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Price: US$56.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 226 pages. Oversized. Some stains and wear to the covers; pages discolored with age; a good reference book. Illustrations include color plates of some bird species. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Animals & Birds; Inventory No: 204502.
Seller: Easy Chair Books, Lexington, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This book is hard-bound in brown cloth with gilt stamping to the spine. The covers show some light scuffing and soiliong, edge-wear, and rubbing to the joints, corners, and spine-ends. The upper hinge is cracked and the text-block shows the beginning of separation at a few spots, with a few of the signatures (groups of pages) and pages loosening or loose, laid-in. The contents are bright and generally clean, with illustrations, including some very nice chromolithograph (color) illustrations, but also with some scattered soiling/toning, foxing.
Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$83.74 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 226, 11 attractive chromolithographs of birds, 15 plain plates of fishes. . HB. 4to, cloth, a little rubbed and slightly worn at corners. A good copy. Report No. 2 of the Arctic series, US Army Signal Service.
Seller: PEMBERLEY NATURAL HISTORY BOOKS BA, ABA, Iver, United Kingdom
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Results of Investigations Made Chiefly in the Yukon District and the Aleutian Islands; Conducted Under the Auspices of the Signal Services, United States Army, Extending from May, 1874, to August, 1881. Prepared under the direction of Brig. and Bvt. Maj. Gen. W. B. Hazen. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1886. 4to. 226pp. With 26 plates,10 in colour. Original green cloth, very light rubbing. Very good. This title comes from the distinguished library of J. Fenwick Lansdowne (1937-2008), the award winning British Columbia artist and illustrator whose accurate and artistic depictions of birds are prized around the world by museums and collectors. HIS ARTISTICALLY DESIGNED BOOKPLATE IS TIPPED IN. The paintings of James Fenwick Lansdowne have been compared to those of John James Audubon. He's exhibited at the Smithsonian, the American Museum of Natural History, and Audubon House in New York.
Seller: Bjarne Tokerud Bookseller, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Evidence of moisture damage to front board. Worn along bottom edge of front board. Tail lacking one and a half inches of material at tail. Very small, chip in material on top edge of front board and front edge of spine. Light wear to all edges. Front hinge starting to crack at head and tail of spine, still attached. Last free end page chipped at fore-edge corners. Previous owner's markings on front end-papers. Plate 6, Plate 7, Plate 8 and P. 95 are loose but present. Condition is only good. Additional shipping may be necessary due to size and weight.
Seller: The Dawn Treader Book Shop, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: . . . . 4to, hardcover. No dj, black cloth. Good condition. Two separate publications, bound together. Light old tidemarking that affects upper edge of text and Plates; previous owner's name on front endpaper. Binding secure. 226, 337 pp., 26, 21 Plates, all bird Plates in color.
Seller: Tiber Books, Cockeysville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Quarto. 226 pp., 26 plates, including 11 color chromolithographs of birds. Original black cloth. Rubbing, chipping to cloth. Offsetting to plates. No. 2 Arctic series of publications issued in connection with the signal service, US Army. Results of investigations made chiefly in the Yukon district of the Aleutian Islands extending from May 1874 to August 1881. Nissen, ZBI, 4184. Arctic Bibliography 18091. This is an oversized or heavy book, that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: pp. 226 + 11 Color chromolithograph plates of birds, drawn by Robert & John L. Ridgway; and Giles Lithograph & Liberty Printing Co., New York. The great bird plates have some damp stain, but could be easily washed. + Plus 15 line drawn plates of fish. Folio. Most of the original full leather binding remains, but it is best to consider this as disbound. Arctic Series of Publications issued in Connection with the Signal Service, U.S. Army, No. II. The bird illustrators deserve special note. Robert Ridgway (1850-1929) was one America's leading ornithologists. At the age of 17, he was appointed zoologist on a geological survey of the 40th parallel. From 1874 until his death, he served as ornithologist and curator of the Smithsonian Institute. Ridgway established a system of color standards and nomenclature that is still used today. Robert's younger brother John was chief illustrator for United States Geological Survey and an artist for the California Institute of Technology and Carnegie Institution of Washington. Check References: Nissen, ZBI, 4184 and 2962; Bennett, p. 107; Wickersham 7836; Ricks p. 222; Arctic Bibliography 18091 & 18092; Ayer Zimmer, pages. 463 & 643 644. W155 Language: eng
Seller: FAMILY ALBUM, Kinzers, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$143.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 226 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with 26 colour plates. Some of the tissue pages opposite the plates are creased. Some holes and tears on the first few pages. Previous owner's signature on the fpdep. Page edges are lightly darkened and stained. Bound in brown cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Worn around the edges. Boards are stained and scuffed. Arctic series of Publications issued in Connection with the Signal Service, U. S. Army, No. 2. 1ST EDITION. VG/- - Size: 9 x 12
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 226 pp. 26 plates, including 11 chromolithographs. 4to, publisher's black cloth. First edition. Contents clean and fine; cloth sunned, with some fraying and use at edges. Tight and sound. Arctic Series of Publications Issued in Connection with the Signal Service, U. S. Army, No. 2.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$171.00 + shipping
Description: 4to [30 x 23 cm]; 226 pp, 26 plates, including 11 fine color lithographs (chromolithographs) of birds from Ridgway's paintings, others of fish (complete), tables. original cloth, with gilt spine title lettering, cover slightly marked, spine trifle faded, clean near fine copy, the plates in good impressions and with tissue guards. An important contribution covering meteorology, plants, listing over 800 species; fish, listing 47 species from Bering Sea and Aleutian waters; birds, annotated listing of 172 species with another list of 269 species; mammals, listing 69 species including dolphins and whales, and with excellent plates. Bennet 107, whose copy only had 10 color plates: 'The ten finely colored plates all appear in part V. They show Alaskan birds and were the work of R. and J. L. Ridgway'. Ricks 222. Hasse p. 78. Wood 605. A picture of this book is available on request.
Seller: Horizon Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Edition : First edition, Later ¼ dark brown morocco with cloth boards, red morocco label stamped in gilt., Bound together with Nelson, Edward W. Report upon Natural History Collections Made in Alaska between the Years 1877 and 1881. Edited by Henry W. Henshaw. Washington: Government Printing Office. 1887. First edition., Size : 4to, 15 plates of fishes and 11 colour plates of birds. 12 colour plates of birds and 9 plates of fishes together 23 coloured plates of birds and 24 black & white plates of fishes., References : Nissen, ZBI, 4184 and 2962., [2], 226pp.; 337pp.
Seller: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Canada