Hen Harrier (Circus cyaneus) Hand Colored Plate Publisher’s original orange cloth

Publisher’s original orange cloth

From the private research collection of Cornell University herpetologist Kraig Adler with his small bookplate on the front attached endpaper and his signature in the top corner of the title page

ISBN 0-915698-09-9 Limited Edition

Bateman is considered the leading expert on orchids in the 19th century

80 full-page color pages featuring numerous individual photos of poisonous marine animals and the damage they inflict on swimming humans

Hen Harrier (Circus cyaneus) Hand Colored Plate Publisher’s original orange clothHand colored lithographic plate, approximately 10. 25 inches wide by 14 inches long. From: Meyer, H. L., Illustrations of British Birds, 1837, 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 a male and female hen harrier with egg. Publisher Longman and Co. Publisher Place London Date