Pemberley Natural History Books: Zoology,Taxidermy
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Practical Taxidermy: A Manual of Instruction to the Amateur in Collecting, Preserving, and Setting Up Natural History Specimens of All Kinds
L. Upcott Gill n.d. [1884] viii, 354, [2] + 12, [4]-ads, 4 plates, folding plan, 58 text figs. . HB. 8vo, orig. gilt and black-stamped dec. cloth, patterned endpapers. Small light stain to top edge at rear, just extending to blank upper margin of last 50 pages. Very good, bright copy.. Second edition (first published 1884), undated reissue. Publisher's catalogue and advertisements to rear..
-- Boeknummer: S55678
GBP 55.00 [Appr.: EURO 65.25]
Catalogus: Zoology,Taxidermy
Trefwoorden: Natural History; Taxidermy
Practical Taxidermy: A Manual of Instruction to the Amateur in Collecting, Preserving, and Setting up Natural History Specimens of all Kinds
The Bazaar [1878] 155, [5]-ads, 39 text figs. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, gilt tiger skin vignette to front board. Spine slightly faded, minor wear to extremities; light foxing to prelims. Vg. Bookplate of W.H.B Fletcher (1852-1941) to endpaper. Fletcher was a land owner and politician who also had a deep facination for natural history and in particular trees. He founded Hotham Park House and Marine Park Gardens in Bognor regis, both well known for their wide range of exotic tree species.. First edition, undated. Scarce.Freeman 539..
Boeknummer: S55708
GBP 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 71.25]
Catalogus: Zoology,Taxidermy
Trefwoorden: Decorative Binding; Natural History; Taxidermy
Complete History of the Echalaz Collection
Printed by Roffey & Clark [1909] 325, portrait frontis, 24 b/w plates. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, slightly rubbed, gt, corners bumped. Patterned endpapers. Vg.. First edition. Scarce. A history of ornithological specimens, collected primarily from Britain, by Lieut.-Col. Charles Theodore Echalaz (1844-1913). The collection was gifted to the Urban District Council of Waterloo (Liverpool), who opened the Waterloo Museum, specially to house the tazidermy collection. The collection was struck by German bombs, targeted by theives, and nearly forgotten in a basement bellow the town hall when the collection fell out of favour. This 1909 book serves as a guide to the collection and the birds contained within, and is an invaluable guide to an important taxidermy collection.Mullens & Swann p. 191..
Boeknummer: S55652
GBP 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 148]
Catalogus: Zoology,Taxidermy
Trefwoorden: Birds; Ornithology; Mammals; Mammalogy; Museum collection
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