Parrots Index 1

PARROTS (1)

Cassell's Book of Birds

The chromolithographs below are cut from Thomas Rymer's Jones' adaptation of Alfred Brehm's Illustrirtes Tierleben.
The work wpublished in four volumes as Cassell's Book of Birds, beginning circa 1869.

Size: 10 x 7 inches

CASS-P.01	Scarlet Macaw	45.00	Excellent
CASS-P.02	Ground Parrakeet	Sold	Excellent
CASS-P.03	Blue-Striped Lory	45.00	Excellent

W. T. Greene

The xylographic plates, or wood-engravings, below are cut from the first and only edition of William Thomas Greene's classic three-volume Parrots in Captivity, published by George Bell, London, 1882-87. The parrots were colored by Benjamin Fawcett and based on drawings by Alexander F. Lydon. W. T. Greene: "In almost every instance, the plates have breen drawn and colored from life, and are scarcely to be exceeded in any ornithoglogical work, at least of a popular character, with which we are acquainted."

Size: 9.75 x 6.5 inches

jcorwin@classicnatureprints	Name	Price	Condition
GREENE-P01	Blue Bonnet Parrakeet	95.00	Excellent
GREENE-P02	Leadbeater's Cockatoo	100.00	Excellent
GREENE-P03	Lesser Lemon-Crested Cockatoo	100.00	Excellent
GREENE-P04	Red-Winged Parrakeet	70.00	Very Good
GREENE-P05	Dufresne's Amazon	Sold	Excellent
GREENE-P06	Military Macaw	Sold	Excellent
GREENE-P07	New Zealand Parrakeet	Sold	Excellent
GREENE-P08	Pale-Headed, or Mealy, Roselle	Sold	Excellent
GREENE-P09	Blood, or Red-Rumped, Parrakeet	Sold	Excellent
GREENE-P10	Senegal Parrot	Sold	Excellent
GREENE-P11	Alexandrine Parrakeet	95.00	Excellent
GREENE-P12	Yellow-Rumped Parrakeet	100.00	Excellent
GREENE-P13	Blossom-Headed Parrakeet	95.00	Excellent
GREENE-P14	Splendid Parrakeet	95.00	Excellent
GREENE-P15	Purple-Capped Lory	125.00	Excellent
GREENE-P16	Many-Colored Parrakeet	100.00	Excellent
GREENE-P17	Bauer's Parrakeet	100.00	Excellent
GREENE-P18	Red-Throated White-Fronted Amazon	125.00	Excellent
GREENE-P19	Sun Parrakeet	85.00	Excellent-

St. George Jackson Mivart (1842-1912)

The hand-finished color lithographs below were done by John Gerrard Keulemans and are cut from St. George Mivart's Monograph of the Lories, or Brush-Tonued Parrots, published by R. H. Porter, London, in 1896. These rare plates have mild age toning, more noticeable around the periphery.

Size: Approximatelly 10 x 12 inches.

MIVART-P60	Arfak Lory Oreopsittacus arfaki	275.00	Excellent
MIVART-P50	Black Lory Chalcopsittacus ater Bernsteins Lory Chacopsittcus bernsteini	275.00	Excellent-
MIVART-P53	Palm Lory Hypocharmosyna palmarum Pigmy Loryi Hypocharmosyna pygmaea	275.00	Excellent
MIVART-P09	Red Lory Eos rubra	275.00	Excellent
MIVART-P40	Yellow and Green Parrot Psitteuteles flavoviridis	275.00	Excellent
MIVART-P29	Forsten's Lory Trichoglossus forsteni	275.00	Excellent
MIVART-P39	Ornate Lory Trichoglossus ornatus	250.00	Excellent

Francois Nicolas Martinet

MART-PAR01

Perruche a poitrine grise

Sold

MART-PAR02
Petite Perruche Maypouri de Cayenne
Sold

MART-PAR03
La Perruche Illinoise
Sold

MART-PAR04
Le Perroquet Amazone
Sold

These hand-colored copper-plate engravings by François Nicolas Martinet are cut from the "grand papier" edition of Buffon's classic Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux, 1770-1786.

Page Size: 12.5 x 18.75 inches
Plate Impression: 8 X 10 inches

Abbe Bonaterre
BONA-PAR1

8x 11 inches

$125.00

J. G. Keulemans

The hand-colored lithographs below are by John Gerrard Keulemans and cut from Richard Bowdler Sharpe and William Ogilvie-Grant's monumental Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, London, 1881-1898 . Lithography: Mintern Brothers. According to Zimmer, the Catalogue is "unquestionably the most important work on systematic ornithology that has ever been published." See also Keulemans Birds.

Size: 8.75 x 5.5 inches

PAR-K1	*Palaeornis finschi*	95.00	Excellent
PAR-K2	*Pionopsittacus pyrrhops*	95.00	Excellent
PAR-K3	*Myopsittacus luchsi*	95.00	Excellent
PAR-K4	*Chrysotis lilacina* *Chrostis diademata* *Chrosotis salvini*	95.00	Excellent
PAR-K5	*Bolborhynchus andicola*	95.00	Excellent
PAR-K6	*Psittacula sclateri*	95.00	Excellent
PAR-K7	Charmosyna atrata Oreostruthus fuliginosus	Sold	Excellent
PAR-K8	Cyanolesbia griseiventris Psittacula xanthops	65.00	Very Good+

W. Rutledge

These handsome chromolithographs are by W. Rutledge and cut from W. A. Blakston, Walter Swaysland, and August F. Wiener's classic Illustrated Book of Canaries and Cage Birds, British and Foreign, published by Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, London, 1877-1880. (see Ludlow)

Size: 8.25 x 10.75 inches

PAR-R2	Amazon Parrot Grey Parrot	Sold	Excellent
PAR-R3	Mealy Rosella Parakeet (Hen) Rosella Parakeet	55.00	Excellent
PAR-R4	Turquoise Parakeet Many Couloured Parakeet (Male & Female)	55.00	Excellent
PAR-R5	Cockateel (Male & Female) Roseate Cockatoo Scaly Breasted Parakeet Leadbeaters Cockatoo	Sold	Excellent
PAR-R6	Blue-Striped Lory Blue Mountain Lory	60.00	Excellent

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