VERY GOOD SOFTBACK COPY. FINDING THE RAREST REGULARLY OCCURING BIRDS IN THE LOWER 48 STATES. BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED WITH LINE DRAWINGS AND A 40 PAGE COLOUR SECTION FEATURING HARD TO FIND PHOTOGRAPHS OF THESE RARITIES
NEW HARDBACK BOOK IN A DUSTWRAP. REFLECTING MORE THAN TEN YEARS OF RESEARCH DOCUMENTATION AND TECHNICAL EXAMINATION OF THE COLLECTION BY PROMINENT CURATORS AND CONSERVATORS THIS BEAUTIFUL VOLUME WILL BE OF GREAT INTEREST TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND COLLECTORS AS WELL AS TO STUDENTS AND SCHOLARS. HEAVY AND WILL INCUR EXTRA POSTAGE.
Author:
WARREN DAVID B., MICHAEL K. BROWN, ELIZABETH ANN COLEMAN AND EMILY BALLEW NEFF
ISBN:
0691059624
Place, Publisher, Date:
1998 THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON IN ASSOCIATION WITH PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
ELEVENTH EDITION ORIGINAL BROWN CLOTH. RATHER WORN CLOTH FOXING TO FEP ONLY OTHERWISE VERY GOOD. NUMEROUS INTERESTING LINE DRAWINGS. A TREATISE ON LOAM DRY SAND AND GREEN SAND MOULDING. UNUSUAL.
THE POPULAR EDITION THREE VOLUMES IN ONE. THICK SMALL QUARTO. pp. 214 390 426. CONTAINS A LONG ESSAY ON THE LIFE OF WILSON. REBOUND USING THE ORIGINAL RED BEVELLED BOARDS AND SPINE NEW ENDPAPERS REPAIRED TITLE PAGE. ILLUSTRATED WITH 103 PLATES ENGRAVED FROM DRAWINGS FROM NATURE FOUR PER PAGE. SOME SLIGHT WEAR TO THE BOARDS AND FOXING TO THE EDGES OF THE PLATE ONLY. CLEAN AND TIGHTLY BOUND. NO DATE BUT CIRCA 1878. VERY SCARCE IN THE UK.
FIRST EDITION 4 VOLUMES. FOLIO. VERY GOOD CONDITION IN HALF LEATHER BINDING BY CHARLES DAY OF LONDON. ILLUSTRATED BY THE CAMERA BY OSWIN A J LEE. EACH VOLUME HAS 40 FULL SIZE BLACK AND WHITE PLATES OF BIRDS THEIR EGGS AND NESTS AND VIGNETTES BY THE AUTHOR. SOME WEAR TO THE LEATHER AND THE SPINE OF VOLUME 2 IS SLIGHTLY SPLIT. INTERNALLY AN EXCEPTIONALLY CLEAN SET. A SCARCE ITEM.
1ST EDITION QUARTO ORIGINAL RED CLOTH NO DUSTWRAPPER PROTECTED BY AN ACETATE SHEET. WITH UNOBTRUSIVE LAW SOCIETY STAMP TO FEP AND HALF TITLE. SOME FOXING TO THE PRELIMS. THEN VERY CLEAN WITH COLOURED FOLDING MAPS CHARTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS AND FOUR MAPS IN A REAR POCKET. SCARCE
FIRST EDITION QUARTO PROBABLY REBACKED WITH PLAIN DRAB BOARDSORIGINAL LABEL Pp vii 436 xxci 4 PLATES. THE FRONT HINGE IS SPLITTING OTHERWISE VERY GOOD.
FIRST EDITION VOLUME 2 ONLY (OF THREE). THIS WAS COOK’S FIRST VOYAGE UNDERTAKEN IN THE DOLPHIN SWALLOW AND ENDEAVOUR. REBOUND IN MARBLED BOARDS WITH STIFF CREAM PAPER SPINES PAPER LABELS NEW ENDPAPERS. BINDING IS TIGHT. CONTAINS TITLE PAGE LIST OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 410 PAGES. THERE ARE NO PLATES IN THIS VOLUME. A VERY CLEAN COPY WITH SOME EVIDENCE OF WORM HOLES AT THE FOOT OF THE LAST 30 PAGES. PICTURES AVAILABE.