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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. tidy copy -d/j some chipping top edge -some slight stains to d/j -scans available.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). An early volume from Rowland Ward's important 'Records of Big Game' series. This copy is signed by the editor J.B Burlace. From the library of Captain J and C Brocklehurst with a gift inscription from the editor to the recto of front endpaper. From the library of the Brocklehurst family, which includes noted explorer Sir Philip Lee Brocklehurst and noted hunter and author H.C Brocklehurst.This is the tenth edition which comprises African and Adiatic specimens only. Edited by Guy Dollman and J.B Burlace.Ward was a British taxidermist and founder of Rowland Ward Limited. He published many big-game hunting narratives and natural history works. This series, 'Records of Big Game' started in 1892 and continued to the twenty-first century.This work contains measurements of game animals worldwide and was the pioneering book of its kind. The first edition of this work was titles 'Horn Measurements and Weights of the Great Game of the World'. In addition to measurements there are anecdotes from hunters and naturalists regarding species, geographical variations, subspecies, weights and measurements.Ward's 'Records' was a valuable resource for hunters as field guides were not usually published. Therefore, this work was the handbook for knowing what mammals could be found worldwide across the Empire.As the series progressed, the 'Big Game Narratives' were also a celebration and who's who of big game hunting. Many notable people entered their trophies to be mentioned such as King George V, Sir Winston Churchill and Theodore Roosevelt. Every specimen in the work has the owner's name listed next to it.A fantastic signed copy of this important game enchiridion. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelfwear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright. Occasional scattered spots to the first and last few pages. Very Good Indeed. signed by author. book.

Rothschild, Lionel Walter, Baron de Rothschild (1868-1937); Guy Dollman (1886-1942). The genus Dendrolagus. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 21, part 6. 477-551, [6]pp. 23 plates, 16 in color. London: Printed for the Society, 1936. 331 x 262 mm. Original printed wrappers, spine chipped and splitting. Very good. Blindstamp of the Department of Embryology, Carnegie University on the front wrapper and first leaf. First Edition of this beautiful monograph on the tree kangaroo, with 16 fine color plates after the well-known natural history artist Frederick W. Frohawk (1861-1946) and 7 black and white photographic plates of Dendrolagus skulls. Rothschild and Dollman's monograph represents the first comprehensive taxonomy of Dendrolagus; it features 14 species from New Guinea and surrounding islands, as well as Lumholtz's tree kangaroo and Bennett's tree kangaroo, both from northern Queensland in Australia. .

Cloth. Zustand: Collectible; Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. The 1935 Tenth edition, IN ITS UNCOMMON ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET. Tight and VG (with light foxing to the preliminaries and along the gutters) in a bright, VG dustjacket, with light chipping at the spine crown (with just a bit of loss to the lettering) and along the panel edges. Still though, solid and very presentable. Thick octavo, 408 pgs. "Giving the Distribution, Characteristics, Dimensions, Weights and Horn & Tusk Measurements".

S. 477-502 [25 S.].; 22 Tafeln. 4°, kasch. Ln., goldgepr. Rückentitel, Interimstitel. Einbanddecken berieben. Interimstitel mit Faltspuren und Einschmutzungen. Papier etwas gebräunt, sonst sehr guter und sauberer Zustand. Im Anhang 15 sehr schöne farbige und7 fotografische ganzseitige Abbildungen. Bibliotheksexemplar; Buchschnitt und Titelei gestempelt. 1400 gr.