Travel, Atlases, Maps, Photographs & Natural History
Travel, Atlases, Maps, Photographs & Natural History
Books from a Private Collection
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September 21, 09:03 AM GMT
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3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Books from a Private Collection
Edward Thomas Booth
Rough notes on the birds observed during twenty-five years' shooting and collecting in the British Islands. London: R.H. Porter, 1881-1887
FIRST EDITION, 3 volumes, folio (426 x 332mm.), 114 hand-coloured lithographed plates after Edward Neale, 2 coloured maps, contemporary half morocco by R.H. Porter, top edges gilt, some light spotting, extremities slightly rubbed
Edward Booth was a wealthy bird-watcher and sportsman who stuffed his own specimens and mounted them in their natural surroundings in glass cases. It was these specimens, now in the Brighton Museum, which Neale used for his drawings. "These are very handsome folio plates whose composition is similar to those in Dresser's book" (Jackson).
PROVENANCE:
Hanbury Barclay (1836-1909), armorial bookplate, sale in these rooms 4 February 1925, lot 705; William Shipton, M.D., bookplate; Bernard Quaritch, collation note on rear pastedown
LITERATURE:
Anker 51; Fine Bird Books, p.61; Mullens & Swann 84; Nissen IVB 121; Zimmer, pp.79-80; Wood, p.349