Stuttgart, Fritz Lehmann 1906-1913 Complete work in 78 separate issues containing 159 chromolithograph plates mounted on thick card + 332pp. text description, 30x23cm., text and plates loosely inserted in original publisher's paper cover for each issue/part, plates and text are clean and bright, very good condition, ["A series of large, beautifully drawn and colored plates of eggs of Palaearctic birds, showing series and variations in greater or less number. The text, in German and English, gives names and synonymy, and details of nidification (nest-building) in concise form for each species, with full data for each egg or clutch shown. The work was interrupted in 1913 and has never been resumed" (Zimmer, p.360)], weight: 10.5 kg., W121038