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Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextThis 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 origina.

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.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Vol 1: Frontispiece portrait+xxix+pp1-180pp+ii(list of plates)+18 (plates)+Part 2 TP+pp181-pp528+8 (plates)+pp529-pp531(index). Vol 2: Plate P + vi + iii + 665pp + folding map + 96pp Appendix Green pebbled cloth boards, plain gilt titles to spine. TesG. Chromolithographic plates of eggs, two coloured plates of birds, b/w plates, in text illustrations, a coloured map and a few monochromatic plates. Both volumes with the red leather and gilt bookplate of South African businessman and conservationist C.S. "Punch" Barlow. Besides the text dealing with the individual specimens Vol. 1 also contains a memoir on Wolley (pp. IX-XXXIX) and Vol. 2 (pp. 96) an appendix of sixty items, 'The publications on natural history of John Wolley, except those included in the body of the work (Anker). The text is extensively expanded with comments by Alfred Newton, to whom Wolley left his egg collection when he died at the tender age of 36. John Wolley was an egg collector, whose unpublished research into the Great Auk or Garefowl- a now extinct species of flightless bird, much larger, but closely resembling a penguin - is some of the "most important documentations of the life and death of the [species]". In the feverish pursuit for increasingly rare specimens by collectors and museums, the last known breeding pair of Auks were captured and strangled by Icelandic sailors on Eldey Island, one of them breaking the last remaining egg in the struggle. According to Errol Fuller, though his contribution to the story is little known, John Wolley was one of the biggest players in the lore surrounding the Auk. Wolley is said to be the sole reason that the names of the sailors and the events on Eldey that lead to the definitive extinction date of the Auk on 3 June 1844 are known (1999). Volume 2 of the present work contains 8 plates, each with 2 finely coloured figures of Great Auk eggs. Volume 1 with some rubbing to a corner of the top board, lower board with some insect marks. Frontispiece a little foxed, plates variably foxed, some fairly heavily. Plate J age toned, light, scattered foxing to the text. 1cm closed tear to pp39/40 Binding square and tight, a very good copy. Volume 2 binding slightly shaken, rubbing and insect marks to both boards. Gutter split at Plate P before first blank prelim. Very light foxing to some of the text, plates without foxing, final page toned and foxed, very good copy. From the library of South African natural history book dealer, publisher and conservationist Russel Friedman. Anker 541. 1999. Fuller, E. The Great Auk. The Author. Southborough. …

Sole editions. Four parts bound in two volumes. Large 8vo. xl, 525, (3), (527-532); vi, 665, (1), 96, (4) pp. Expertly bound in recent quarter red morocco over marbled boards, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered black labels, lettered direct to another and with a gilt device repeated to the others, the original printed wrappers to all four parts bound in at the rear of volume II, adjacent to the first wrapper is a 3 pp. autograph letter signed from Newton addressed to "My dear Edge" on Magdalen College, Cambridge headed paper, parts II and III feature tipped in handwritten notes presenting them "with the editor's compliments", parts II and IV also come with letters from Newton to the original recipient's son, finally the set is complemented with two pieces of interesting egg related printed ephemera. Photogravure portrait frontispiece, 21 chromolithograph plates of bird eggs numbered I-XXI, 16 lithograph plates (tinted, chromolithographic or uncoloured) depicting birds, nests and landscapes lettered A-P and a folding colour map of Lapland. John Wolley (1823-1859) was an ornithologist and egg collector, first becoming interested in the subject whilst studying at Cambridge. Over time he became something of an expert on the Dodo and, later on, the Great Auk. His studies led to travels in Europe and Scandinavia and it was during one of these trips in the 1850s that he interviewed the men that had killed the last of the Great Auk species the previous decade. Wolley fell ill after one of these foreign trips and eventually passed away at the tender age of 36. On his demise his notes and remaining egg collection passed to his close friend Alfred Newton who painstakingly edited and published Wolley's notes over the next half century. Alfred Newton (1829-1907) became one of the pre-eminent ornithologists of the age being one of the founders of the British Ornithologists' Union in 1858 and ascending to the chair of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at Cambridge in 1866, a post that he held until his death. In these later decades Newton also edited or contributed to many other important ornithological works such as editions of Yarrell's Birds, the Encyclopaedia Britannica and his own Dictionary of Birds (four volumes, 1893-96) but his editorship of Wolley's work was by far his crowning achievement in print. The first letter is dated September 1864 and is evidently written to James Thomas Edge (1827-1894 (originally James Thomas Hurt, he took his mother's maiden name early in his adult life)). Newton explains that he had asked Van Voorst to send Edge a copy of the work but that the publisher had ignored his instruction to inscribe the volume with his wishes. This omission prompted Newton's belated letter which had been delayed due to a summer long bird watching trip to Spitsbergen. The later letters are both addressed to Edge's son Thomas Lewis Kekewich Edge (1856-1931), the first of these references the senior Edge's collection - the importance of certain pieces within it and the need to ticket them. Newton's final letter is dated March 1907, just three months prior to his death. He is glad that Edge has had "the 4th and last part of this book and seem[s] to like it" and commends an extract that Edge had quoted from his father's journal in a previous letter, apparently confirming a conclusion John Wolley had also come to. Interestingly, Wolley's father Francis also changed surname during his adult life - taking on his wife's maiden name. Prior to becoming a Wolley, Francis' surname had been Hurt. Thus, it transpires that as well as sharing a keen interest in ornithology and oology, John Wolley and James Thomas Edge were second cousins. The ephemera comprises an 1865 printed sale notice from the auctioneer J.C. Stevens offering a "Rare & Remarkable Egg" of a bird "presumed to be quite extinct" which he states was "probably the Dinornis ingens of Owen". Richard Owen had been sent a fragment of an unusual bone that had been excavated in New Zealand in the late 1830s. After studying it for several years he came to the conclusion that it was almost certainly a part of a bone from a giant flightless bird which he named Dinornis novaezealandiae, more commonly known by its Maori name of Moa which had long since been extinct. Also inserted is a 24 pp. sale catalogue of eggs dated 1858 offered by the same auctioneer, the eggs collected by John Wolley himself in Lapland the previous year. A handsome set of a what is ordinarily an uncommon work, this set rendered unique with its the family association, letters from the editor and the related ephemera.…

London, 1864-1902. XXIX,VII pp. 531 pp. 13 col. lithogr. plts of eggs & 13 tinted lithogr. plts. Hardcover, a bit worn. - Inner join repaired. Dedication in ink on free-endpaper.Vol. I only. Part I: Accipitres & Part II: Picariae-Passeres.