Large Birds: Signed (2 results)
THE GALLINACEOUS GAME BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA including the Pratridges, Grouse, Ptarmigan, and Wild Turkeys [Large Paper Limited Edition, SIGNED] With Accounts of Their Dispersion, Habits, Nesting, Etc. and Full Descriptions of Their Plumage of Both Adult and Young, Together with Their Popular and Scientific Names
Elliot, Daniel Giraud ; [SIGNED] ; John E. Thayer's Copy ; Edwin W. Sheppard (illustrator)
Published by Francis P. Harper, New York 1897
- Hardcover
- Signed
Seller: Antiquarian Bookshop, Washington, DC, U.S.A.Antiquarian Bookshop
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Autograph; Illustrated with 46 plates with tissue guards; xviii, (1), 20-220, 46 plates pages; Example #8 of a SIGNED LIMITED Edition of 100 copies on large paper. Contents clean and secure in original white cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine and a colour image of a bird…on front board, some toning at spine, top edges gilt, light foxing to cloth, contents bright and fresh. 30 leaf colour chart mounted to rear endpaper to assist with colours mentioned in the text. Bookplate of John E. Thayer (1862-1933) of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. A book written both for those who love to seek these birds afield with dog and gun, as well as those who may only desire to learn the ways of such attractive creatures in their haunts. Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835 1915) was a wealthy American zoologist and the founder of the American Ornithologist Union. He made expeditions to Africa and Alaska and was the first curator of zoology at the Field Museum in Chicago. From 1869 to 1879, he was in London and established strong links to British ornithologists and naturalists. Elliot used his wealth to publish a series of sumptuous books on birds and other animals. Elliot wrote the text himself and commissioned artists such as Joseph Wolf and Joseph Smit, both of whom had worked for John Gould, to provide the illustrations. Col. John E. Thayer (1862-1933) was one of twin boys born to Nathaniel Thayer II (a banker who financed building Harvard's Thayer Hall) and Cornelia van Rensselaer Thayer. Thayer graduated from Harvard College in 1885 and engaged in business before becoming one of the world's most prominent ornithologists. Thayer began collecting North American bird specimens and housed his collections close to his home in Lancaster. He used his wealth to sponsor various natural history expeditions and in 1906 he sent Wilmot W. Brown Jr. to Guadalupe Island off Pacific Mexico. In 1913, Thayer and other Harvard graduates sponsored an expedition to Alaska and Siberia, with Joseph S. Dixon and Winthrop Sprague Brooks as zoological collectors. He eventually built a beautiful brick building in 1903, opening it to the public as a museum a year later. Thayer became ill in 1928, and donated his collection of 28,000 skins and 15,000 eggs and nests to Harvard. These included the first clutches ever collected of spoon-billed sandpiper and surfbird. After Thayer's death Harvard received his collection of 3,500 mounted birds.; Signed by Author.
More imagesPublished by Occidental Publishing Co, Seattle 1909
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller3-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Very Good+ / Very Good. Limited Edition. 4to. Pp. xxii, 458; iii, 459-997. Frontis. mounted photograph with red-captioned tissue guard in each volume. Illustrated throughout with halftone black & white photographs and black & white photographic prints mounted on colored paper with red-captioned tissue guard…s, plus black & white and color illustrations by Brooks with red-captioned tissue guards. Index, analytical keys. Number 116 of the large paper edition limited to 200, volume 1 signed by Dawson. Head edges gilt. Bound in two-tone gray paper covered boards, printed label on spine, halftone photo endpapers. Volume 2 spine repaired and label replaced. Corners bumped and worn, covers lightly rubbed and soiled. Scarce in original boards. DAVIS, 2340. SMITH, 2340. See SOLIDAY, I-710. Allan Brooks (illustrator).
