Fleming C a Text (5 results)

Hardcover. First Edition. Michael Joseph (London) with Nat'l Museum of New Zealand, 1983, first edition thus, hardback about 11x14 inches. Near Fine(ink line to lower edge of the page block) /Very Good + dust jacket in brodart (closed tear along the lower inch + of the front DJ flap) , 409 pages, unmarked. ; G3547 Ashlf.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. xiv 407p D/J (very light foxing top FE) Near Fine 89 plates that were in the care of the National Museum are finally brought into the light in this wonderful production.

Sm folio, brown heavy faux leather boards, gilt lettering to blue buckram spine, frontispiece, xiv + 409pp, illus, Near FINE (sl bruising to board extrems, sl snag to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges & spine with some minor soiling) in tidy VG presentation box.

DATED & SIGNED BY C A FLEMING, UNCOMMON THUS, sm folio, brown faux leather boards, gilt lettering to blue buckram spine, frontispiece, xiv + 409pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, light foxing & soiling to page edges, light foxing to eps & some prelim pages, light soiling to plate 38 with sl cracking at gutter) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light wrinkling/chafing & soiling, light fading/discolouration- esp. to rear).

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. VERY HEAVY. Foreword by Sir Peter Scott. Preface (covering the history of the commissioning and subsequent provenance of the paintings) by Dr J C Yaldwyn. 408 pages, 89 plates in full colour illustrating 155 birds. Prev owner's name has been erased from the upper corner of the tinted front flyleaf leaving a pale patch. Binding: sewn and cased, quarter linen (spine) and imitation leather (boards), blocked in gold on spine, in dust-jacket which is lightly foxed on the blind side. Publisher's prospectus loosely inserted. With original individual mailing carton. The book includes a biography of Lodge, historical introduction and text to accompany each plate by Sir Charles Fleming. The colour plates and accompanying texts give the history of the discovery, bio-geography and evolutionary development of the species illustrated and discusses the impact of man and the problems of conservation today. Size: Folio.