Godman e (5 Ergebnisse)

XXXVII/684 S., Originalkunststoff (publisher's plastic binding), gutes Exemplar (fine), Sprache: englisch.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First American Edition. 425 Pages, 51 Unnumbered Pages, Xxi Leaves Of Plates (3 Folded) : Illustrations, Complete; 22 Cm. Bound In Original Speckled Calf, Morocco Spine Label. First American Printing, Copyright December 11, 1824, Publication Date 1825 On Title Page. Lightly Used, Binding Sound, Pages Square, Light Browning/Foxing Throughout. Antique Ownership Signatures Of Benjamin Jones B----Y, Undated, And J. (John) D. Nesbit Dated Jan. 2, 1837 At Cincinnati (And From A Library Of Many Nineteenth Century Books Signed By Him And Other Nesbits). Also With A Letter To Him In Cincinnati From His Sister In Peru, Indiana, Also Dated In 1837, , With Handwritten Postage. Scarce; No Recent Auction Record Located. 31 Plates, Of Which 3 Are Folding (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Four volume set with 28 colour plates by Archibald Thorburn, 6 colour plates by Henrik Gronvold (five dedicated to eggs as published) plus photographic plates and 4 maps. 4to. Hardback. Vol. I & II with TEG as published. With the bookplate of David Bannerman to front pastedown of each volume. Some spotting to fore-edges of text blocks and to ends with only a very minor amount indeed elsewhere o/w. contents fine. Nr. fine hardbacks in thor. vg. to nr. fine dws. Comes with the following inserts : A letter (dated 12th Nov. 1968) to David Bannerman from Oliver & Boyd in which they explain (amongst other things) that Proofs of the plates for 'Birds of Somaliland' have been sent to Eva Godman. Obituaries for both Sir Geoffrey Archer and Eva Godman. A review of Vols. III & IV dated Oct. 1967. An obituary for Sir Douglas Hall, Bt., the last Governor of the Somaliland Protectorate (dated May 2004). A very pleasing and unique set - most uncommon in dustwrappers.…

All items are good, on lightly aged paper. The 'Report of the Auditors of the Accounts' is seven pages, octavo, stitched and unbound. It consists of five full-page tables: 'Receipts', 'Payments', 'Comparison of Receipts in 1867 and 1868', 'Comparison of Payments in 1867 and 1868' and one showing 'The Assets and Liabilities of the Society on the 31st of December 1868'. Comment by the seven auditors (all named) on final page, remarking on 'the unexampled state of prosperity of the Zoological Society at the close of the previous year'. The four handbills are each on one side of a 12mo leaf. They consist of a notice of the election by the secretary Philip Lutley Sclater ('The Band of the First Life Guards will, by permission of Col. the Hon. Dudley de Ros, perform in the Gardens'), and three balloting lists, each dated 29 April 1869: for the Officers (on pink paper), the Council (on yellow paper), and the Committee of Publication (on green paper). An attractive collection of Victorian London Zoo ephemera.…

London, Taylor and Francis, 1890-1901, 1915. Two parts in two. 4to (30.7 x 25.1 cm). xxviii, 706 pp.; 44 lithographed plates, of which plates 1-28 finely hand-coloured and partly heightened with gum arabic; [AND] viii, 149 pp.; two phototype portraits, eight coloured maps. Slightly later dark blue and black buckram with gilt title on the spines. = Two parts of a massive work, part of an enormous publication, comprising 63 volumes in all, edited by the British zoologists (principally ornithologists) Osbert Salvin and Frederick DuCane Godman, which is renowned for its thorough treatment with detailed descriptions and fine illustrations. All parts - published between 1879 and 1915 - are much sought-after and uncommon to rare. The mollusc part, written by the German malacologist Karl Eduard von Martens (1831-1904) is one of least-seen sections. Plates 1-28 show land snails and are all beautifully coloured by hand. Plates 29-44 show freshwater clams, and a few Melampidae and Littorinidae (!), as well as (on Plate 44) various additional land shells, which are always uncoloured. Many species are new. Von Martens included a history of malacology for each of the included states, from Mexico to Panama, although Mexico is usually regarded as part of North America. The contribution by Godman is the last part published. It contains a fine narrative of the origin of the series, Biologia Centrali-Americana (and of the famous ornithological journal, The Ibis, which is still published); on the friendship between the editors, and of the various collection trips made or paid for by the editors. Provenance: stamp of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020) in the top margin of the front free endpapers and titles. Godman's work with a short cut in one text page, and a strong bump at the lower outer corner. Von Martens's contribution with the plates slightly toned, but otherwise fine. Kabat and Boss, Karl Eduard von Martens (1831-1904): His Life and Work, p. 91. Nissen ZBI, 2702.…