacketHand colored lithographic plate, approximately 10. 25 inches wide by 14 inches long. From: Meyer, H. L., Illustrations of British Birds, lithographer H. L. Meyer, 1839. Image is taken from the Longman and Co. gilt edge folio edition of Meyer's Coloured Illustrations of British Birds and their Eggs which was published 1835 1841, see W. G. Hale. Image is of an Egyptian neophron or white scavenger vulture or pharaoh's chicken. Publisher Longman and Co.