The Lost Birds of Paradise by Errol Fuller

Intact clean condition dust jacket covers with 15mm tear/chip to bottom right corner back cover,
10mm tear to top right corner front cover, slight creasing to edges and slight slight signs of handling.
Some staining to inside dust jacket cover.

Intact DJ spine slightly creased to top.
Dust Jacket over very good condition black cloth boards with guilt title to spine.

160 clean inside pages of English text with b&w photos and colour plate illustrations, no inscriptions. 
Approx. Dims of book: 290mm h x 210mm w x 20mm d.

''An intriguing study of a group of birds whose existence has been almost entirely forgotten,
yet a group that contains some of the world's most exquisitely beautiful and extravagantly ornamented creatures."

A fascinating and informative book with many magnificent paintings and illustrations.

Chapters include; Mantou's Rifle Bird; Duivenbode's Rifle Bird; Sharpe's Lobe-Billed Rifle Brid;
Rothschild's Lobe-Billed Bird of Paradise; the Astrapian Sicklebill; Elliot's Bird of Paradise;
the mysterious bird of Bobairo; Wilhelmina's Bird of Paradise; the King of Holland's Bird of Paradise;
the Lyre-Tailed King; Ruy's Bird of Paradise; the Wonderful Bird of Paradise; Paradisea mixta;
Lupton's Bird of Paradise; Frau Reichenow's Bird of Paradise; Captain Blood's Bird of Paradise.