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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

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Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. Features: Satanism and the World Order - Professor Gilbert Murray explains how "The spirit of hatred, which rejoiced in any wide-spread disaster that was also a disaster to the world's rulers, is perhaps more rife today than it has been for a thousand years"; Santo Domingo - The Land of Bullet-Holes - Photo-illustrated article by Harry A. Franck describes how, crossing between Haiti and Santo Domingo, he found striking differences in the two peoples; Paradise Shares (fiction); The Making of a Book-Collector - William Harris Arnold; From a Door-Step in Leinster (Life in small Irish towns), I. The Door-Step, II. A Girl for the Kitchen; The Strange Paumotu Atolls - Frederick O'Brien describes his visit; Aaron Harwood (fiction); The Tide of Affairs - Comment on the times; Quaint Old Boston - Photo-illustrated article; Georgios Venizelos and Hellas; Her Promised Land (fiction); Mecca's Revolt Against the Turk - An explanation of current difficulties in the Middle East subsequent to Emir Feisal setting himself up as king of all Syria in March, 1920 - article with photos of Mecca, Medina, T.E. Lawrence, and The Emir Feisal; The Success of the Season - Theatre business is growing; Musical Adventures of the Season; Where is America Going? - The third (and final) letter by American reporter Webb Waldron to Bernard Roberval, French historian and philosopher; Investment and Banking; Colour frontispiece illustration "The Painted Desert", by Albert Groll. pp. 289-432, 56 [ads]. Includes a particularly wonderful assortment of nostalgic ads, with full-page color ads for Old Colony Trust Company of Boston (featuring John Hull, the mint master of the Massachusetts Bay Colony), W. & J. Sloane (rugs) of Fifth Ave., NYC, Indestructo Trunks, The Jordan Silhouette motor car, The Templar Motor Company, Mercer Motors Company, The Pantasote Company, Macbeth-Evans Glass Company, Kellogg's Krumbled Bran, G-E (General Electric) Fans, Davey Tree Surgeons, and Beech-Nut Ginger Ale. Somewhat above-average external wear. Contents clean and unmarked. Binding intact. Lacking back cover. A sound copy of this fascinating and informative vintage issue. Groll, Albert; Shields, Gertrude M.; Avison, George; Salg, B.N.; Johnston, Robert E. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. First. First edition of Gould's first multi-volume bird book. London: By the author, [1832]-1837. Five volumes. 448 hand-colored lithographed plates (images 447 and 448 are on a single plate) by Edward Lear, John Gould and Elizabeth Gould, printed by C. Hullmandel. Bound by Hering (signed at the upper edge of the front paste-down) in contemporary green morocco with extra gilt borders on the boards. On the spine, five raised bands with a triple gilt fillet. Panels gilt. Title gilt to the second panel, number gilt to the third panel. Triple gilt fillets to the edges of the boards. Gilt inside dentelle. With all edges of the text-block gilt. Spines uniformly sunned. Extremities a little scuffed. End-papers foxed, but internally very good, with occasional offsetting. With the armorial bookplate of Algernon Peckover on the front paste-down of vol. I. Ownership signature (1842) of William Peckover on the verso of the first free end-paper of vol. I. Here is the beginning of the great project by Gould: to present the birds of the world in large-format richly-illustrated multi-volume works. The masterful plates illustrate the text by N.A. Vigors, and in this respect The Birds of Europe stands apart: Gould would provide the text for subsequent endeavors. The challenge of illustrating European birds was to overcome the familiarity of his audience. The result is clear from the subsequent dozens of volumes that would emerge over the following five decades. One of the keys to this success is the involvement of Edward Lear. 68 of the plates were drawn by the poet-artist, and have an almost cartoonish clarity; there is a surety of line that distinguishes his work from other ornithological illustrators' preciousness. Lear's working method differed somewhat from the Goulds' (John Gould was called "bird-stuffer" as his initial role was as taxidermist for the Zoological Society), since he was given to drawing from life. This practice began in his employment by the Earl of Derby drawing the menagerie at Knowsley Hall. To his achievement in gathering the material and superintending the great project we must also add his business acumen: he undertook the subscription, printing and publication of the work - in parts, and, remarkably, ahead of schedule. Unlike so many of the great entrepreneurs of plate-books, Gould managed not only to avoid bankruptcy but also to turn a great profit. William (17901877) and Algernon (18031893) Peckover were sons of the famous Quaker banker Jonathan Peckover of Wisbech in Cambridgeshire. The brothers were founder members of the Wisbech Museum, of which Algernon would go on to be president. Jonathan founded the Wisbech Literary Society in 1871. Ayer/Zimmer 251; Hyman, Lear's Birds p. 45; Jackson, Bird Illustrators pp. 32-58; Nissen, IVB 371. Sauer 2; Sitwell, Fine Bird Books p. 101. …

[4], 338pp. 8vo. Zustand: Modern blue buckram. First Edition. First Edition. [4], 338pp. 8vo.