Price: US$58.48 + shipping
Description: , xii, 96 pages, 46 black and white plates First Edition , edges, corners and spine heavily worn, small portion missing from base of spine, missing plates 1, 4 and 43, many tears to pages and plates which have been fixed with tape and reinforced at edges, ex library label to front free endpaper and library stamps to reverse of plates, fair condition , quarter blue morocco with blue cloth boards, gilt titles to spine, , quarto, 36.5 cm x 26 cm Hardback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Ernest E. Thompson. Studies in the Art Anatomy of Animals. MacMillan, London, 1896.
Price: US$194.93 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Large folio. 1896. 87pp. 47 plates. Title page signed by the author as Ernest Thompson Seton with his signature paw print. together with pasted on presentation inscription from the author to Miller Christy (probably Essex ornithologist and naturalist). Early pages marginally smoke stained. Plates with lightish damp stain, with associated cockling. Included are three mounted photographic plates (probably from the Call of the Wild) each numbered with a signed presentation inscription from Seton. Publishers' cloth gilt boards (detached). Spine defective and rear board showing significant signs of damp. Images available on request.
Seller: Bath House Books, Ditchingham, United Kingdom
Price: US$272.90 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Thompson, Ernest E. Seton. Studies in the Art Anatomy of Animals: Being a brief analysis of the visible forms of the more familiar mammals and birds. Designed for the use of sculptors, painters, illustrators, naturalists, and taxidermists / illustrated with one hundred drawings by the author. London: Macmillan & Co., 1896. Hardback, Good. Green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to front and spine, blind embossed bands. Boards are bumped to corners and edges, with numerous marks and shallow scratches, extensive rubbing and scratching to reverse. Binding strong with a slight forward lean. Tanning to endpapers. Fep with ownership signature dated 1907. Illustrated title page. 96pp. Some internal tanning and foxing to plates and elsewhere, but the contents mostly clean and bright. Top edge of page block in gilt. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.
Seller: RightWayUp Books, Woodbridge, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 96 Pages. 49 Plates. Tips Of Spine Slightly Worn. Bound In The Original Green Cloth.
Seller: William H. Allen Bookseller, Shillington, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$492.77 + shipping
Description: folio. 38cm,First Edition, 96,[49]p. with 49 plates, original dark green cloth, gilttitles and decorations, t.e.g., bookplate, expertly restored, internallibrary stamps otherwise a near fine copy. (cgc) Seton's firsthardcover book. An elaborate manual it is the first book of animalanatomy for artists.
Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: 96 pages. Folio, 38 x 27 cm. Author's first book with 100 drawings by him. Index. As the author notes in his introduction, "There have been great genre painters who did not study anatomy, but there has never been a famous "animalier" who did not. Tipped-in at rear, "Magazine of Art" article on anatomical nature casts. Chipping at spine extremities and corners, back board with two narrow gauge penetrations not affecting images, small stain lower fore-edge of title page not affecting text. Orig. green cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. Teg. Very good
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.