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Pairing S. Dillon Ripley's quarter century of study with over 70 color and black and white illustrations by J. Fenwick Lansdowne, this book marks a memorable ornithological publishing event. Both the book's subject matter and its manner of production lavishly illustrated, printed on special paper with relentless attention to every detail represent worthy objects of celebration and preservation.
Among the least known and most elusive of any major bird species, rails manage to colonize remote islands, impenetrable jungles and desolate shorelines in almost all regions of the world. Particularly interesting is their enigmatic evolution; once having arrived at a suitable habitat, they often lose their power of sustained flight and, over the centuries, their instinct for migration. With the rapid disappearance of their habitats and their vulnerability to predation, this book serves the very important function of establishing scholarship on the rail family.
This is the deluxe edition limited to 400 numbered copies signed by the author and artist, made with the finest materials and including a loose numbered and signed original lithograph.
Among the least known and most elusive of any major bird species, rails manage to colonize remote islands, impenetrable jungles and desolate shorelines in almost all regions of the world. Particularly interesting is their enigmatic evolution; once having arrived at a suitable habitat, they often lose their power of sustained flight and, over the centuries, their instinct for migration. With the rapid disappearance of their habitats and their vulnerability to predation, this book serves the very important function of establishing scholarship on the rail family.
This is the deluxe edition limited to 400 numbered copies signed by the author and artist, made with the finest materials and including a loose numbered and signed original lithograph.
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Dillon Ripley, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, a scholar who knows the world's more esoteric birds perhaps as well as anyone, and Fenwick Lansdowne, one of our finest bird portraitists, have combined their talents to produce a work which will be coveted not only by serious ornithologists but also by every collector of fine natural history books. --Roger Tory Peterson
The Rails of the World fills up a very important gap, and it does it unusually well. The text and the illustrations are both of the highest quality, and it is also easy to read and to consult. The rails, of course, constitute one of the most interesting,
attractive and widely distributed group of birds. --Jean Delacour
The Rails of the World fills up a very important gap, and it does it unusually well. The text and the illustrations are both of the highest quality, and it is also easy to read and to consult. The rails, of course, constitute one of the most interesting,
attractive and widely distributed group of birds. --Jean Delacour
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- PublisherDavid R. Godine, Publisher
- Publication date1977
- ISBN 10 0879231998
- ISBN 13 9780879231996
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages432
- IllustratorLansdowne Fenwick
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Book Description Lansdowne, Fenwick (illustrator). Small folio,406 pp.,41 colour plates by J. Fenwick Lansdowne, fine copy in dustwrapper. One of the better modern bird monograph. Seller Inventory # 3397
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: As New. Lansdowne, Fenwick (illustrator). Folio. Clean, unmarked pages. Good binding and cover. Red leather spine. Hardcover and slip case. Minor wear/soiling to slip case. Includes review notes. xx, 406 p. : illustrations. This is an oversized or heavy book, that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Seller Inventory # 1912200016
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Rails Of The World A Monograph of the Family Rallidae. With Forty-one Paintings by J. Fenwick Lansdowne and a Chapter on Fossil Species by Storrs L. Olson
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Lansdowne, Fenwick (illustrator). First, Limited edition. Folio, 406 pages, half red morocco, cloth, raised bands of spine scuffed, in matching publisher's slipcase in near-fine condition. Copy no. 378 of only 400 in the Collector's Edition, each with an original lithograph by Lansdowne, signed, commissioned only for this issue. Printed by Martino Mardersteig on Magnani of Pescia for this edition. Colophon signed by Ripley and Lansdowne. Seller Inventory # 0008484
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Book Description Condition: Fine. Lansdowne, Fenwick (illustrator). In grey slipcase. Large format. Red leather spine with raised bands, with gilt title and gilt decoration, grey cloth covers, red leather corners, very well illustrated. Seller Inventory # 056537-6
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Lansdowne, Fenwick (illustrator). Limited Edition. No. 338 of 400 copies; signed on limitation page by author and illustrator. Tall, thick folio volume in slipcase. Bound in red leather and oatmeal-colored cloth with slipcase covered in same oatmeal-colored cloth with red leather trim. Full page color plates; B&W illustrations; maps. Condition: fine in fine slipcase. 406 pages. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 6160JESA
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Rails of the World: A Monograph of the Family Rallidae. This firts edition was designed by Crimilda Pontes and produced in Verona, Italy under the direction of MArtino Mardersteig at the Stamperia Valdonnega. The text, set in Monotype Bembo, was printed in fine screen offset. The paper was made especially by MAgnani of Pescia. Recalcati of Milan was the bilder.
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Book Description Condition: COME NUOVO. Lansdowne, Fenwick (illustrator). With forty one paintings by Fenwick Lansdowne, and a chapter on fossil species by Storrs L.Olson. cm.28x42, pp.(I), (XX), 1-406, Stupendously colorful full-page color plates and that are augmented with learned text and mezza pelle e titoli e fregi in oro al dorso. Cofanetto e piatti in tela grezza grigia realizzata da legatoria Recalcati di Milano, come si evince anche da ex libris cartaceo applicato in appendice. Edizione Deluxe. Deluxe edition. NOTA:ex libris cartaceo applicato in appendice / Boston, David R.Godine Publisher cm.28x42, pp.(I), (XX), 1-406, Stupendously colorful full-page color plates and that are augmented with learned text and brilliantly conceived research, plus an additional chapter on the fossil species. Bellissima rilegatura artigianale in mezza pelle e titoli e fregi in oro al dorso. Cofanetto e piatti in tela grezza grigia realizzata da legatoria Recalcati di Milano, come si evince anche da ex libris cartaceo applicato in appendice. Edizione Deluxe. Deluxe edition. brilliantly conceived research, plus an additional chapter on the fossil species. Bellissima rilegatura artigianale in. Seller Inventory # 299269
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Rails of the World. A Monograph of the Family Rallidae (and a chapter on fossil species)
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Lansdowne, J. Fenwick. (illustrator). First Numbered Limited Signed Edition. HEAVY. xx, 406pp, index, bibliography, bvw line drawings and photographs, 17 distribution maps, 41 color plates (inc frontis). Or ivory cloth flecked with brown with red leather spine and corners (ie 1/2 leather) with titles in gilt to spine presented in sturdy cloth covered slipcase with red leather highlights at head and foot of open edge, patterned endpapers. Edition limited to 400 copies of which this #298, signed by both authors and numbered on limitation page ( colophon). Some toning/foxing to slipcase, and also the cloth of the rear cover, otherwise a very clean fresh copy. A narrow strip of color on the front free endpaper has been abraded in the removel of the previous owners name. This copy lacks the monochrome lithograph as is so often the case. An impressive, in both size (35.5 x 26 x 5cm) and content, monograph of the Rallidae, or rails, of the world. The full page color plates are spectacular and the scholarly text is well researched. An additional chapter on the fossil species rounds out this important volume. Size: Folio. Signed by Authors. Seller Inventory # 018589
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Book Description Hardcover. J. Fenwick Lansdowne (illustrator). Oatmeal-colored cloth over boards; Red leather at spine and corners; Gilt titling and raised bands at spine; 406 pp.; 17 maps; 40 color plates. Number 46 of 400 signed and numbered copies in this edition ; Signed by Ripley and Lansdowne; Also inscribed by Ripley at half-title page; Lacks slipcase and lithograph that came with this edition. VG- (Minor wear to leather; Slipcase and lithograph missing). Seller Inventory # 124092
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