Author: Abel Chapman; George Bolam
Title: Memories of Fourscore Years Less Two, 1851-1929
Description: London, Gurney and Jackson, 1830 . First edition. Cloth. A bright example of the first edition of naturalist Abel Chapman's charmingly illustrated and posthumously published biography. The first edition of this work, illustrated with a photogravure frontispiece and with twenty-four colour plates by W. H. Riddell, alongside vignette illustrations from the author. Collated, complete.A lovely biography from Sunderland-born hunter-naturalist Abel Chapman, who is remembered for having helped in the establishment of South Africa's first game reserve. Chapman provides accounts of salmon fishing, game and waterfowl shooting, encounters with lions, and discussion of his travels in Egypt, Africa and Europe.With three pages of advertisements to the rear.From the library of Dr. Ian Durance Pennie, a Scottish ornithologist and physician, who co-founded the Scottish Ornithologists' Club. He contributed essays on a variety of important journals, spending most of his career in Sutherland. Pennie's bookplate to the front paste down. With his bookplate to the front pastedown. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, exceptionally bright, with bumping to spine head and tail. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Abel Chapman; W. H. Riddell. Very Good Indeed .
Keywords: i d pennie ornithology birds nature ornithology Abel Chapman; W. H. Riddell
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Title: Memories of Fourscore Years Less Two, 1851-1929
Description: London, Gurney and Jackson, 1830 . First edition. Cloth. A bright example of the first edition of naturalist Abel Chapman's charmingly illustrated and posthumously published biography. The first edition of this work, illustrated with a photogravure frontispiece and with twenty-four colour plates by W. H. Riddell, alongside vignette illustrations from the author. Collated, complete.A lovely biography from Sunderland-born hunter-naturalist Abel Chapman, who is remembered for having helped in the establishment of South Africa's first game reserve. Chapman provides accounts of salmon fishing, game and waterfowl shooting, encounters with lions, and discussion of his travels in Egypt, Africa and Europe.With three pages of advertisements to the rear.From the library of Dr. Ian Durance Pennie, a Scottish ornithologist and physician, who co-founded the Scottish Ornithologists' Club. He contributed essays on a variety of important journals, spending most of his career in Sutherland. Pennie's bookplate to the front paste down. With his bookplate to the front pastedown. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, exceptionally bright, with bumping to spine head and tail. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Abel Chapman; W. H. Riddell. Very Good Indeed .
Keywords: i d pennie ornithology birds nature ornithology Abel Chapman; W. H. Riddell
Price: GBP 40.00 = appr. US$ 57.12 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 881F52
- Book number: 881F52
See more books from our catalog: Science, Medicine & Natural History