eastern carpets twelve early examples (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Hardback. Large Folio. pp xvii, 12. 52cm by 39cm. Original publisher's beige cloth, lettered red at the spine and front cover. Twelve chromolithographic illustrations on eleven leaves. Bookplate on the front pastedown of Frederick DuCane Godman (1834-1919) an English lepidopterist, entomologist and ornithologist. He was one of the twenty founding members of the British Ornithologists' Union. He closely studied the fauna and flora of Central America and had several plants name after him, he also collected Iznik, Hispano-Moresque and early Iranian pottery. He corresponded with other scientists of his time including Charles Darwin and lived at South Lodge, Lower Beeding where his ceramics collection was kept. The so called 'first series' is the first work on carpets in English, and not to be confounded with the very similar, but later, work from 1893 (second series), which is much more common than the first series from 1882. Faint foxing to endpapers, cloth a little mottled, with some wear and slight splitting at lower spine, overall sound, near very good with very clean text and plates.

London, 1893. 19 pp. 10 lithogr. plts. Cloth, spotted and worn; spine sev. dam. Folio.

First edition. First edition. Printed in Colours after Water-Colours by E. Julia Robinson 50 pages of unpaginated text. 1 vols. Folio ( 20 x 14.5 Inches). Tan original cloth, spine perished, else very nice copy Printed in Colours after Water-Colours by E. Julia Robinson 50 pages of unpaginated text. 1 vols. Folio ( 20 x 14.5 Inches).