sarah bowdich (20 Ergebnisse)

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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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Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). Illustrated with engraved plates, this is the fifth edition of Sarah Bowdich Lee's scarce informative and detailed guide to taxidermy. The fifth edition of this work, which is very scarce in all editions, and first published in 1820.Illustrated with a frontispiece and four further engraved plates. Collated, complete.A guide to all aspects of the art of taxidermy from Sarah Bowdich Lee, an English writer, illustrator, traveller, zoologist, botanist, and pteridologist.Publisher's catalogue to the rear, dated September 1839.With the label of the Guille-Alles Library to the front board, and their bookplate to the front pastedown, and their stamp to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with library label to front board. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with label to front board age toned. Library bookplate to front pastedown, and stamp to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with spotting to plates and leaves surrounding them. Very Good. book.

Single sheet (11 4/8 x 13 6/8 inches). An exquisite painting of a pair of Stickleback fishes, original watercolour and gouache over pencil, HEIGHTENED WITH GOLD, captioned beneath the image: "P. 20 Stickleback 2 species nat.l. size" and signed lower right "S. Bowdich del". A beautiful painting from ONE OF THE RAREST BOOK ON FISHES, LIMITED TO ABOUT 50 COPIES, 47 SUBSCRIBER'S ARE RECORDED, AND ONE OF ONLY A HANDFUL OF NATURAL HISTORY WORKS TO BE ILLUSTRATED BY ORIGINAL WATERCOLOURS. Originally issued in 11 parts, in 22 installments from 1828 to 1836. When Sarah Bowdich's husband, the naturalist Thomas Bowdich sailed to Africa in the service of the Royal African Company in 1815, Sarah Bowdich followed shortly thereafter with the couple's new-born daughter, Florence; "along the way she caught a shark and helped to put down a mutiny. On her arrival in September 1816 she found that her husband had temporarily gone back to England. While awaiting his return she made observations of the local culture and natural history, but she and her baby caught fever, from which Florence died. After her husband's return and successful inland expedition to the Asante, the Bowdichs sailed for England in February 1818. En route they stopped at Gabon, where they studied local flora and fauna. Sarah Bowdich's eighteen months in Africa established her as the first European woman ever to collect plants systematically in tropical west Africa. "In early 1819 the Bowdichs moved to Paris to study natural science in preparation for a second African expedition. Well received by the savants of the Institut de France, they became protégés of the eminent naturalist Georges Cuvier, who treated them like members of his family, allowing them the run of his collections and library. Sarah Bowdich, a regular at Cuvier's salons, was described as 'a sylph' and having a 'veritably angelic character'. To support themselves the Bowdichs published several English translations of French texts between 1820 and 1822. Sarah Bowdich illustrated the books and prepared one volume, (1820), entirely on her own. By virtue of her zoological and botanical knowledge she was elected on 15 March 1820 an honorary member of the Wetterauische Gesellschaft für die Gesamte Naturkunde zu Hanau am Main, a membership she later publicized on the title-pages of her books. While in Paris the Bowdichs had three children, of whom two survived: Edward Hope Smith and Tedlie Hutchison. In midsummer 1822 the family left for Africa, stopping briefly at Lisbon and then spending fifteen months in Madeira, where they studied the island's natural history and where a daughter, Eugenia Keir, was born. Soon after arriving at Bathurst on the Gambia in November 1823 Thomas Bowdich caught fever; he died on 10 January 1824. "Penniless, stranded in Africa, and with three children to support, Sarah Bowdich set out to make a career of her art in natural history. Arriving back in London in mid-1824 she found that friends had taken up a collection for her support. By the next year she had prepared and published her husband's last manuscript, Excursions in Madeira and Porto Santo, adding three appendices of her own based on her experiences at Bathurst. Most significantly, however, her original descriptions of new species and genera of fish, birds, and plants, evaluated by Cuvier, established her as the first woman known to have discovered whole new genera of plants. Between 1824 and 1830 she often visited the Jardin des Plantes in Paris to consult with Cuvier. She also carried out errands for him and other leading scientists, among them the botanist Robert Brown and the Quaker physician Thomas Hodgkin, who had become her close friend in 1824. "The publisher Rudolph Ackermann persuaded Sarah Bowdich to write a story about Africa for his Forget-me-Not for 1826, an annual gift book to which she contributed until 1844. At about the same time, Lord de Tabley and William Pickering induced her to take up the project for wh.

First edition of both works, presentation copy from Sarah Bowdich, inscribed at head of the title page of Excursions, "The Revd. Dr. Bellamy, with Mrs Bowdich's grateful respects"; only one other presentation copy has appeared at auction (Forum Auctions, 2020). This copy is complete with the hand-coloured plate of the costume of the Gambia, not present in Abbey's copy. This was the Bowdichs second expedition to Africa. They travelled to the Gambia by way of Lisbon, where T. E. compiled a complete history of all the Portuguese discoveries in Africa, and Madeira "where they remained for some months, collecting geological, geographical, and botanical information" (ODNB). In the Gambia, Bowdich began a trigonometrical survey of the river. "His enthusiasm for scientific observation was said to have cost him his life there, for while taking astronomical observations at night he caught cold, which was followed by fever, resulting in his death, at the early age of thirty-three, on 10 January 1824" (ibid.). Sarah was left stranded in Africa, penniless and with three children to support, so she "set out to make a career of her art in natural history. Arriving back in London in mid-1824 she found that friends had taken up a collection for her support. By the next year she had prepared and published her husband's last manuscript,Excursions in Madeira and Porto Santo, adding three appendices of her own based on her experiences at Bathurst. Most significantly, however, her original descriptions of new species and genera of fish, birds, and plants, evaluated byCuvier, established her as the first woman known to have discovered whole new genera of plants" (ibid.). Theakstone notes that she was described in contemporary journals as the first female traveller in the wild regions of Africa. Provenance: the recipient may be the Hebraist and Swedenborgian Dr John Bellamy (1755-1842), who in 1818 produced an edition of the Bible, "newly translated from the Original Hebrew", and, in 1812, The History of All Religions. Abbey 190; Gay 2983; Hilmy II p. 382; Theakstone, An Encyclopaedia of Nineteenth Century Women Travellers, p. 245. Two works bound in a single vol., quarto (264 x 207 mm). Excursions: hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece, 21 lithographic plates (3 hand-coloured, 6 folding) by and after Sarah Bowdich, 3 of which lithographed by T. M. Baynes after Sarah Bowdich, all printed by Hullmandel, 4 in-text wood engravings; Essay: 3 folding lithographic plates by Sarah Bowdich, 2 of them after Jane Landseer. Contemporary diced calf sometime neatly rebacked, smooth spine divided by paired gilt fillets, black label, sides framed with a border of paired gilt fillets enclosing concentric panels of a broad foliate roll, triple blind fillets and circular cornerpieces, gilt foliate cornerpieces, gilt edge roll and turn-ins, Italian on Spanish pattern marbled edges and endpapers. Binding rubbed, corners a little worn, strip of leather lost from bottom corner of front cover, some foxing, yet this remains a very good, well-margined copy.