Louis Fraser | Zoologia typica, or figures of new and rare mammals and birds, 1849

Louis Fraser

Zoologia typica, or figures of new and rare mammals and birds. London: by the author, 1849

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 250 COPIES, folio (365 x 264mm.), hand-coloured lithographed title, list of subscribers, list of plates, 70 hand-coloured lithographed plates, contemporary half morocco over cloth boards, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, extremities slightly rubbed

This attractive volume contains rare mammals and 46 species of birds by the curator of the museum of the Zoological Society in London, Louis Fraser. Fraser spent time in Africa, notably on the infamous Niger Expedition, and later had a shop on Regent Street where he sold exotic birds.

LITERATURE:

Anker 150; Fine Bird Books, p. 75; McGill/Wood, p. 348; Nissen IVB 329; Zimmer, p. 230

PROVENANCE:

Allan Francis Brooke, bookplate