Magpie and Bittern Eggs Hand Colored Plate where he and Cautley excavated

where he and Cautley excavated an enormous variety of now-extinct specimens

lettered in black on the spine and front cover

folio (14 x 10

This high quality facsimile reprint is very attractively bound in highly decorated tan morocco

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Magpie and Bittern Eggs Hand Colored Plate where he and Cautley excavatedHand colored lithographic plate, approximately 10. 25 inches wide by 14 inches long. From: Meyer, H. L., Illustrations of British Birds, lithographer H. L. Meyer. 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 magpie egg and bittern egg. Publisher Longman and Co. Publisher Place London Date Published 1835