Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America Latham was the first to

Latham was the first to describe a number of important Australian species such as the lyre-bird

and Edouard Marie Heckel

17 full page plates - 15 are beautiful chromolithograph plates finished by hand and heightened with gum-arabic by Bocourt and lithographed by Mesnel (each plate has an accompanying page of descriptive text)

The work provides a catalogue of reptiles seen on a journey through North America

This is the classic early work on the living and fossil echinoderms by Louis Agassiz that was printed privately

Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America Latham was the first toPp. viii, 298; 50 splendid hand colored lithographic plates. Later one half black morocco leather, spine with 5 raised bands, lettered in gilt on two compartments and decorated with gilt rectangular patterns highlighted with small feathers in the remaining 4 compartments, over green marbled boards with matching green marbled endpapers, lg 8vo (10. 75 x 7. 5 inches). This is the second edition of John Cassins beautifully illustrated work on Western