H Giglioli E (7 results)

in-16° pp. 37 con 10 tav. f.t. Leg. in cartone con tit. al dorso.

In 16°, pergamenino edit., pp. 43 + 48 tavv. in nero fuori testo + 4 n.n., testo in italiano, inglese e francese, coll:piccola collezione d'arte n°16.

Folio, 31.5cm. Pp. [ii],99-143. Plain new wrs., uncut. - South-East Asia, esp. Japanese and Chinese coastal areas. Listing 87 species, partly with descriptions.

Condition: Good. 57, . . HB. Cloth. Ex-lib. Good. Text Italian. Enrico Hillyer Giglioli (1845-1909) was an Italian zoologist and anthropologist. Under his direction important dredgings were undertaken of the Mediterranean seabed from the Italian steamer, 'Washington' in 1881, under the command of Commander G.B. Magnaghi of the Italian navy. This survey revealed new information about abysmal fauna.…

Cm. 20, pp. 436 (2). Con figure incise in xilografia nel testo. Leg. coeva in mezza pelle con titoli in oro al dorso (un po' lisa). Con capitoli sulle perle, il corallo, la porpora, l'ostricoltura, le conchiglie marine, ecc. Edizione originale ed unica, non comune. Cfr. Ceresoli p. 284.

1a edizione. 15 cm, ril. in tela editoriale, p. xvi, 199, (3), 22 incisioni nel testo. Manca la prina carta bianca e un angolo al margine del frontespizio.

del dottore E.H. Giglioli.Second Edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Original black & red cloth. Milan, A fine copy. As a result of contact with indigenous races, it was "keenly appreciated that accurate pictorial records were needed before further contact disrupted and debased native culture and individuality . [Commissioned by the Royal Society of Tasmania,] Charles Woolley's portraits of the last of the Tasmanian Aborigines taken in 1866 are early and rare examples of such awareness in nineteenth-century Australia" (Holden). This work forms part of the series Biblioteca di viaggi. The first part recounts the first voyages to Tasmania of Tasman, Cook and Bligh; European settlers; and includes a discussion of the captivity and extinction of the indigenous population. The second part is a detailed ethnographic study of the Aborigines. A zoologist by profession, Gilgioli had a keen interest in anthropology. He spent three years travelling on a naturalists' expedition in the 1860s and from 1883 assembled a large collection of ethnographic material. Ferguson, 9906; Long, C; Tasmanian Photographers (1995); Holden, R; Photography in Colonial Australia (1988), p47.…