Work art society two (9 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Boston Book and Art Boston, MA January 1970 Binding.

dj. First Edition. First edition. Hardcover. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket that has some minor wear.

First Edition; small 4to; cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine; hardcover; 96 pages; color and black and white illustrations; a very good clean tight copy in a rubbed and egeworn pictorial dust jacket.

hardcover. Numerous Illus., some color. Thin 4to, cloth, d.w. Boston, (1970).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. First edition. Very good in good dust jacket. Pages clean. Edges of spine bumped. Clean cover. Dustwrapper price clipped. Half of front dust jacket flap torn off. Dustwrapper shelf rubbed. Small tears on edges of dust jacket spine.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Book and dust jacket and slightly rubbed on corners/edges.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Part of the Welsh Arts Council's Art and Society series, based on their exhibition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. First. "THE FOUNDATION OF SCIENTIFIC ORNITHOLOGY" First edition in English. London: Printed by A[ndrew] C[larke] for John Martyn, 1678. Folio in 4s (14" x 8 7/8", 355mm x 235mm). [Full collation available.] With 80 etched-engraved plates (2 bird-catching diagrams, 78 ornithological) and 2 typeset plates of charts. Bound in contemporary speckled calf with a double blind fillet border. With a vertical division near the spine-edge of a double blind fillet and a blind scalloped roll. On the spine, six raised bands with gilt rolls. In the panels, a double gilt fillet border surrounding gilt scrollwork. Title gilt to the second panel within a double gilt fillet border. Gilt roll to the edges of the boards. All edges of the text-block speckled red. Both boards starting at the upper edges, but still solid. With some rubbing and staining generally. With marginal worming at the lower edge from the front paste-down to Qq3, not affecting the text. Altogether a bright copy with fine margins (some 40mm at the fore, 30mm at the bottom and 20mm at the top) and an exceptional impression of the plates. On the title-page, the early ink inscription "Hindlater" (?). Willughby (1635-1672) was the pupil of Ray (1627-1705) at Trinity College, Cambridge, long a hub of natural science. Willughby revolutionized the taxonomy of birds by classing them not according to their edibility or personalities, but by the ways their habitat and behavior interacted with their physical forms. He died young, however, and it was his tutor Ray who brought his work to press, first in Latin (Ornithologiae libri tres. London, 1676) and here in English. These paved the way for later organizational developments under Linnaeus and, ultimately, Darwin. Anker 532, Ayer/Zimmer II.677, Nissen IVB 991, ESTC R9288.…

First edition in English; folio (39 x 25 cm); 80 engraved plates comprising 78 plates of birds showing multiple subjects numbered 1-LXXVIII, and 2 un-numbered plates of netting, bookplate, some minor tears to a few pages; occasional light soiling, contemporary calf, neat restoration to edges and extremities, a very good copy; [12], 53, [3], 55-271, [3], 273-441, [7] pp. The most celebrated early English ornithology. 'It is difficult to underestimate what enormous labour this work entailed. Willughby and Ray's goal was to see, describe and dissect every known bird â" assumed to be about 500 at that time (in fact, we now know that there are around 10,000 species of birds in the world). Their second aim was to use these descriptions to construct a biologically meaningful classification of birds. The efficacy of Willughby and Ray's classification of birds was obvious to Carl Linnaeus who, a century later used it more or less unchanged in his own System Naturae' (Tim Birkenhead, The Wonderful Mr. Willoughby). Keynes, Ray 39; Nissen IVB 991, Norman II, 1792; Wing W 2880.…