The Natural History of British Surface-Feeding Ducks by Millais, J.G - 1902

VERY NICE Oversize Hardback with DJ, 4th Printing, U of California Press, 1971. NOT Ex-Library. Dust Jacket Clean, very light edge wear, 2 very small tears, not price-clipped, now protected in clear Brodart cover. See photo of this copy above. Text Clean, no owner's marks, no underlining, no highlighting. No remainder mark. Binding Tight and Square. Blue Cloth Boards with Silver Gilt Lettering in Near Fine condition. Fast shipping from Smoke-Free home. Email Confirmation with Tracking Number.

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1851. Leather Bound. Good. Half leather over cloth boards in good condition. Marbled endpapers. TEG. With 40 hand-colored engravings. Raised bands on the spine. A few words underlined pp. 115-116. Some foxing. Eight pages have a dark mark in the center of the page, but the text is still legible. A damp stain on the lower corner of many pages. With additions and Supplementary notes by William Jardine. Edited with further illustrations, a biographical sketch of the author and a complete index by Edward Jesse.

Johnson Reprint and Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1977. Leather Bound. Very Good. New York and Amsterdam: Johnson Reprint and Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1977. Facsimile reprint of the 1873 edition. Limited to 500 numbered copies, this is No. 212. The 36 color plates are by J. WOLF and J. SMIT. Hand-bound in quarter navy morocco and burgundy cloth by Zaehnsdorf of London. Double elephant folio (18½x24). A fine facsimile reprint of a rare monograph.

Washington: U.S. House of Representatives, 1855. Hardcover. Good. Volume I - Chile: Its Geography, Climate, Earthquakes, etc. Folding panoramic view of Santiago nearly 6 ft. in length. Folding map of Chile in three sheets. Ten full page plates: map, plans, views, one color portrait of Araucanian chief. Volume II - The Andes and Pampas: Minerals, Indian Remains, Mammals (Spencer F. Baird), Birds (John Cassin), etc. Illustrated with color plates (3 of Indian artifacts, 15 of birds), b&w plates, woodcuts, maps. Bound in decorated original brown cloth. Outer rear hinge of Volume I starting. Damps stain to top edge of many pages of Volume I. Cover scrape to Volume II with backstrip partially reglued, foreedge dampstain to the first few pages. Two additional volumes, principally covering astronomical observations, were published (not included here). Spencer Baird and John Cassin were contemporaries and friends, Baird at the Smithsonian and Cassis at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Both were eminent… Read More

Loindon: R.H. Porter, 1912. Hardcover. Fine. Two volumes. Volume I: Text volume: colored map, 504 pp. The only volume published of a planned multi-volume work abandoned as a result of the death of the senior author at Neuve-Chapelle in 1915. Volume II: Plate volume published in 1917 contains 38 hand-colored lithographs by H. Gronvold with descriptive notes by H. Kirke Swan. The plates were intended to accompany the projected 16-volume work. Beautifully bound in matching burgundy Morocco over red cloth. Original wrappers for first set of 19 plates bound in rear of plate volume.

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1851. Leather Bound. Good. Half leather over cloth boards in good condition. Marbled endpapers. TEG. With 40 hand-colored engravings. Raised bands on the spine. A few words underlined pp. 115-116. Some foxing. Eight pages have a dark mark in the center of the page, but the text is still legible. A damp stain on the lower corner of many pages. With additions and Supplementary notes by William Jardine. Edited with further illustrations, a biographical sketch of the author and a complete index by Edward Jesse.

Johnson Reprint and Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1977. Leather Bound. Very Good. New York and Amsterdam: Johnson Reprint and Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1977. Facsimile reprint of the 1873 edition. Limited to 500 numbered copies, this is No. 212. The 36 color plates are by J. WOLF and J. SMIT. Hand-bound in quarter navy morocco and burgundy cloth by Zaehnsdorf of London. Double elephant folio (18½x24). A fine facsimile reprint of a rare monograph.

Washington: U.S. House of Representatives, 1855. Hardcover. Good. Volume I - Chile: Its Geography, Climate, Earthquakes, etc. Folding panoramic view of Santiago nearly 6 ft. in length. Folding map of Chile in three sheets. Ten full page plates: map, plans, views, one color portrait of Araucanian chief. Volume II - The Andes and Pampas: Minerals, Indian Remains, Mammals (Spencer F. Baird), Birds (John Cassin), etc. Illustrated with color plates (3 of Indian artifacts, 15 of birds), b&w plates, woodcuts, maps. Bound in decorated original brown cloth. Outer rear hinge of Volume I starting. Damps stain to top edge of many pages of Volume I. Cover scrape to Volume II with backstrip partially reglued, foreedge dampstain to the first few pages. Two additional volumes, principally covering astronomical observations, were published (not included here). Spencer Baird and John Cassin were contemporaries and friends, Baird at the Smithsonian and Cassis at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Both were eminent… Read More

Loindon: R.H. Porter, 1912. Hardcover. Fine. Two volumes. Volume I: Text volume: colored map, 504 pp. The only volume published of a planned multi-volume work abandoned as a result of the death of the senior author at Neuve-Chapelle in 1915. Volume II: Plate volume published in 1917 contains 38 hand-colored lithographs by H. Gronvold with descriptive notes by H. Kirke Swan. The plates were intended to accompany the projected 16-volume work. Beautifully bound in matching burgundy Morocco over red cloth. Original wrappers for first set of 19 plates bound in rear of plate volume.

New York: Johnson Reprint, 1978. Hardcover. Fine. Facsimile reprint of a work first published in London in 1832. Forty-two color plates without descriptive text. Folio (14x21) bound in red half leather over maroon boards. Number 145 of an edition limited to 530 copies. Includes an illustrated essay by Brian Reade, 15 pp. Edward Lear (1812-1888) was a brilliant artist, but only his early creative years were devoted to painting birds. His monograph of the parrots reflects his artistic talent and remains one of the most prized illustrated works of the 19th century.