Pairing S. Dillon Ripley’s quarter century of study with over 70 color and black and white illustrations by J. Fenwick Lansdowne, this book marks a memorable ornithological publishing event. Both the book’s subject matter and its manner of production―lavishly illustrated, printed on special paper with relentless attention to every detail―represent worthy objects of celebration and preservation.
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S. Dillon Ripley served as Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1964 to 1984, the institution’s most significant period of expansion, for which service he received a Presidential Medal of Freedom. He also helped found the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and Smithsonian magazine. In his scholarly work, Ripley was an ornithologist, and held degrees in zoology from Yale and Harvard. He was a fellow of the American Ornithologists’ Union, a board member of the World Wildlife Fund, and the third president of the International Council for Bird Preservation. Ripley published six books, including four about birds and other wildlife.
James Fenwick Lansdowne was born in Hong Kong and grew up in Victoria, British Columbia. A self-taught artist, he had his first show at the Royal Ontario Museum when he was nineteen years old. In honor of his artistic achievements, he received the title of Officer of the Order of Canada, the Order of British Columbia, and membership in Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
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Librería: Andrew Isles Natural History Books, Prahran, VIC, Australia
Lansdowne, Fenwick Ilustrador. Small folio,406 pp.,41 colour plates by J. Fenwick Lansdowne, fine copy in dustwrapper. One of the better modern bird monograph. Nº de ref. del artículo: 3397
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Librería: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: As New. Lansdowne, Fenwick Ilustrador. Folio. Clean, unmarked pages. Good binding and cover. Red leather spine. Hardcover and slip case. Minor wear/soiling to slip case. Includes review notes. xx, 406 p. : illustrations. This is an oversized or heavy book, that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Nº de ref. del artículo: 1912200016
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Librería: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Lansdowne, Fenwick Ilustrador. First, Limited edition. Folio, 406 pages, half red morocco, cloth, raised bands of spine scuffed, in matching publisher's slipcase in near-fine condition. Copy no. 378 of only 400 in the Collector's Edition, each with an original lithograph by Lansdowne, signed, commissioned only for this issue. Printed by Martino Mardersteig on Magnani of Pescia for this edition. Colophon signed by Ripley and Lansdowne. Nº de ref. del artículo: 0008484
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Librería: Arnold M. Herr, Los Angeles, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. No Jacket. Lansdowne, Fenwick Ilustrador. Limited Edition. No. 338 of 400 copies; signed on limitation page by author and illustrator. Tall, thick folio volume in slipcase. Bound in red leather and oatmeal-colored cloth with slipcase covered in same oatmeal-colored cloth with red leather trim. Full page color plates; B&W illustrations; maps. Condition: fine in fine slipcase. 406 pages. Signed by Author(s). Nº de ref. del artículo: 6160JESA
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Librería: Klondyke, Almere, Holanda
Condición: Good. Lansdowne, Fenwick Ilustrador. Original half faux leather, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, with 41 colour plates by J. Fenwick Lansdowne, maps, slipcase, folio.; Small old water stains top slipcase, dent spine slipcase. Nº de ref. del artículo: 370173-MC11
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Librería: FIRENZELIBRI SRL, Reggello, FI, Italia
Condición: COME NUOVO. Lansdowne, Fenwick Ilustrador. NOTA:ex libris cartaceo applicato in appendice / Boston, David R.Godine Publisher cm.28x42, pp.(I), (XX), 1-406, Stupendously colorful full-page color plates and that are augmented with learned text and brilliantly conceived research, plus an additional chapter on the fossil species. Bellissima rilegatura artigianale in mezza pelle e titoli e fregi in oro al dorso. Cofanetto e piatti in tela grezza grigia realizzata da legatoria Recalcati di Milano, come si evince anche da ex libris cartaceo applicato in appendice. Edizione Deluxe. Deluxe edition. With forty one paintings by Fenwick Lansdowne, and a chapter on fossil species by Storrs L.Olson. Nº de ref. del artículo: 299269
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Librería: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, Reino Unido
Condición: Fine. Lansdowne, Fenwick Ilustrador. In grey slipcase. Large format. Red leather spine with raised bands, with gilt title and gilt decoration, grey cloth covers, red leather corners, very well illustrated. Nº de ref. del artículo: 056537-6a
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Librería: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, Australia
Hard Cover. Condición: Near Fine. Lansdowne, J. Fenwick. Ilustrador. First Numbered Limited Signed Edition. HEAVY. xx, 406pp, index, bibliography, bvw line drawings and photographs, 17 distribution maps, 41 color plates (inc frontis). Or ivory cloth flecked with brown with red leather spine and corners (ie 1/2 leather) with titles in gilt to spine presented in sturdy cloth covered slipcase with red leather highlights at head and foot of open edge, patterned endpapers. Edition limited to 400 copies of which this #298, signed by both authors and numbered on limitation page ( colophon). Some toning/foxing to slipcase, and also the cloth of the rear cover, otherwise a very clean fresh copy. A narrow strip of color on the front free endpaper has been abraded in the removel of the previous owners name. This copy lacks the monochrome lithograph as is so often the case. An impressive, in both size (35.5 x 26 x 5cm) and content, monograph of the Rallidae, or rails, of the world. The full page color plates are spectacular and the scholarly text is well researched. An additional chapter on the fossil species rounds out this important volume. Size: Folio. Signed by Authors. Nº de ref. del artículo: 018589
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Librería: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. J. Fenwick Lansdowne Ilustrador. Oatmeal-colored cloth over boards; Red leather at spine and corners; Gilt titling and raised bands at spine; 406 pp.; 17 maps; 40 color plates. Number 46 of 400 signed and numbered copies in this edition ; Signed by Ripley and Lansdowne; Also inscribed by Ripley at half-title page; Lacks slipcase and lithograph that came with this edition. VG- (Minor wear to leather; Slipcase and lithograph missing). Nº de ref. del artículo: 124092
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