The smallest hummingbirds, Trochilus minimus. Half-price antique print c1808

$25.00

Delightful tiny male and female humming-birds,egg,foliage.

Hand-coloured original antique print. Trochilus minimus of South America, Jamaica and other West Indies islands, engraved by J. Le Keux for George Shaw. Published in London by George Kearsley circa 1808 for Zoological Lectures at the Royal Institution by botanist-zoologist George Shaw (1751-1813).

Page size 22 x 13cm ( 8 5/8 x 5 1/8 inches). This lovely engraving has later colour and slight offsetting of the print from the adjacent page of description. Descriptive text pages are present.