CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE GREAT ORNITHOLOGISTS: The Ibis, a quarterly journal of ornithology
by SCLATER, Philip Lutley (editor)
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Forty-Five volumes. 8vo. Hundreds of exquisite full-page lithograph plates, many hand-colored, after Keulemans, Wolf, Jennens, Gronvold and others, text illustrations, distribution maps and tables. The first group of volumes also contain a list of members of the Union and the date of their election. The first six volumes bound in contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, spine in compartments, with the remaining volumes in library cloth; most have the original printed wrappers bound in where the journal was issued quarterly. Bookplate (withdrawn) of Trinity College Library on the paste-downs; a wonderful set.
First printings of this famous journal of ornithology. Included are:
Fifth series, Volumes 1-6 (1883-188
Sixth series, Volumes 1-6 (1889-1894)
Seventh series, Volumes 1-2 (1895-1896)
Eighth series, Volumes 2-6 (1902-1906)
Ninth series, Volumes 1-6 (1907-1912)
Tenth series, Volumes 1-6 (1913-1918)
Eleventh series, Volumes 1-6 (1919-1924)
Twelfth series, Volumes 1-6 (1925-1930)
Thirteenth series, Volumes 1-2 (1931-1932)
Authors include G.E. Shelley, Sclater, John Henry Gurney, Edward Hargitt, William C. Tait, Henry Seebohm, Osbert Salvin, O. Finsch, W. L. Buller, R. Bowdler Sharpe, Scott B. Wilson; literally all of the great ornithologists throughout the publishing history of this journal. Sclater (1829-1913), a co-founder and editor of Ibis, was a well-known and highly productive (over 1400 publications) ornithologist by trade. He is also remembered for his 1858 paper setting out the faunal regions classification of zoogeography later adopted by Alfred Russel Wallace.
Now subtitled the International Journal of Avian Science, it is in its present form a peer-reviewed scientific journal which covers ecology, conservation, behavior, palaeontology, and taxonomy of birds. For the first nearly one hundred years, however, the journal focused on a more popularistic type of article, often introducing species and images to the public for the first time.
Anker 219; Nissen IVB 476; Wood, p.396.
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- Bookseller
- Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16386
- Title
- CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE GREAT ORNITHOLOGISTS
- Author
- SCLATER, Philip Lutley (editor)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- FIRST EDITIONS
- Publisher
- John van Voorst (1883-1886); Gurney and Jackson (1887-1903); R.H. Porter (1904-1913); British Ornithologists' Union (1914-1932)
- Place of Publication
- London
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ornithology, art & illustrated books, birds, taxonomy, ecology, natural history, english imprints, 19th century, 20th century
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- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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