Alpheraky sergius (4 Ergebnisse)

First Edition. First edition. Folio. 197 pp. Illustrated, 24 full-page chromolithographs. Original gilt-stamped cloth. Very good.

Large 4to. (337x265mm), pp: x+198,[2], half title, frontispiece by Dr. P.P. Sushkin and 24 coloured plates by F. W Frohawk, Corrigenda leaf tipped-in before 'List of Plates'. An English translation by John Marshall, M.A., of the author's first edition which was published in Russia in 1904, foxing to prelims & a few plates not affecting image & final plate foxed. In original green cloth, gilt, with gilt title rubbed to spine, otherwise very good, tight & sound. All the known species and subspecies of Paleartic geese are described and figured. The text consists of an introduction with a general account of the group of birds dealt with, a key to the genera, species and subspecies, and a discussion to the individual species or subspecies.…

Hardcover. pp.viii, 198 with 24 colour chromolithograph plates of geese and their bills by F.W. Frohawk and coloured frontispiece by Dr. P.P. Sushkin. Royal 4to. In original green cloth boards, lightly rubbed, o/w. thor. vg. Minor, scattered foxing to contents, which are o/w. in fine condition. TEG. Bookplate of Arthur B. Duncan to front paste-down. A very pleasing copy. Dedication copy from Rowland Ward which reads 'Captain Stanley Flower, with Rowland Ward[s] Kind Regards 1906' to ffep. Captain Flower (1871-1946) was Director of the Cairo Zoological Gardens, Egypt between 1898 - 1924. …

London, Rowland Ward, 1905. VI,198 pp. 24 col. lithogr. plts. by F.W. Frohawk. Hardcover.