‎Londres‎

‎Zoological Society of London‎

‎Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. Volume XVI.‎

‎London Longmans Green and Co. for the Society 1901-1903. Large 4to 31.7 x 25.0 cm. 427 pp.; 38 plates of which several in fine chromolithography. Contemporary blue half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title. = Rare complete single volume with eight fine papers on various zoological topics including Sir Edwin Ray Lankester on the recently discovered okapi introducing a new genus Okapia Beddard on the enigmatic pigmy whale; Howes and Swinnerton on the mysterious New Zealand Tuatara ‘lizard’; Boulenger on fishes of Lake Tanganyika and Budget on the development of West African fish; Degen on the origin of feathering and two more. Most are nicely illustrated in particular the okapi pigmy whale skeleton on a very large plate and both fish papers. Provenance: bookplate of the British zoologist Richard Assheton 1863-1915 dated 1915. Tiny label of a Cambridge bookbinder on the front pastedown; leather dry a bit flaking at the board edges and spine ends. A few plates with light mostly marginal foxing much less so than usual otherwise a very good complete copy. Cat. BMNH p. 2397; Cat. BMNH Supplement p. 605 for Lankester; Dean I p. 165 for Boulenger. hardcover‎

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‎Zoological Society of London [Philip Lutley Sclater; Edward Greenaway; Edward Johnstone; James Tennant; Alexander Nowell Sherson‎

‎Zoological Society of London Four handbills relating to the election of the Society's council and officers for 1870 and a copy of 'Report of the Auditors of the Accounts of the Zoological Society of London Appointed January 21 1869.'‎

‎Report dated from '11 Hanover Square February 26 1869'; handbills all dated 1869. All items are good on lightly aged paper. The 'Report of the Auditors of the Accounts' is seven pages octavo stitched and unbound. It consists of five full-page tables: 'Receipts' 'Payments' 'Comparison of Receipts in 1867 and 1868' 'Comparison of Payments in 1867 and 1868' and one showing 'The Assets and Liabilities of the Society on the 31st of December 1868'. Comment by the seven auditors all named on final page remarking on 'the unexampled state of prosperity of the Zoological Society at the close of the previous year'. The four handbills are each on one side of a 12mo leaf. They consist of a notice of the election by the secretary Philip Lutley Sclater 'The Band of the First Life Guards will by permission of Col. the Hon. Dudley de Ros perform in the Gardens' and three balloting lists each dated 29 April 1869: for the Officers on pink paper the Council on yellow paper and the Committee of Publication on green paper. An attractive collection of Victorian London Zoo ephemera. Report dated from '11 Hanover Square, February 26, 1869'; handbills all dated 1869. unknown‎

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‎Zucchi, John E.‎

‎The Little Slaves of the Harp : Italian Child Street Musicians in Nineteenth-Century Paris, London and New York (Studies in Ethnic History, No. 13)‎

‎208 pages including index and bibliography. Virtual slaves, these children were uprooted from their villages in central and southern Italy to perform as barrel-organists, harpists, violinists, fifers, pipers, and animal exhibitors. "This extremely, unusual study, enlivened by photographs, throws a floodlight on ethnic prejudice, cultural constructs of childhood, Tammany Hall politics and 19th-century immigration and working conditions." - Publishers Weekly. Very light wear. Glossy laminated covers. Clean and unmarked. Excellent copy. Book‎

‎ZWART Pieter‎

‎Islington. A History and Guide. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER‎

‎8vo., First Edition, with a large folding plan as frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed and creased at edges.‎

‎Émile de la Bédollière‎

‎Londres et les anglais. Illustrés par Gavarni. Première édition.‎

‎Paris, Barba, 1862. Kl.-fol. Mit Porträt, illustriertem Titel sowie 23 Holzstich-Tafeln von Gavarni. 1 Bl., 379 Seiten Roter Originalhalblederband 27 cm‎

‎Deckel etwas beschabt, Rücken leicht berieben, die Ecken und Kanten bestoßen. die Seiten nahezu fleckenfrei. - Reizvolle Darstellung des viktorianischen London und der Engländer aus französischer Sicht. Bédollière beschreibt die Weltstadt, das Zentrum des Empire und seine glamouröse Oberschicht ( Oper, West-End, Regent Street, Hochzeit in hohen Kreisen), zeichnet aber auch, und dies durchweg mit Sympathie, ein einfühlsames Bild der unteren Schichten und Randgruppen, wie Straßenmusikanten, Akrobaten, Barmädchen, Straßendiebe, fliegende Händler. - Im Begleittext . auch ein Verzeichnis der englischen Umgangssprache und Gaunersprache.‎

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