'The Black and Blue Creeper; and the Hoopoe Hen' opening door light-coloured dress with a patterned

light-coloured dress with a patterned hem

Engelbert Humperdinck meets Miss World Contestants 15th November 1970

it is estimated to have been in excess of $1

The Prince of Wales is escorting the Republic of France in the garden

Inscribed verso [by William Fletcher Barrett]: 'Prof Faraday not good bought June 1864 taken about 6 mo[nth]s

'The Black and Blue Creeper; and the Hoopoe Hen' opening door light-coloured dress with a patternedOrnithological studies of a Red legged honey creeper Cyanerpes cyaneus posed on a tree stump and showing the bright yellow underside of one wing; and the head of the 'Hoopoe hen', probably the Cock of the rock Rupicola rupicola. The plate also features a specimen of British moth. Plate 264 from chapter 54 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c, by George Edwards, volume 2 (London, for the author,