sharpe richard bowdler 1847 1909 (4 Ergebnisse)

1st U.S. Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked, pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 399 pages; Description: xvi, 399 p. Incl. Front. , illus. , plates. 21 cm. Subjects: Birds. First published, London, 1898. "This little book contains the gist of my lectures on the ? Curiosities of bird life'. "--Pref. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xx, 255 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm. Notes: Includes index. Subjects: Birds Great Britain. Ornithology. Genre: Illustrated. 1 Kg.

London : Henry Sotheran, 1885-1894. Two volumes, quarto, contemporary half crushed morocco over pebbled cloth, spine in compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt (extremities rubbed); bookplate to front pastedowns of Frederick du Cane Godman; with 103 hand-coloured lithographic plates after Wyatt heightened in gum arabic, 26 hand-coloured maps, tables; various paginations; very good throughout. A fine set of the preferred issue, with all the plates hand-coloured. The set also has an interesting association with its author: the original owner,Frederick DuCane Godman, an English lepidopterist, entomologist and ornithologist, was one of the twenty founding members of the British Ornithologists' Union and collaborated with Bowdler Sharpe on a number of ornithological publications.

Original lithograph by William Hart with later hand-colour, as published by Mintern Bros, in Sharpe's 'A Monograph of the Paradiseidae or Birds of Paradise, and Ptilonorhinchidae or Bower Birds' 1891-98. 560 x 390 mm. Ptilorhis victoriae, Rifle-bird, Queen Victoria's. PS850.