A Monograph of the Coraciidae, or the family of the Rollers all text pages and chromolithographs

all text pages and chromolithographs are very bright and clean

and his outstanding career as educator and administrator

It was used in the early printing of some great flower books such as Thornton’s Temple of Flora (1799-1807)

A historically important and scarce title

A Monograph of the Coraciidae, or the family of the Rollers all text pages and chromolithographsPp. 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