[Ornithology] Collection of 42 plates from Die Naturgeschichte der Vögel Mitteleuropas

(Johann Friedrich Naumann. Gera, Fr. Eugen Köhler, 1896-1905. 2nd enl. ed.). Beautiful chromolithographic plates from the famous Naumann series, showing birds such as the Greater Flamingo, Bald Eagle, Bittern, Eurasian Spoonbill and numerous other fowls, waterfowl and falcons, by artists such as Keulemans, Geisler and Kleindschmidt. Most with printed description in lower margin, all mounted in passe-partouts and with transparent covers, 36 x 24.5 cm, passe-partouts 50 x 40 cm.

1 double. Very fine collection of the renewed and enlarged edition of Naumann's brightly coloured plates on European birds. (total 42)