Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds The text is in Japanese

The text is in Japanese with Latin names used throughout

are bright and clean

1823 text-figures (halftones

errata corrections page tipped in at rear

a contribution from Kew Royal Botanic Gardens

Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds The text is in JapanesePp. xxii, 485, 9 color plates, 32 black and white plates, 22 maps, numerous text figures and end paper map of New Guniea. Publishers original forest green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, color pictorial black dust jacket lettered in white on the spine and front panel, lg 8vo. This volume includes a synopsis of the history of discovery of New Guinea and of the collecting birds of paradise and bowerbirds from the earliest plume collectors to the