£125 - £250
This beautiful chromolithograph is from Henry Eeles Dresser's classic A Monograph of the Meropidae, or family of bee-eaters. 1884-86
This monograph was issued in six parts and Keulemans provided the illustrations for all of its 34 plates.
It is a monograph on an exotic and gregarious species breeding in holes or river banks. It is noted in the preface that 'all the Bee-eaters without exception lay pure white glossy eggs,' and that they are predominant in Ethiopia, which is inhabited by no less than twenty-one of the thirty-one species identified.
Dresser included introductory notes on the anatomy and osteology by Frank E. Beddard, but the most striking feature of the work is the superb quality of Keulemans' hand-coloured plates.
Size: 10 x 12.5 inches
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