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BEEBE, Charles William (1877-1962). A Monograph of the Pheasants. London: Witherby, 1918-1922.
已結束2012年6月13日
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BEEBE, Charles William (1877-1962). A Monograph of the Pheasants. London: Witherby, 1918-1922.
4 volumes, 4° (392 x 292mm). Half-titles. 90 coloured lithographic or collotype plates after Thorburn, Lodge, Grönvald, Fuertes, C.R. Knight, H. Jones and C. Megargee, 88 photogravure plates from photographs by Beebe and others and 20 distribution maps. (Occasional very light spotting and browning, mostly confined to the margins of the few leaves of vol. I, about 10 leaves in vol. I faintly dog-eared.) Recent red three-quarter morocco over red watered-silk, gilt spines, top edges gilt (extremities faintly rubbed).
'PERHAPS THE GREATEST ORNITHOLOGICAL WORK OF THE [20TH-] CENTURY' (Mengel). Limited to 600 copies. FINE EXAMPLE. Anker 31; Mengel 203; Nissen IVB 84; Wood 228; Zimmer p.49. (4)
4 volumes, 4° (392 x 292mm). Half-titles. 90 coloured lithographic or collotype plates after Thorburn, Lodge, Grönvald, Fuertes, C.R. Knight, H. Jones and C. Megargee, 88 photogravure plates from photographs by Beebe and others and 20 distribution maps. (Occasional very light spotting and browning, mostly confined to the margins of the few leaves of vol. I, about 10 leaves in vol. I faintly dog-eared.) Recent red three-quarter morocco over red watered-silk, gilt spines, top edges gilt (extremities faintly rubbed).
'PERHAPS THE GREATEST ORNITHOLOGICAL WORK OF THE [20TH-] CENTURY' (Mengel). Limited to 600 copies. FINE EXAMPLE. Anker 31; Mengel 203; Nissen IVB 84; Wood 228; Zimmer p.49. (4)
BEEBE, Charles William (1877-1962). A Monograph of the Pheasants. London: Witherby, 1918-1922.
4 volumes, 4° (392 x 292mm). Half-titles. 90 coloured lithographic or collotype plates after Thorburn, Lodge, Grönvald, Fuertes, C.R. Knight, H. Jones and C. Megargee, 88 photogravure plates from photographs by Beebe and others and 20 distribution maps. (Occasional very light spotting and browning, mostly confined to the margins of the few leaves of vol. I, about 10 leaves in vol. I faintly dog-eared.) Recent red three-quarter morocco over red watered-silk, gilt spines, top edges gilt (extremities faintly rubbed).
'PERHAPS THE GREATEST ORNITHOLOGICAL WORK OF THE [20TH-] CENTURY' (Mengel). Limited to 600 copies. FINE EXAMPLE. Anker 31; Mengel 203; Nissen IVB 84; Wood 228; Zimmer p.49. (4)
4 volumes, 4° (392 x 292mm). Half-titles. 90 coloured lithographic or collotype plates after Thorburn, Lodge, Grönvald, Fuertes, C.R. Knight, H. Jones and C. Megargee, 88 photogravure plates from photographs by Beebe and others and 20 distribution maps. (Occasional very light spotting and browning, mostly confined to the margins of the few leaves of vol. I, about 10 leaves in vol. I faintly dog-eared.) Recent red three-quarter morocco over red watered-silk, gilt spines, top edges gilt (extremities faintly rubbed).
'PERHAPS THE GREATEST ORNITHOLOGICAL WORK OF THE [20TH-] CENTURY' (Mengel). Limited to 600 copies. FINE EXAMPLE. Anker 31; Mengel 203; Nissen IVB 84; Wood 228; Zimmer p.49. (4)