Author: Layard, E.L.; Sharpe, R. Bowdler
Title: The Birds of South Africa
Description: Quaritch 1875-1884 xxvii, 890, 12 hand-col plates. . HB. Roy. 8vo, orig. half roan, scuffed, rubbed, some wear, marbled endpapers. Cracked between frontis and title, but still firm. Edges uncut; minor chipping, short tear to outer, blank margin of a few pages. A few marginal pencil annotation. Good. Provenance: Ownership signature in pencil to blank recto of frontispiece, dated 1900, J. Riddell Lt. 16th (Queen's) Lancers. George Hutton 'Jack' Riddell, (1878-1953), served in South Africa during the second Boer War (1900-1902). Also with bookplate of South African ornithologist, R.C. Bolster.. New [second] edition, revised and augmented by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847-1909). Greatly enlarged from the unillustrated first edition of 1867. Sharpe rewrote much of the original text, and identified several new species. Also included in this edition are 12 fine hand-coloured lithographic plates by the famous Dutch bird illustrator John Gerrard Keulemans (1842-1912). There is a gap in pagination between pages 856 and 867 (end of text and beginning of index) - this is the case in all copies.Nissen IVB 534.

Keywords: ABA 2024-12; Birds; Avifauna; Keulemans; PBFA; South Africa; Africa


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