Keulemans j g illus (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Second Edition. VG: in very good condition. Spines faded. Occasional slight foxing. 260mm x 170mm (10" x 7"). xxxv, [969pp]. 421 chromolithographed colour plates mounted on linen guards. Illustrated by Archibald Thorburn and J G Keulemans. Text and plates neatly paginated in pencil. Index in Volume VII. Note that the work was issued in two editions. The first commenced in October 1885, and the second in April 1891. Both editions ended simultaneously. Heavy set extra shipping needed for overseas. Green hardback half-leather cover.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. London: MacMillan, 1876. First edition (pp. frontis, viii, 516, index). Quarto (23 cm) in green cloth, gilt titles to spine, t.e.g. Illustrated by eighteen hand-coloured lithographic plates of birds and mammals by J. G. Keulemans and ten uncoloured lithographs of reptiles and amphibians by G. H. Ford, double-page colour map of Persia 'divided into zoological provinces'. This copy absent three Keulemans plates. Additional ms. technical ornithological notes with additions and corrections throughout Aves section. Blanford, whose other works include similar reports on regions of Mesopotamia and India, was greatly assisted by a Major St. John who evidently had himself explored and collected widely in eastern Persia and who accompanied Blantford on the 1200 mile expedition from Ankora to Shiraz. (Oddly, while St. John's contributions are noted in the text, I can find but one reference to him as anything other than 'Major St. John' and that is in a footnote signed 'O. St. John'. Perhaps they didn't get along. ) Spine edges, top and bottom worn; colour plates peripheries beginning to tan but still bright; binding loosening but holding. A very good copy of a scarce book.…