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RICHARD LYDEKKER (1849-1915)
The great and small game of India, Burma & Tibet. London: R.& R.Clark for Rowland Ward Ltd., 1900. 9 hand-coloured lithographic plates, illustrations. (Plates occasionally lightly spotted, lower margin of plate IV shaved with slight loss to imprint.) [With:] The great and small game of Europe Western & Northern Asia and America. London: R. & R.Clark for Rowland Ward Ltd., 1901. (Upper margin of plate I shaved with slight loss to title.)
The 2 works in 2 volumes, 4 (287 x 222mm). Uniform green morocco gilt, covers with centrally-placed single animal blocks, gilt turn-ins, g.e., by Zaehnsdorf.
FINE COPIES OF THE FIRST EDITIONS, limited to 250 copies, the first an unnumbered out-of-series copy, the second number 173 signed by the publishers. The works were issued as a companion to Lydekker's The great and small game of Africa (1899). Nissen ZBI 2607 & 2606.
The great and small game of India, Burma & Tibet. London: R.& R.Clark for Rowland Ward Ltd., 1900. 9 hand-coloured lithographic plates, illustrations. (Plates occasionally lightly spotted, lower margin of plate IV shaved with slight loss to imprint.) [With:] The great and small game of Europe Western & Northern Asia and America. London: R. & R.Clark for Rowland Ward Ltd., 1901. (Upper margin of plate I shaved with slight loss to title.)
The 2 works in 2 volumes, 4 (287 x 222mm). Uniform green morocco gilt, covers with centrally-placed single animal blocks, gilt turn-ins, g.e., by Zaehnsdorf.
FINE COPIES OF THE FIRST EDITIONS, limited to 250 copies, the first an unnumbered out-of-series copy, the second number 173 signed by the publishers. The works were issued as a companion to Lydekker's The great and small game of Africa (1899). Nissen ZBI 2607 & 2606.