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Stockholm: Forlaget Svenska Faglar, 1927. Limited. hardcover. very good. Magnus von Wright. 3 volumes. Text by Einar Lonnberg. Illustrated, exceptional color lithography, 364 color plates and in-text black & white illustrations. Vol. I (1927): pp. 1-295; Vol. II (1929): pp. 296-546; Vol. III (1929): pp. 547-902. Thick folio, full mottled calf, gilt tooled, marbled edges. Stockholm: Forlaget Svenska Faglar, (1927). Limited edition no. 1250. Showing scuffing and light scratches to covers and fading to spines, in very good condition.<br/><br/> Magnus von Wright (1805-1868) was a Swedish-Finnish painter, cartographer, taxidermist and ornithologist. Signed and inscribed on decorative end page by Swedish Nobel Laureate in Poetry Verner von Heidenstam, page includes the poet's photographic portrait [translated]: "This book is being distributed in favor of the trust that has been initiated for Swedish fauna. With this copy I would like to express my thanks for the support that has… Read More

Stockholm: Förlaget Svenska Fåglar, 1927-1929. First edition. Full Calf. Near Fine. Folio. 38.5 by 29 cm. With 364 exquisite color lithographic plates of Swedish birds, in addition to B/W photos. Magnus von Wright (1905-1968) was the primary artist of this spectacular work. He spent countless hours observing and illustrating the Scandinavian species surveyed within. Von Wright was born and lived most of his life in Finland. Besides being a painter and ornithologist, he was a taxidermist and cartographer. Beautifully bound in mottled calf, with gilt impressed eagle as a centerpiece to front boards of all three volumes and a simple decorative filigree setting off the compartments betwen the spine's raised bands. All edges are marbled, as are the endpapers.