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LIONEL WALTER ROTHSCHILD (1868-1937)
Extinct Birds. London: Hutchinson, 1907. 4° (374 x 280mm). 45 chromolithographic plates after Keulemans, Lodge, H. Grönvold, J. Smit and F.W. Frohawk, and 4 uncoloured plates. (Margins lightly yellowed.) Contemporary green half morocco, spine gilt in compartments with raised bands, top edge gilt (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Walter Rothschild, presentation inscription dated 1907 to: T.F. Althaus; C.J. Coldewey, bookplate; Wheldon & Wesley Ltd, booksellers description laid-in.
ONE OF ONLY 10 AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPIES, from an edition of 300. 'THE HIGHEST AUTHORITY ON THE SUBJECT' (Wood), and a ground-breaking work in this field and the nascent conservation movement. The strikingly effective plates are based on museum specimens, whilst hypothetical species are based on written records of varying quality, the authors of which considered 'the culinary property of the various birds... to have been their principal interest'. Anker 430; Nissen IVB, 795; Wood p.543; Zimmer p.533 ('the plates are excellent').
Extinct Birds. London: Hutchinson, 1907. 4° (374 x 280mm). 45 chromolithographic plates after Keulemans, Lodge, H. Grönvold, J. Smit and F.W. Frohawk, and 4 uncoloured plates. (Margins lightly yellowed.) Contemporary green half morocco, spine gilt in compartments with raised bands, top edge gilt (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Walter Rothschild, presentation inscription dated 1907 to: T.F. Althaus; C.J. Coldewey, bookplate; Wheldon & Wesley Ltd, booksellers description laid-in.
ONE OF ONLY 10 AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPIES, from an edition of 300. 'THE HIGHEST AUTHORITY ON THE SUBJECT' (Wood), and a ground-breaking work in this field and the nascent conservation movement. The strikingly effective plates are based on museum specimens, whilst hypothetical species are based on written records of varying quality, the authors of which considered 'the culinary property of the various birds... to have been their principal interest'. Anker 430; Nissen IVB, 795; Wood p.543; Zimmer p.533 ('the plates are excellent').