Macpherson the rev h a (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1986 Edition without Jacket on green cloth - collectable - will send out 1 st class post.

Hardcover. pp.xx, 206 with colour frontis. of a Dotterell by Keulemans and fold-out map. 8vo. Hardback. With bookplate of William Edwin Glegg (1879-1952). Minor spotting to fore-edges of text block o/w. contents fine. Original blue cloth binding thor. vg. to nr. fine. William Edwin Glegg was the author of 'A History of the Birds of Essex' (1929) and 'A History of the Birds of Middlesex' (1935).…

Cloth. Zustand: Near fine. First Edition, First Impression. Large octavo, civ, 378pp. Publisher's dark green cloth, title in gilt on the spine, top edge gilt. Silk bookmark. Lightly bumped lower corners, touch of rubbing to cloth boards. Internally clean, solid text block. Illustrated with a photographic title page, 18 illustrated plates, 30 in-text illustrations and three maps (one foldout map). (Woods, p. 380). The ninth volume in the Vertebrate Fauna of Scotland series. Includes memoirs of naturalists Thomas Edward Buckley and Hugh Alexander MacPherson. The first edition of A Fauna of the North-West Highlands & Skye by J. A. Harvie-Brown and the Rev. H. A. Macpherson, with maps and 18 illustrated plates. (illustrator).…

Soft cover. pp.xx, 206 with colour frontis. of a Dotterell by Keulemans and fold-out map. With Errata slip. 8vo. Hardback. Short closed tear to margin of p.13, o/w. contents fine. James Edmund Harting's (1841-1928) copy with his coat of arms bookplate, and his annotations, corrections and notes to 11 pages, plus his insertions of related material (bird sightings) including a typed, corrected, proof (corrections in Harting's hand) of the scholarly, four page article which featured in The Zoologist (June 1886) reviewing this publication. Original blue cloth boards in nr. fine condition. A superb copy. Harting was editor of The Zoologist from 1877 to 1896. Whilst the book review is not attributed to anyone, it would appear that Harting thoroughly read this copy of The Birds of Cumberland and was very probably the author of the review. The notes he made in his copy feature clearly within the review. The insertions added to this copy by Harting date until 1912 indicating his ongoing curiosity and high level of interest in the subject.…