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1894S414431894. 6 col plates. . HB. 4to rebound in recent buckram with leather title piece to spine. Vg. The text only for Vol. I No 2 is here bound with the plates for Vol. I No 1. Contents: Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Phytophagous Coleoptera obtained by W. Doherty in the Malayan Archipelago by Martin Jacoby pp. 267-330; An Account of a Collection of Diurnal Lepidoptera made by Mr W. Doherty at Humboldt Bay Dutch New Guinea and in neighbouring islands by H. Grose Smith pp. 331-365 543-551; New Genera and Species of Geometridae by W. Warren pp. 366-466; First Glimpses of the Zoology of the Natuna Islands by Walter Rothschild pp. 467-483 and several other short papers. The text for Vol. I No 2 calls for 3 plates which are not present. The 6 fine chromolithographic plates bound in this volume illustrate the text in the previous part - Vol. I No 1 - and are by F.W. Frohawk 3 of Sphingidae Lep. and 3 of Cerambycidae Col. hardcover
185748172Paris : P. Jannet et Paul Daffis 1857 et 1858. 170x100mm. LXXX XXXIX - 358Êpages reliures percaline dÕditeur rouges. Plats orns froid. Titres collection et motifs dors au dos. Teinte du dos un peu passe sinon en bon tat. 620 P. Jannet et Paul Daffis unknown
1900VZ331441900 Novitates Zoologicae, 7(2), 1900 : in-4°, broché extrait, pp. 277-278, 1 planche en couleurs de Smit (II).
1895VZ331461895 Novitates Zoologicae, 2(1), 1895 : in-4°, broché extrait, pp. 51-52, 1 planche en couleurs de Keulemans (I),
189614436Mâcon: Protat frères 1896. Fine. Protat frères Mâcon 1896 12 x 19 cm broché First edition. Patience the source of all virtues the use of money God's protection what is true education Spine split with lacks at head and foot worming to front cover. Protat frères unknown
189614436Protat frères | Mâcon 1896 | 12 x 19 cm | broché
1896050805London Uk: Macmillan And Company 1896. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Tissue Guarded Plates. 269 Pp. Blue Cloth Gilt. Near Fine Slight Usage Gilt Brilliant Cloth Clean With Slight Rubbing No Fraying. Front Hinge Partly Cracked Former Owner's Name Byers Signed At Belfast. Baron Ferdinand De Rothschild 1839 - 1898 Also Known As Ferdinand James Anselm Freiherr Von Rothschild Was A British Jewish Banker Art Collector And Politician Who Was A Member Of The Prominent Rothschild Family Of Bankers. He Identified As A Liberal Later Liberal Unionist And Sat As A Member Of Parliament In The House Of Commons From 1885 To 1898. Ferdinand Had A Younger Sister Alice Who Like Her Brother Was A Keen Horticulturalist And Collector. She Inherited Ferdinand's Property Waddesdon Manor In 1898 After He Died And Likewise Continued The Tradition Of Using The House As A Place To Keep His Impressive Collections. In This Book Rothschild Demonstrates The Facility Of The Accepted Elites In Talking At Length About Powerful Yet Dispicable People Yet Never Criticizing Their Grievous Faults. <br/> <br/> Macmillan And Company hardcover
1894VZ332831894 Novitates Zoologicae, 1(4), 1894 : in-4°, broché extrait, pp. 666, 1 planche en couleurs hors-texte par Keulemans (XII). Très bon état.
187076821870 broché in-douze, dos jaune, couverture jaune,non rogné en partie non coupé, orné d'un portrait de Rothschild en frontispice, 62 pages, 1870 Paris Librairie des Contemporains Editeur,
184646563Paris: Ballay Aine 1846. First edition. Softcover. g to vg. 12mo 7 1/4 x 4 3/4". 36pp. Original printed wrappers.<br /> <br /> James de Rothschild's humorous response to an anti-semitic pamphlet by Mathieu Dairnvaell who accused him of being responsible for the fatal railway accident which occured in July 1846 on the Chemin de Fer du Nord James de Rothschild’s newly opened railway line. The event provided a focus for anti-semitism in France at the time.<br /> <br /> This work is illustrated with five in-text woodcuts.<br /> <br /> Wrappers slightly creased along edges. Text in French. Wrappers in overall good interior in very good condition. Ballay Aine unknown
1895VV341901895 Published in: Novitates Zoologicae. This beautiful plate was drawn and lithographed by J.G. Keulemans.
189543621Wien Vienna: Friedrich Jasper 1895. Limited First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. 1/160. Elephant folio 18 3/4 x 14 1/4". 12 67 1pp Text 44 leaves Color map and Photo plates Vol. 1; 12 73 1pp Text 32 leaves Color map and Photo plates Vol. 2. Uncut. Original gilt-stamped full calf with gold lettering and tooling to front covers and spines. Raised bands. Dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Tissue-guarded photo-illustrated title page in each volume. Decorative initials. <br /> <br /> The author of this work Nathaniel Mayer von Rothschild 1836-1905 was the eldest son of the banker Anselm Salomon Freiherr von Rothschild. As he was not really interested in the affairs of the family he left the bank early to work exclusively as an art collector travel writer amateur photographer flower grower and generous benefactor. <br /> <br /> In this two-volume set published for his immediate circle of friends Nathaniel Rothschild describes the two Mediterranean trips he carried out with his friend Baron August Twickel in 1893 and 1894 onboard the "Aurora" first voyage and the "Thalia" second voyage. <br /> <br /> Splendidly and lavishly illustrated throughout with 1 color map 43 full-page and 50 in-text collotypes the first volume is dedicated to the first voyage and describes the following places: Livorno Corsica La Goulette Hammam Meskoutin Biskra Bougie Algiers Oran Alicante Ibiza Palma de Mallorca and Barcelona. <br /> <br /> The second volume contains 1 color map 31 full-page and 50 in-text collotypes and describes the second voyage covering Dalmatia Montenegro Corfu Greece and Turkey. <br /> <br /> One of 160 numbered copies of which this is No. 107.<br /> <br /> Bindings with sporadic age-toning staining and rubbing. Sporadic foxing throughout. Text in German. Bindings in overall good- to good interior in good to very good condition. Friedrich Jasper hardcover
190016272London: R.H. Porter 1900. FIRST EDITION. With 83 plates including 55 hand-colored lithograph plates by and after J.G. Keulemans and F.W. Frowhawk 20 collotype plates from photographs including one duplicate plate “Group of Four White Albatrosses†and 8 monochrome plates all tissue guards present. Red half-morocco and cloth boards minor staining to a small portion of the front cover; other than some minor foxing to the paste-down and endleaves an outstanding copy with the original pink printed wrappers bound in. First edition of this landmark study of the birds of the Hawaiian Islands limited to 250 copies. Issued in three parts Rothschild provides a bibliography and brief survey of the origin and distribution of the Hawaiian avifauna. A summary of the diary of Henry Palmer an ornithologist employed by Rothschild who collected specimens on the islands between 1890 and 1893 forms the basis of this work. Palmer gathered a total of 1832 birds. The fine hand-colored plates were drawn and lithographed by Keulemans. Included are fifteen new species and a number which are now extinct and which are indicated by pencil notations in the text.<br /> <br /> Anker 429; Wood p. 543; Zimmer p. 532; Nissen IVB 794. R.H. Porter unknown
18805628J. Rothschild Éditeur 1880 369 pages in12. 1880. reliure editeur. 369 pages. Traduction libre par Stanislas Meunier de la onzième édition de l'ouvrage "Elements of agricultural chemistry and geology" des professeurs Johnston et Cameron. Ce traité pratique aborde la chimie et la géologie appliquées à l'agriculture publié initialement en 1880 et faisant partie d'une collection patrimoniale conservée par la BNF
185537364Pest-Wien-Leipzig, Hartleben, 1855. Kl.-8°. 1 Bl., 211 (1) S., 1 Bl., 215 (1) S., Späterer Ppbd. m. goldgepr. Rückenschild u. den eingeb. OUmschlägen.
190016257London: for the Society 1900. FIRST EDITION. Complete with 18 hand-colored lithographed plates of birds by Keulemans 2 hand-colored lithographed maps 4 duo-tone osteological plates and 10 text illustrations. Half morocco with the original blue printed rear wrapper bound in at the end. From the library of Dr. James M. Dolan Jr. curator of the San Diego Zoological Society with his bookplate and blind-stamp on lower blank margin of first leaf. An excellent copy with only very light browning on osteological plates. First edition as issued by the Zoological Society of London. Rothschild with Keulemans’ exquisite plates again outdoes himself. Rothschild was obsessed with the cassowary a giant flightless bird with a colorful neck native to Papua New Guinea and the surrounding islands. He invested huge amounts of money in bringing the species over to England both dead and alive in order to study their habits plumage and behavior. In this monograph Rothschild describes in minute detail all species and subspecies local names measurements distribution bibliography and all other pertinent information such as the anatomical and taxonomic information. Casey Wood refers to it as “a beautifully illustrated treatise†and Anker goes a step further by calling it “an especially profusely illustrated treatise.†The second section deals withâ€the relations of the Casuariidae to the remaining ‘Struthious’ forms and the position of these with regard to the ‘Carinatae’†introduction. Pycraft credits Rothschild for having furnished the bulk of the material for this monograph.<br /> <br /> Rothschild 1868-1937 2nd Baron Rothschild member of one of the world’s wealthiest familes was a British zoologist who became a great collector and founded the Rothschild Natural History Museum in London. The Zoological Society published a number of exquisite ornithological monographs in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century; this one is considered one of the most important as well as magnificent and beautifully illustrated monograph of the period. for the Society unknown
