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GORILLAS & ORANG-UTANS. - Thomas Staughton SAVAGE (1804-1880) & Jeffries WYMAN (1814-1874). A Description of the Characters and Habits of the Troglodytes Gorilla. By... Savage... and of the osteology of the same, by... Wyman. Boston: Freeman & Bolles, 1847. 4° in twos (288 x 235mm). Final blank. 4 lithographic plates, printed by G. & W. Endicott of New York, after W.H. Tappan. (Neat repairs to title, outer margin of plate IV torn and repaired, just affecting plate area.) Old black half morocco, black morocco title label on upper cover lettered in gilt (slight scuffing to extremities). Provenance: Thomas S. Savage (signature on title page).
FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, LARGE-PAPER, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, of the first description of the western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla). The work was first published in the Boston Journal of Natural History. BM(NH) IV,p.1814.
Dieterich Leonhard OSKAMP. Naauwkeurige beschryving van der grooten en kleinen Orang-Outang, gelyk ook van den Gibbon, de twee Aapensoorten, die het meest naar den Mensch gelyken. Amsterdam: J.C. Sepp en Zoon, 1803. 4° (245 x 196mm). 2 hand-coloured engraved plates by J.C. Schultsz after A. de Lelie. Contemporary cream-coloured paper-covered boards (slightly soiled and rubbed). RARE: not in BM(NH) or Wood.
Carl Eduard Wilhelm Robert HARTMANN (1832-1893). Der Gorilla. Zoologisch-zootomische Untersuchungen. Leipzig: von Veit & Comp., 1880. 4° (281 x 220mm). 21 lithographic plates, 1 printed in colours after G. Mützel, 20 tinted by W.A. Meyn after Meyn [17] and Hartmann [3]. (Occasional light spotting.) Original wrappers (light discolouration to backstrip), original slipcase. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. BM(NH) II,p.793; Nissen ZBI 1850; together with nine other works, part works or offprints, on gorillas and other primates. (11)
FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, LARGE-PAPER, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, of the first description of the western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla). The work was first published in the Boston Journal of Natural History. BM(NH) IV,p.1814.
Dieterich Leonhard OSKAMP. Naauwkeurige beschryving van der grooten en kleinen Orang-Outang, gelyk ook van den Gibbon, de twee Aapensoorten, die het meest naar den Mensch gelyken. Amsterdam: J.C. Sepp en Zoon, 1803. 4° (245 x 196mm). 2 hand-coloured engraved plates by J.C. Schultsz after A. de Lelie. Contemporary cream-coloured paper-covered boards (slightly soiled and rubbed). RARE: not in BM(NH) or Wood.
Carl Eduard Wilhelm Robert HARTMANN (1832-1893). Der Gorilla. Zoologisch-zootomische Untersuchungen. Leipzig: von Veit & Comp., 1880. 4° (281 x 220mm). 21 lithographic plates, 1 printed in colours after G. Mützel, 20 tinted by W.A. Meyn after Meyn [17] and Hartmann [3]. (Occasional light spotting.) Original wrappers (light discolouration to backstrip), original slipcase. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. BM(NH) II,p.793; Nissen ZBI 1850; together with nine other works, part works or offprints, on gorillas and other primates. (11)
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