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1989967500078New York: Longmeadow Press 1989. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Black Board Covers with Gilt Lettering to Spine; Covers are clean and Corners are sharp; White Endpapers; Square 6to; Dustjacket is Mylar wrapped; gilt spine lettering; Book is tight. bright and dustjacket is bright; Folio; 440 pages indexed; For the first time the entire text and the complete series of John James Audubon's paintings of the Quadrupeds appear in one volume. 155 full-color plates; Complete and unabridged; These superb paintings capture in exquisite detail the breathtaking beauty of the four-footed creatures that populated the North American forests and plains of Audubon's time; A very beautiful book collectable! Extra Postage required. <br/><br/>6.22#; P3; NA; MS0.00; OD090811; ACQ5/93; C-98; Longmeadow Press hardcover
1979002752Ann Arbor MI: Bear Claw Press 1979. First edition. Softcover. Very Good. 8vo wrappers <br/><br/>Inscribed by the illustrator Tom Pohrt to Dorothy Sloan in 1986. Bear Claw Press paperback
195326188London: Trustees of the British Museum 23 December 1953. First edition from the British Museum Natural History. With a map of Africa as frontispiece folding map of the Union of South Africa and folding map of Southern Africa north of the Union. 4to publisher's original green buckram with painted spine label. 363 pp. including index. Internally very fine the binding solid and clean with some minor toning from light and with the painted label mellowed with lettering unclear. AN IMPORTANT WORK a reclassification of the mammals of the area based on the extensive material in the study collections of the British Museum and Transvaal Museum as well as specimens in the South African Museum and information from recent workers in the field. Trustees of the British Museum hardcover
19435713Chicago : Published by the author 1943 . First Limited edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo 158 pages light blue cloth with some fading inset photograph of foxy on top cover. <br/><br/>Copy 242 of 990: Presentation inscription to Malcom Schueren. Schueren's hobby was hunting mountain lions away from his job in Chicago advertising. " While the facts as they are set forth are based mostly on my personal experiences items have been included from other sportsment and professional lion hunters who have together killed more than a thousand lions. . I trust this information will rectify some of the erroneous legends that have been told about our principal predatory animal the American Mountain Lion - Foreword." Many photogravures. Published by the author hardcover
19444754No place: Published by the author 1944 . First edition. Stapled wrappers. Near Fine. 8vo pictorial stapled wrappers lightly edgeworn. Unknown. No Copy Located Elsewhere. <br/><br/>The cover illustration of a fox in "flight" is by Robert W. Hines aka Bob Hines " one of the great wildlife artists and illustrators of the 20th century . . He was a nationally recognized wildlife artist whose work became a crucial factor in a wave of interest in nature and conservation. Like Roger Tory Peterson Hines helped educate a public eager to see understand and protect the environment - Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History." The Peterson Institute hosted an exhibition of Hines's work in 2014 but this is an earlier piece than any shown in their exhibit. With a map. Published by the author unknown
1909039178Edinburgh: M'Farlane & Erskine 1909. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo. 64 pages' folding map with hand-coloured wash. Publisher's hardback binding with printed boards very good and bright contents clean and tight many pages unopened little toning to end papers. This is a dedicated reprint with separate pagination of the "Presidential Address to the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh for Session 1906-1907." A very good to fine copy. Scarce. M'Farlane & Erskine Hardcover
1977biblio698Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval 1977. Fine. <p>in4 xxv 406p ill coul n&b rel toile de l'éd Jaquette ill 2e édition revue corrigée et augmentée</p> Presses de l'Université Laval unknown
19784568tUSA: Garland STPM Press. Good. Hardcover. 1978. 296 pages. reasonable ex library d/j had been plastic protected<br><p></p> . Garland STPM Press hardcover
1998020131U.S.A.: Princeton University Press 1998. 231 pages with colour illustrations. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Princeton University Press Hardcover
1990024554New York New York U.S.A.: Springer Verlag 1990. Illustrated laminated boards. 562 pages with b/w illustrations. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Springer Verlag Hardcover
1914035044London: The Foxhound 1914. Book. Illus. by Sir A. E. Pease. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp 112 includes photographic plates and in text illustrations by Pease. Original green hardback binding with black lettering to spine and boards with decorative vignette a little handling wear binding firm. Contents clean and tight original endpapers attractive plate belonging to Peter Conder water staining to a few pages on the top corner not affecting text or plates no inscriptions. A very good copy of the scarce title. Peter Conder ornithologist and conservationist previous Director of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. The Foxhound Hardcover
1989009259Chipping Norton NSW Australia: Surrey Beatty & Sons 1989. New endpapers. A few small marks to the minor title page of volume 1. A total of 835 pages with colour and b/w illustrations. Heavy set 3.3kg. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Surrey Beatty & Sons Hardcover
193039976Macmillan 1930. 8vo. First Edition with very numerous illustrations and diagrams in the text small signature on front free endpaper; original green ribbed cloth gilt back corners bruised else a very good bright clean copy in dustrapper the latter with loss at backstrip and edges. An important survey by the Linacre Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at Oxford. Includes an extensive bibliography. Macmillan, hardcover
1925038642United Kingdom 1925. Drawing. Illus. by Leonard Brightwell. Near Fine. Framed. Signed by THE ARTIST. Original. Etching dry point on laid paper signed and titled by the artist one of Brightwell's finest works of animal art completed around 1925. Published in London by the British company "James Connell & Sons" in a run of one hundred impressions. Plate 305mm x 220mm. Paper is lightly cockled but otherwise fine and unmarked with a deep acid free fine mount. Black stained wooden frame in fine condition. Framed dimension 530mm x 440mm. A characterful and humorous work. Biography - Leonard Robert Brightwell London Born 1889 - 1962 An outstanding British etcher illustrator and author of animal subjects Leonard Robert Brightwell studied at the Lambeth School of Art London. Countless visits to the Zoological Gardens however provided his most important artistic education. Brightwell became a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London in 1906 and a member of the Marine Biological Association in 1922. During the first half of the twentieth century he was commissioned by these associations and other museums to make scientific drawings of various forms of life including extinct animals. Brightwell's first illustrated book A British Dog in France was published in 1913. During the First World War 1914-1918 he served in the British Army. After 1920 Brightwell established himself as a major illustrator and as an author. Books written and illustrated by him include A Cartoonist among Animals 1921 On the Seashore 1934 The Zoo You Knew 1936 Neptune's Garden 1937 The Dawn of Life 1938 The Garden Naturalist 1941 The Zoo Story 1952 and Down to the Sea 1954.His cartoons often appeared in the Punch Magazine. . unknown
1929038817United Kingdom 1929. Drawing. Illus. by Leonard Brightwell. Fine. Framed. Signed by THE ARTIST. Original. A group of eleven kanagroos gathered and with a witty title "An Australian Eleven" alluding to a cricket XI. Etching dry point on laid paper signed and titled by the artist this one completed around 1929. Published in London by the British company "James Connell & Sons". Plate 345mm x 250mm. Paper unmarked fine with a new conservation grade acid free fine mount. Black stained wooden frame in fine condition. Framed dimension 580mm x 430mm. A characterful and humorous work. Provenance - plate to the back of James Connell & Sons in Glasgow. James Connell was well known for dealing in prints along with publishing both in Glasgow and London. Biography - Leonard Robert Brightwell London Born 1889 - 1962 An outstanding British etcher illustrator and author of animal subjects Leonard Robert Brightwell studied at the Lambeth School of Art London. Countless visits to the Zoological Gardens however provided his most important artistic education. Brightwell became a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London in 1906 and a member of the Marine Biological Association in 1922. During the first half of the twentieth century he was commissioned by these associations and other museums to make scientific drawings of various forms of life including extinct animals. Brightwell's first illustrated book A British Dog in France was published in 1913. During the First World War 1914-1918 he served in the British Army. After 1920 Brightwell established himself as a major illustrator and as an author. Books written and illustrated by him include A Cartoonist among Animals 1921 On the Seashore 1934 The Zoo You Knew 1936 Neptune's Garden 1937 The Dawn of Life 1938 The Garden Naturalist 1941 The Zoo Story 1952 and Down to the Sea 1954.His cartoons often appeared in the Punch Magazine. . unknown
