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THOMAS CLAVERHILL JERDON (1811-1872)
The Mammals of India, Parts 1-3 -- A collection of approximately 360 watercolours, 105 pencil drawings, 190 proof engravings and lithographs (some hand-coloured) and 11 photographs including studies of bats, rodents, whales, bears, cats, monkeys, apes, elephants, rhinoceroses and cattle, the majority annotated by the artist, interleaved with printed text leaves, some with pencilled corrections, each sheet 228 x 152mm or similar, together with loosely inserted miscellaneous correspondence relating to the specimens, in three modern blue cloth boxes, blue morocco gilt lettering-pieces on spines.
THE UNPUBLISHED ORIGINAL ARTWORK FOR JERDON'S THE MAMMALS OF INDIA, with corrected page proofs. Jerdon, a keen ornithologist and naturalist, went to India as an Army medical officer with the East India Company in 1836. He corresponded with the naturalist William Jardine (1800-1874) on the ornithology of India and his scientific publications on the zoology of the subcontinent began in 1839. Lord Canning later granted him special leave to complete his major works on the vertebrata of India, The Birds of India (1862-64) and The Mammals of India (Roorkee, 1867). 'His work, although valued for its keen observations, was marred by over-reliance on memory and unmethodical recording of detail; a similar lack of attention in domestic matters led to constant debt' (DNB); this indebtedness may be the reason why he was not able to fund the engraving of his artwork, which would have added greatly to the expense of the work, and consequently the artwork for his Mammals remained unpublished. Having contracted an illness in Assam, he returned to England in 1870 where he continued to work on his Reptiles of India (for which see the following lot) until his death in 1872. (3)
The Mammals of India, Parts 1-3 -- A collection of approximately 360 watercolours, 105 pencil drawings, 190 proof engravings and lithographs (some hand-coloured) and 11 photographs including studies of bats, rodents, whales, bears, cats, monkeys, apes, elephants, rhinoceroses and cattle, the majority annotated by the artist, interleaved with printed text leaves, some with pencilled corrections, each sheet 228 x 152mm or similar, together with loosely inserted miscellaneous correspondence relating to the specimens, in three modern blue cloth boxes, blue morocco gilt lettering-pieces on spines.
THE UNPUBLISHED ORIGINAL ARTWORK FOR JERDON'S THE MAMMALS OF INDIA, with corrected page proofs. Jerdon, a keen ornithologist and naturalist, went to India as an Army medical officer with the East India Company in 1836. He corresponded with the naturalist William Jardine (1800-1874) on the ornithology of India and his scientific publications on the zoology of the subcontinent began in 1839. Lord Canning later granted him special leave to complete his major works on the vertebrata of India, The Birds of India (1862-64) and The Mammals of India (Roorkee, 1867). 'His work, although valued for its keen observations, was marred by over-reliance on memory and unmethodical recording of detail; a similar lack of attention in domestic matters led to constant debt' (DNB); this indebtedness may be the reason why he was not able to fund the engraving of his artwork, which would have added greatly to the expense of the work, and consequently the artwork for his Mammals remained unpublished. Having contracted an illness in Assam, he returned to England in 1870 where he continued to work on his Reptiles of India (for which see the following lot) until his death in 1872. (3)
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