Sharpe Ec (5 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A good condition paperback without dust jacket. Cover has stains and wear t o edges and corners. Ex Library Book with usual stamps and stickers. Pages are clear, bright and tidy.…

Soft. Condition: Very Good. Apart from lightly rubbed covers, lightl creasing to spine and edges and a tiny patch of foxing to front, book in very good condition, internally excellent. Size: 4to.

Paperback. Condition: VG. 1st Edition. Very clean tight text in sound covers which are a little marked. Book is in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. [ANIMALS]. Eds. Philip Lutley Sclater (1829-1913), Arthur Humble Evans (1855-1943). Illustrators: George Edward Lodge (1860-1954), Herbert Goodchild (1873-1919), Henrik Gronvold (1858-1940), John Gerard Keulemans (1842-1912), J. Smit (1836-1929), et al. Printed by Bale and Danielsson, A. C. Fowler, and the Mintern Brothers. Contributors: R. Bowdler Sharpe, S. A. Buturlin, Arthur Douglas, H. E. Dresser, Ernst Hartert, W. L. S. Loat, Einar Lonnberg, P. J. C. McGregor, Michael J. Nicoll, W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, W. P. Pycraft, T. Salvadori, Howard Saunders, E. C. Stuart Baker, H. J. Walton, et al. "The Ibis, a Quarterly Journal of Ornithology, Eighth Series, Volumes 5-6, Numbers 17-24 [8 Fine First Edition Volumes in Original Paper Wrappers with 22 Chromolithographs]." London: R. H. Porter, 7 Princes Street, Cavendish Square: British Ornithologists' Union. Printed by Taylor and Francis in Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, January 1905-October 1906. First edition. 8 volumes. English language. Softcover journal issues in original printed paper wrappers with Ibis engraving on front, with tissue guards and promotional slips bound-in, top edges of many leaves unopened. Nonfiction ornithological academic journal, each issue with multiple articles from various authors accompanied by in-text illustrations, photos, and footnotes, as well as thirty-four plates, including twenty-two chromolithograph plates, multiple black-and-white maps, tables, letters, reviews, publisher's ads, and indices. 8vos. 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches. Volume V, Nos. 17-20: 678 pp., xxxviii. 13 plates. Volume VI, Nos. 21-24: 770 pp., xxxviii. 21 plates. 101 total oz. Light chipping to wrapper edges and a few of the spines. Text clean and bright, largely unread. Occasionall toning. Text clean. Rare in this condition in the original wrappers. Near Fine. No ISBN. No ASIN. ISSNs: 0019-1019, 1474-919X. OCLC: 1377260. Anker 219. Nissen IVB 476. Wood, p.396. "Plates include the Wrenthrush, Sharpe?s longclaw, Malayan partridge, Kemp?s longbill, Gough finch, Kordofan sparrow, Lesser bird-of-paradise's final stage of the display, Yellow-breasted forest robin, Somali lark, Eggs of paleaarctic shrikes, Bushwrens, Manakin, sketch-Map from Darjiling to Lhasa, Snow petrel, Snowy sheathbill, Chinstrap penguin, sketch-map of the South Orkney Islands, 8 plates of photographs of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition to the South Orkney Islands, Pink-rumped Rosefinch, Yellowhammer, Western capercaillie, Javan wood-owl, Cinnamon ibon, Jungle flycatcher, Scarlet minivet, Ross?s gull, and Aldabra striated heron. Sclater, a co-founder and editor of Ibis, was a well-known and highly productive ornithologist with over 1400 publications. He is also remembered for his 1858 paper setting out the faunal regions classification of zoogeography later adopted by Alfred Russel Wallace. Ibis, the international journal of avian science, publishes original papers, reviews, short communications, viewpoints, and commentaries at the forefront of ornithological research, with special emphasis on the conservation, ecology, ethology and systematics of birds. Four issues are published each year, in January, April, July and October. Ibis is a truly international journal, publishing papers from across the globe and supported by an editorial board from across 12 countries. Published continuously since 1859, Ibis was the world's first dedicated ornithology journal, establishing itself as the journal of record for many regions in the 19th Century, and remains one of the highest impact factor journals in ornithology.".…

Soft. Condition: Very Good. Pages clean and bright, small inscription on front endpaper, light spotting on soft covers, soft covers otherwise neat, binding firm. Size: 4to.