Verlag: Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1903
Anbieter: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, Neuseeland
Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. Ex-library. Library stamps, labels and markings. Plates with circular library blind-stamp at lower corner. Creasing to the tissue guard to frontispiece. ; 1903 "New Edition" of a title first published in 1894. Volume Two only, this volume on hunting in Asia. x, 444 pages + frontispiece + 16 black-and-white plates. 56 in-text illustrations. Brown cloth boards. Spine with gilt moose head illustration (obscured by library label). Red-brown and grey illustration on front board. Black and white and gilt lettering on spine. Black and white lettering on front board. "With illustrations by Charles Whymper and from photographs". Series: The Badminton Library. Contents: Arctic Hunting by Arnold Pile; The Caucasus by Clive Phillipps-Wolley; Mountain Game of the Caucasus by Clive Phillipps-Wolley; Caucasian Aurochs by St. G. Littledale; Ovis Argali of Mongolia by St. G. Littledale; The Chamois by W. A. Baillie-Grohman; The Stag of the Alps by W. A. Baillie-Grohman; The Scandinavian Elk by Sir Henry Pottinger; European Big Game by Major Algernon Heber Percy, and the Earl of Kilmorey; The Large Game of Spain and Portugal by Abel Chapman and W. J. Buck; Indian Shootig by Lieut.-Col. Reginald Heber Percy; The Ovis Poli of the Pamir by St. G. Littledale; Camps, Transport, Etc. by Clive Phillips-Wolsey; A Few Notes on Rifles and Ammunition by H. W. H.; Hints on Taxidermy, Etc.; A Short Bibliography; Index. [Reference: Czech, Asian Big Game, p. 162].
Verlag: Dominion Museum 1942-1944, Wellington, 1942
Anbieter: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, Neuseeland
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Softcover. Zustand: Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. No signatures. Some foxing. A 30mm tear to corner of title leaf. A 40mm tear to paper at head of front joint. A 30mm chip to tail of paper spine. A couple of 8mm tears to margins of front wrapper. Foxing to wrappers. ; This is Volume I, Number 2 of the Records of the Dominion Museum. [ii], 69-231 pages + plates. Printed paper wrappers. Page dimensions: 245 x 153mm. This issue includes a long article "Carved Maori Houses of the Eastern Districts of the North Island" by W. J. Phillipps on pages 69-119, with black and white plates for this article numbered from 22 to 51 (plates 1-21 were in Volume I, Number 1 of this serial). Plate 52 is an attractive colour plate of the Ribbon Fish, Trachipterus jacksoniensis, accompanying the article "An Immature Trachipterus from French Pass" by W. J. Phillipps. Plate 53 is another colour plate showing insect larvae, accompanying the article "New Genera, Species and Records of New Zealand Collembola, and a Discussion of Entomobrya atrocincta Schott" by J. T. Salmon. The remaning plates in this volumes, plates 54-73, are all b&w line figures or b&w photographic illustrations. The other articles in this issue are: "The Genus Megalopsalis Roewer in New Zealand, with Keys to the New Zealand Genera of Opiliones" by R. R. Forster; "The Vegetation and Flora of D'Urville and Stephen Islands" by W. R. B. Oliver; and "The Veronica-like Species of New Zealand" by W. R. B. Oliver. Keywords: Maori carving; Entomology; Hebes. ; 8vo.