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Description: xx, 406 Seiten, 2 Bll., goldgeprägter OHLdrbd., OLn.-Schuber (mit Lederbordüren an Kopf und Fuß des Einschubs), 36 x 24,5 cm. Mit eigenhändiger Signatur von Riplex und eigenhändiger Signatur von Landsdowne im Druckvermerk. Nummer 91 von 400 Exemplaren der Vorzugsausgabe. Ohne die im Kolophon erwähnte Original-Lithographie Landsdownes. - Mit 41 ganzseitigen farbigen Illustrationen (im Text) und zahlreichen schwarzweiß-Textabbildungen und Textillustrationen. - Buchgestaltung von Crimilda Pontes; gedruckt unter Aufsicht von Martino Mardersteig in der Stamperia Valdonega auf Magnani di Pescia Papier; Buchbindearbeiten von Recalcati, Milan. - Provenienz: Typographisches Exlibris für Sigfred Taubert auf dem vorderen Spiegel. Taubert (1914-2008) leitete von 1958 bis 1973 die Frankfurter Buchmesse. - Gering berieben und bestoßen; der Schuber mit der zarten Andeutung von Flecken; gutes Exemplar.
Seller: Antiquariat Tautenhahn, Lübeck, Germany
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Description: RIPLEY, Sidney Dillon (1913-2001). Rails of the World: A Monograph of the Family Rallidae. and a Chapter on Fossil Species by Storrs L. Olson. Boston: David R. Godine, 1977 Folio (14 x 10 inches). Fine lithograph of of a Rail numbered 193/400 and signed by the artist J.Fenwick Lansdowne lower left, loosely inserted as issued. Illustrated with 41 colour plates after Landsdowne and regional maps. Original publisher's half red morocco, natural linen, gilt; preserved in original morocco trimmed natural linen slipcase. Limited edition, number 193 of 400 copies signed by author and artist of a total edition of 420 copies. Ripley's interest in the birds of Southeast Asia when he joined the 1937-1938 Denison-Crocket expedition to New Guinea and the 1939 Vanderbilt Expedition to Sumatra, which resulted in a dissertation entitled "The Bird Fauna of the West Sumatra Islands: A Study in Speciation." Aware "of the growing tensions in Southeast Asia, in 1942 Ripley moved to Washington, D.C., serving briefly as assistant curator at the Smithsonian's U.S. National Museum, before joining the Office of Strategic Services led by William Donovan. Stationed in Ceylon Ripley served as liaison to Admiral Louis Mountbatten of the Southeast Asia Command. His OSS roommate, Paul Child, introduced Ripley to his fiancée, Julia McWilliams, and her roommate, Mary Moncrieffe Livingston, whom Ripley married in 1949. They had three daughters. "After World War II Ripley joined the faculty at Yale, serving as assistant, associate, and full professor of biology, and also as director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. Ripley enlivened the staid museum with dramatic exhibits and daring events, including a King Tut exhibit opening replete with belly dancers. Ripley continued exploring Southeast Asian birds with his wife, who developed expertise in botany and entomology, and his longtime collaborator, Dr. Sálim Ali of India. Ali and Ripley were considered the world's experts on birds of the Indian subcontinent, based on their 1961 Synopsis of the Birds of India and Pakistan. Their Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan, published in twelve volumes from 1968 to 1974, was their best known systematic work. Ripley's definitive monograph, Rails of the World (1977), was noted for the beauty of its illustrations by J. Fenwick Lansdowne. "In 1963 Ripley was recruited to become the eighth secretary (or chief operating officer) of the Smithsonian Institution. He led the Institution from 1964 to 1984, overseeing its greatest period of growth. Museums established during his tenure included the Anacostia Community Museum, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, National Air and Space Museum, National Museum of African Art, National Portrait Gallery, National Postal Museum, Renwick Gallery, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, and Cooper-Hewitt, the National Design Museum in New York" (Pamela M. Henson for ANB).
Seller: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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Condition: Fine
Description: No. 338 of 400 copies; signed on limitation page by author and illustrator. Tall, thick folio volume in slipcase. Bound in red leather and oatmeal-colored cloth with slipcase covered in same oatmeal-colored cloth with red leather trim. Full page color plates; B&W illustrations; maps. Condition: fine in fine slipcase. 406 pages.
Seller: Arnold M. Herr, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$272.07 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: HEAVY. xx, 406pp, index, bibliography, bvw line drawings and photographs, 17 distribution maps, 41 color plates (inc frontis). Or ivory cloth flecked with brown with red leather spine and corners (ie 1/2 leather) with titles in gilt to spine presented in sturdy cloth covered slipcase with red leather highlights at head and foot of open edge, patterned endpapers. Edition limited to 400 copies of which this #298, signed by both authors and numbered on limitation page ( colophon). Some toning/foxing to slipcase, and also the cloth of the rear cover, otherwise a very clean fresh copy. A narrow strip of color on the front free endpaper has been abraded in the removel of the previous owners name. This copy lacks the monochrome lithograph as is so often the case. An impressive, in both size (35.5 x 26 x 5cm) and content, monograph of the Rallidae, or rails, of the world. The full page color plates are spectacular and the scholarly text is well researched. An additional chapter on the fossil species rounds out this important volume. Size: Folio
Seller: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, Australia
Ripley, S. Dillon. RAILS OF THE WORLD. David R. Godine, Boston, 1977.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Collector's edition Limited to 400 copies signed by the author and artist, with a lithograph not included in the trade edition. Folio. xx, 406p. Illustrated with 41 paintings by J. Fenwick Lansdowne beautifully printed in color. Printed at the Stamperia Valdonega under the direction of Martino Mardersteig. Bound by Recalcati on Lilan in quarter red morocco with cloth sides, t.e.g., the spine with gilt titles and gilt rules around the panels, housed in linen slipcase with leather edges. Includes a chapter on fossil species by Storrs L. Olson. Collector's edition Limited to 400 copies signed by the author and artist, with a lithograph not included in the trade edition.
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.