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The Ibis a quarterly journal of ornithology
16386London: John van Voorst 1883-1886; Gurney and Jackson 1887-1903; R.H. Porter 1904-1913; British Ornithologists’ Union 1914-1932. FIRST EDITIONS. Hundreds of exquisite full-page lithographed plates many hand-colored after J.G. Keulemans J. Wolf J. Jennens H. Gronvold and others text illustrations distribution maps and tables. The first group of volumes also contain a list of members of the Union and the date of their election. The first six volumes bound in contemporary half-calf over marbled boards spine in compartments with the remaining volumes in library cloth and most have the original printed wrappers bound in where the journal was issued quarterly; interior excellent. Bookplate withdrawn of Trinity College Library on the paste-downs; a wonderful set. First printings of this famous journal of ornithology. <br /> <br /> Included are:<br /> <br /> Fifth series Volumes 1 1883 - 6 1888<br /> Sixth series Volumes 1 1889 - 6 1894<br /> Seventh series Volumes 1 1895 - 2 1896<br /> Eighth series Volumes 2 1902 - 6 1906<br /> Ninth series Volumes 1 1907 - 6 1912<br /> Tenth series Volumes 1 1913 - 6 1918<br /> Eleventh series Volumes 1 1919 - 6 1924<br /> Twelfth series Volumes 1 1925 - 6 1930<br /> Thirteenth series Volumes 1 1931 - 2 1932<br /> <br /> Authors include G.E. Shelley Sclater John Henry Gurney Edward Hargitt William C. Tait Henry Seebohm Osbert Salvin O. Finsch W. L. Buller R. Bowdler Sharpe Scott B. Wilson; literally all of the great ornithologists throughout the publishing history of this journal. Sclater 1829-1913 a co-founder and editor of Ibis was a well-known and highly productive over 1400 publications ornithologist by trade. He is also remembered for his 1858 paper setting out the faunal regions classification of zoogeography later adopted by Alfred Russel Wallace. He was also secretary of the Zoological Society of London a member of more than forty professional societies at home and abroad and a council member of the Royal Society of London. Assisting him as co-editor of some of the issues was Howard Saunders or A.H. Evans until 1931 when C.B. Ticehurst took over as editor.<br /> Now subtitled the International Journal of Avian Science it is in its present form a peer-reviewed scientific journal which covers ecology conservation behavior palaeontology and taxonomy of birds. For it’s first nearly one hundred years however the journal focused on a more popularistic type of article often introducing species and images to the public for the first time.<br /> <br /> A group of friends mostly wealthy collectors of bird specimens founded the British Ornithologists' Union in 1858 with the primary intent of starting an ornithological journal. The first volume of the journal The Ibis appeared in 1859. Lists of species observed by traveling ornithologists and long catalogues of specimens obtained on expeditions filled the journal. “This random fact gathering on distribution persisted unchanged from 1859 to the 1940s.†In her article entitled “The Ibis: Transformations in a Twentieth Century British Natural History Journal†in Journal of the History of Biology October 2004 Volume 37 No. 3 pp. 515–555 Kristin Johnson points out in a much more complete and professional manner the difference between “popular†ornithology and “scientific†ornithology study of the living bird in its natural environment more on a biological aspect the transition of which occurred post-1940. Meanwhile the articles appearing in the Ibis were geared more toward the popularization of the science and the spread of knowledge of geographic distribution and the habits and patterns of the various bird species. John van Voorst (1883-1886); Gurney and Jackson (1887-1903); R.H. Porter (1904-1913); British Ornithologists’ Union (1914-1932 unknown
