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Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: xiv, 107 pp. Added illustrated title page; color frontispiece and 40 color plates plus numerous plates in black and white. Oversized folio, publisher's green gilt-lettered cloth; t.e.g. First edition; No. 141 of 600 copies in the Large Paper edition. Armorial bookplate on pastedown; tissue guard opposite the frontispiece torn and creased; extremities of cloth frayed with a small area of repair to the spine. Overall very good. Additional postage applicable for this large, heavy volume.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$376.51 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: large paper Edition Limited to 600 copies. xiv, 107pp. Folio. 1/2 green cloth over olive cloth with gilt titles and ruling to front board and gilt title to spine. Board rubbed and bumped; bottom corners worn through to bookboard. T.e.g. Front endpapers discoloured; lower edge dust stained. Top right corner of text block bumped with light foxing to first few pages, else internally clean. With 6 photogravures, 41 coloured plates and 25 uncoloured plates. Most tissue guards present if a bit wrinkled. Large paper copy limited to 600 copies, this being 324. very good An attractively produced book on British surface-feeding ducks. The plates are an interesting mix of engravings, illustrations, colour photographs and 8 fine chromolithographs by A Thorburn. Of interest to both the hunter and natural historian, this book details the life histories of several species, including the Mallard, Gadwall, Wigeon, Teal, and Pintail.
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
Price: US$548.28 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 4to. 1902. Edition limited to 600 copies on large paper. This No. 210. c.p. 6 photogravures + 41 colour plates (of which 12 are chromolithos). Tissue guards to chromolithos. Armorial bookplate to upper paste-down. Ink inscription to f.e.p. Foxing to e.p.s and light browning to pages,mainly margins. Damp stain affecting margin of frontis. T.e.g. A good copy in original green boards. Sympathetic buckram respine. Corners bumped, a few minor marks and minor lifting to edge of cloth on lower board. Good. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: Tombland Bookshop, Norwich, NFLK, United Kingdom
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: London, New York, Bombay and Calcutta: Longmans, Green and Co. 1902. 1st edition. Folio. Limited edition. #109/600. [10] + xiv + additional pictorial title + 6 photogravure plates + 41 colour plates (of which 13 chromolithographed) after Millais and Archibald Thorburn, and 18 uncoloured plates on 25 sheets, some wood-engraved with tissue guards. Top edge gilt. Title page in red and black print. Bookplate of Gordon Booth. Very light spotting from foxing at the preliminaries leaves, and rear leaves after the text. Plates are all fine. Original cloth. Fine. This title comes from the distinguished library of J. Fenwick Lansdowne (1937-2008), the award winning British Columbia artistand 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. That Lansdowne owned a deluxe, and costly edition of Audubon's work, the Bird of America which suggests that Lansdowne not only prized Audubon's illustrations, found inspiration in them, but perhaps tried to emulate the American artist for his magisterial depiction of wildlife, in particular birds. Lansdowne was born in Hong Kong and in 1940 moved to Victoria, British Columbia where he worked and resided for the rest of his life. When he was only 19 years old, the Royal Ontario Museum mounted an exhibition of his watercolours. He later went on to exhibit at the Smithsonian, the American Museum of Natural History, and Audubon House in New York. In the mid 1960s, he would go on to provide illustrations for bird books as well as limited edition prints based on the large watercolour and gouache paintings used to illustrate books. He is best known as the illustrator of sumptuous books. Lansdowne was awarded the Order of Canada and made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1977, as an ornithological artist of wide renown, with the rare ability not only to be essentially correct in his paintings of birds, but to portray them so they seemingly come to life. In 1995, he received the Order of British Columbia.
Seller: Bjarne Tokerud Bookseller, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Price: US$580.53 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No 78 of a limited edition of 600 copies of the large paper edition. xiv + 107pp + photogravure and cold plates as called for. A little light foxing, not affecting plates. Boards slightly rubbed but very good/near fine hardback in publishers original two tone green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration.
Seller: Elaine Beardsell, HOLMFIRTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$580.53 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xiv, 107, [1], 41 col plates, 8 photogravures, 16 b/w plates. 345x320mm. HB. Large-4to, orig. cloth, gt lettering to spine and front board, teg, some wear to extremities, corners lightly bumped. Light foxing to endpapers; old light water stains to lower inner corner of pages and plates, in places almost imperceptible, and to upper inner margin of Index leaves. Overall, an attractive copy. The present copy is copy No. 361 of 600. First edition - large paper edition limited to only 600 copies. An account, based on personal observations, of the habits and modes of life of the forms of birds treated in the book and of the circumstances connected with their periodical change of plumage. The figures of birds are mostly drawn from the specimens in the author's collection; a few rare forms are figures from specimens in the collection of Walter Rothschild, while Heatley Noble's collection was used for the eggs and young birds in down. The illustrations were executed from drawings by the author or from photographs, with the exception of the water-colour drawings for eight of the coloured plates made by Archibald Thorburn. The coloured plates are mostly executed in chromo-lithography by W. Greve, and a few by the three colour process by Andre & Sleigh, Bushey. John Guille Millais (1865-1931) was British a naturalist, distinguished wildlife artist, and also wrote a two-volume biography of his father, the artist John Everett Millais (1829-1896).Anker, 340; Nissen IVB, 635.
Seller: PEMBERLEY NATURAL HISTORY BOOKS BA, ABA, Iver, United Kingdom
Price: US$890.14 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION - LIMITED TO 600 COPIES OF WHICH THIS IS NUMBER 18. SMALL FOLIO, BEAUTIFULLY REBOUND IN HALF GREEN MOROCCO, MARBLED ENDPAPERS, TEG, WITH 6 PHOTOGRAVURES. 41 TISSUE-GUARDED COLOURED PLATES (SOME BY THORBURN) AND 25 OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS. SOME FOXING TO THE EDGES OF A FEW PLATES, BUT A VERY NICE CLEAN AND FIRM COPY IN A LOVELY BINDING. A VERY HEAVY BOOK - EXTRA POSTAGE WILL BE REQUIRED FOR OVERSEAS.
Seller: Hawkridge Books, Bakewell, United Kingdom
MILLAIS J.G.. The Natural History Of The British Surface Feeding Ducks. Longmans Green and Co, 1902.
Price: US$919.81 + shipping
Description: xiv 107 pages, top edge gilt ,folio with 6 photogravures, 41 coloured plates and 25 other illustrations, the colour plates are by Thorburn and Millais, light spotting to FEP and prelims o/w contents clean and free of spotting. Two armorial bookplates to the front paste down. A vg+ copy seldom found in this condition limited to 600 numbered copies, this is No 202, the book covers 10 species of duck commonly found and details, their natural history, habits, plumage and shooting Chute 452. £620
Seller: Hereward Books, Ely, CAMBR, United Kingdom
MILLAIS, J.G.. The Natural History of British Surface-Feeding Ducks.. , 1902.
Price: US$2167.31 + shipping
Description: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1902. Large 4to. Original half dark green cloth, over olive green cloth sides, titled in gilt on spine and upper cover, top edges gilt; xiv + pp. pp. 147, with 41 chromolithographed plates by Archibald Thorburn and Millais himself, and 24 other plates, including 6 detailed landscape photogravures; occasional faint spotting, mainly to endpapers, very good. Large paper copy, number 228 of 600 copies only. A celebrated work on British ducks with some marvellous examples of Thorburn and Millais's art. "A beautifully illustrated treatise." by "This celebrated animal artist" (Wood). Chute: "This covers 10 species of duck commonly found, and details their natural history; habits; plumage and shooting." Scarce. Nissen IVB 635; Zimmer p. 346; Anker 340; Wood p. 464; Chute 452.
Seller: Henry Sotheran Ltd, London, United Kingdom