The Birds of South Africa

Layard, E.L.; Sharpe, R. Bowdler

Verlag: Quaritch 1875-1884, London, 1875

Beschreibung

xxvii, 890, 12 hand-col plates. . HB. Roy. 8vo, orig. half roan, scuffed, rubbed, some wear, marbled endpapers. Cracked between frontis and title, but still firm. Edges uncut; minor chipping, short tear to outer, blank margin of a few pages. A few marginal pencil annotation. Good. Provenance: Ownership signature in pencil to blank recto of frontispiece, dated 1900, J. Riddell Lt. 16th (Queen's) Lancers. George Hutton 'Jack' Riddell, (1878-1953), served in South Africa during the second Boer War (1900-1902). Also with bookplate of South African ornithologist, R.C. Bolster. New [second] edition, revised and augmented by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847-1909). Greatly enlarged from the unillustrated first edition of 1867. Sharpe rewrote much of the original text, and identified several new species. Also included in this edition are 12 fine hand-coloured lithographic plates by the famous Dutch bird illustrator John Gerrard Keulemans (1842-1912). There is a gap in pagination between pages 856 and 867 (end of text and beginning of index) - this is the case in all copies.Nissen IVB 534. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers A42513

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Birds of South Africa

Verlag: Quaritch 1875-1884, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1875

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: 1. Auflage