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.
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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.
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Lansdowne, Fenwick. Fine. 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. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 432 p. Contains: Illustrations.
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Like New. 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.
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Lansdowne, J. Fenwick. Near Fine in Slipcase jacket. Folio. Signed by Authors 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.
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J. Fenwick Lansdowne. VG-(Minor wear to leather; Slipcase and lithograph missing) 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.