Moas, the Rodrigues Solitary and poor old Martha…
BOUND in contemporary half morocco, one of 300 signed copies of the 1907 first edition of Rothschild’s Extinct Birds, containing 49, mostly chromo plates after Keulemans, Lodge, Grönvold, Smit and Frohawk, went at £3000 to a collector in the Sotheby’s sale of June 5.
For those interested in the subject but not prepared to hand over such sums, OUP have recently issue…