Isbn: 9780919880078 - title: rails of the world a monograph of the family ralli (13 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good+. 1st Edition. Minor shelf wear to book and dust jacket and slip cover. Otherwise a tight, unmarked volume. Color illustrations. Index. xx, 406 pp.

Folio (14 x 10 inches). Illustrations by J. Fenwick Lansdowne. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket; publisher's plain card slipcase. First edition. With a chapter on fossil species by Storrs L. Olson. An exquisitely designed and printed book, produced in Verona under the direction of Martino Mardersteig at the Stamperia Valdonega. A near-fine copy, jacket price clipped and with a few small soft creases and soilmarks to spine panel.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. Large hardback in fine condition with fine dust jacket.

Fine. Hardcover book, first edition, Fawn cloth with red cloth spine, gilt titles and rail motif to spine, and pictorial dustjacket. 406pp, large folio. Decorative endpapers. Beautifully printed on paper made specially by Magnani of Pescia. With 41 beautiful full page colour plates painted by J. Fenwick Lansdowne, as well as 17 distribution maps. Monumental work on the rail family of birds worldwide. Near Fine in near Fine jacket. A few small creases and very light marks to jacket. Price clipped. …

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Fine But For Prev. Owner Name At Top Corner Of Front Paste Down,( Unobtrusive And Under The Front Flap ), And Insignificant Soil To Fore Edges. Internally Bright, Clean, And Tight. Jacket Is Fine But For A Small Scrape In The Spine, And Very Minor Traces Of Use. With 41 Paintings. Signed By The Artist On The Title Page.Very Large Volume Will Require Extra Postage. Lansdowne, J. Fenwick ( Signed ) (ilustrador). Signed by Artist.…

Condición: Very Good. xx, 406, 41 col plates, 26 text figs. . HB + Slipcase. 4to, orig. cloth. Vg in d/w, in card slipcase. Illustrations by J.F. Lansdowne. [9780919880078].

FIRST EDITION, SMALL FOLIO, VERY GOOD COPY IN VERY GOOD DUSTWRAP. FITTED IN GOOD CARDBOARD SLIP CASE. A MONOGRAPH OF THE FAMILY RALLIDAE. WITH FORTY-ONE PAINTINGS BY J. FENWICK LANDSDOWN, AND CHAPTER ON FOSSIL SPECIES BY STORRS L. OLSON. THIS IS A VERY HEAVY BOOK SO EXTRA POSTAGE WILL BE ASKED FOR.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First Edition. Forty-one full page paintings reproduced in seven-color offset were done by J. Fenwick Lansdowne also includes a chapter on fossil species by Storrs L. Olson, 406 pages. Maroon cloth spine with black title block, gilt rule, titles in gilt, natural linen boards, tan endpapers with brown rail tracks. A comprehensive treatment of the 129 known species of rails, with taxonomic keys, descriptions, life histories, courting behavior, distrubution and status of hundreds of sub-species. The book also includes an unusual section of photographs of these elusive birds, maps throughout show distrubtion. Book comes housed in the plain cardboard slipcase as issued. Dust jacket has tiny bit of wear at base of spine panel otherwise fine. J. Fenwick Lansdowne (ilustrador).…

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xx, 406 pages: illustrations, maps; 37 cm. Notes:Includes index. Bibliography: pages 375-389. Subjects: Rails (Birds). Rallidae. XMM.Genre: Illustrated. 7 Kg. …

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xx, 406 pages: illustrations, maps; 37 cm. Notes:Includes index. Bibliography: pages 375-389. Subjects: Rails (Birds). Rallidae. XMM.Genre: Illustrated. 7 Kg. …

Condición: Very good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very good. Larger 4to pp. 40641 colour plates after J. Fenwick Lansdowne, b/w illustrations, sketches, graphs, habitat maps. J. Fenwick Lansdowne (ilustrador). book.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: fine. xx, 406 p. 37 cm. 41 colour paintings by J. Fenwick Lansdowne. 17 distribution maps. Burgundy spine with beige cloth boards. No slipcase. Ripley was an American ornithologist and wildlife conservationist who acted as Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1964 to 1984. Also from the Smithsonian is Storrs Olson, one of the world's foremost avian paleontologists. The Canadian connection here is illustrator James Fenwick Lansdowne (1937 2008), a self-taught wildlife artist who grew up in Victoria, B.C. His pictured birds are similar in style to the work of Audubon, often featuring a specific species against a largely white background, but Lansdowne's birds are more life-like and more natural postures than Audubon's.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. xx, 406 p. 37 cm. 41 colour paintings by J. Fenwick Lansdowne. 17 distribution maps. Half burgundy leather with beige cloth boards. In matching slipcase. Includes a signed lithograph by Lansdowne and sample pages in separate book with light soiling. Ripley was an American ornithologist and wildlife conservationist who acted as Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1964 to 1984. Also from the Smithsonian is Storrs Olson, one of the world's foremost avian paleontologists. The Canadian connection here is illustrator James Fenwick Lansdowne (1937 2008), a self-taught wildlife artist who grew up in Victoria, B.C. His pictured birds are similar in style to the work of Audubon, often featuring a specific species against a largely white background, but Lansdowne's birds are more life-like and have more natural postures than Audubon's. Limited edition of 400 copies signed by author and illustrator of which this is copy no. 37.…