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Published by Forgotten Books, 2018
ISBN 10: 1527914925ISBN 13: 9781527914926
Seller: Forgotten Books, London, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. Excerpt from The Dodo and Its Kindred. About the Publisher, Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. This text has been digitally restored from a historical edition. Some errors may persist, however we consider it worth publishing due to the work's historical value. The digital edition of all books may be viewed on our website before purchase. print-on-demand item.
LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1848 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 222 Language: English.
LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 235.
Published by Cambridge University Press CUP, 2015
ISBN 10: 1108078311ISBN 13: 9781108078313
Seller: Books Puddle, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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Condition: New. pp. 178, Map, Index.
Published by Cambridge University Press, 2015
ISBN 10: 1108078311ISBN 13: 9781108078313
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reissue edition. 141 pages. 11.25x8.25x0.50 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.
Published by Cambridge University Press, 2015
ISBN 10: 1108078311ISBN 13: 9781108078313
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Published by Cambridge University Press, 2015
ISBN 10: 1108078311ISBN 13: 9781108078313
Seller: booksXpress, Bayonne, NJ, U.S.A.
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Soft Cover. Condition: new. This item is printed on demand.
Published by Cambridge University Press, 2015
ISBN 10: 1108078311ISBN 13: 9781108078313
Seller: Majestic Books, Hounslow, United Kingdom
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Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 178 25 Illus. (2 Col.), Map.
Published by Cambridge University Press, 2015
ISBN 10: 1108078311ISBN 13: 9781108078313
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reissue edition. 141 pages. 11.25x8.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.
Published by Cambridge University Press, 2014
ISBN 10: 1108078311ISBN 13: 9781108078313
Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany
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Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Attempting to separate myth from reality, this illustrated 1848 monograph by Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811-53) and Alexander Gordon Melville (1819-1901) describes the dodo and other extinct birds from islands in the Indian Ocean. Analysing their osteology in .
Published by London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1848, 1848
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition of this finely illustrated work. This copy has a superb provenance: with the bookplate of naturalist Sir William Jardine and his daughter Catherine Dorcas Maule Strickland, the author's wife. Strickland provides a comprehensive history and external description of the dodo, while the physician Melville analyzed the anatomy. A sparkling copy, rarely found in such collectible condition. With this important rediscovery of the extinct and largely forgotten dodo, Strickland set out to prove anthropogenic species loss and declared that "these singular birds. furnish the first clearly attested instances of extinction of organic species through human agency" (p. 5). To produce this monograph and support his claim about the reality of the bird Strickland gathered "historical, pictorial and anatomical evidence" (Barrow, p. 54). He reviewed fifteen original and independent accounts of the bird and went on to analyse five oil paintings of the species. Finally, he "turned to a discussion of the bird's meager surviving fragments: a foot in the British Museum, a cranium in the Gottorf Museum in Copenhagen, and a desiccated head and foot in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. The latter two fragments were all that remained of a once complete specimen that had decayed over the course of a century and barely escaped destruction during a bout of spring cleaning at the museum" (ibid.). The Dodo and its Kindred shows the "present state of the knowledge of the Didinae, in order to remove the many erroneous statements which are current, and to restore the lost organisms to their rank in the natural system" (publisher's catalogue). In Victorian fiction the dodo emerges most famously in Alice in Wonderland (1865), employed by Carroll as a caricature of himself. Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811 1853) was a natural historian, geologist, ornithologist, and member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science committee alongside Charles Darwin and Richard Owen. Strickland found his wife, Catherine Dorcas Maule (1825 1888), through his interest in natural history. He met "Sir William Jardine, bt, at the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting at Glasgow in 1840, having previously corresponded with him on ornithological topics. On 23 July 1845 he married Jardine's second daughter, Catherine Dorcas Maule. She assisted both her father and her husband with drawings of birds, some reproduced anastatically in Jardine's Contributions to Ornithology (1848 53). Stricklandwas fatally wounded when struck by a train while geologizing near Clarborough Tunnel in 1853" (ODNB). Prince Albert, Sir William Jardine, the ornithologist John Gould, natural history artist Prideaux John Selby, engraver William Home Lizars, and cartographer John Arrowsmith are found in the small list of 124 subscribers. Fine Bird Books, p. 145; Nissen IVB 900. Mark V. Barrow, Nature's Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology, 2011. Folio. Original light blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt stamp of dodo on front cover and Rodrigues solitaire on back cover, spine and covers elaborately stamped in blind, yellow surface-paper endpapers, top edge gilt. Housed in a dark blue cloth flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery. With hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece of a dodo by Vincent Brooks after Roelandt Savery, heightened with gum arabic, and 17 lithographed and anastatically-printed plates, including on folding and another hand-coloured, wood-engraved illustrations in the text. A few minor marks to covers, scattered foxing, text block cracked between pp. 50-1. A splendid copy.