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BIRDS OF THE HUMBER DISTRICT Provenance - Knockgray Galloway Clark-Kennedy Alexander William Maxwell Clark Kennedy 1851 -1894 and later passed to Francis Jourdain

1872réf. 037067London: John Van Voorst 1872. Book. Illus. by Keulemans J. G. frontispiece. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo. pp. xii 231 pages; frontispiece plate"A Flamborough Trophy Fulmar Petrel." by Keulemans. Green cloth boards very good with a little general wear. Contents clean and tight some foxing to the endpapers on the reverse of the front free endpaper are the signatures of Alexander William Clark Kennedy of the Cold Stream guards 1873 and the initials of Rev. F. C. R Joudain 1899. A good book with a significant provenance firstly belonging to A. W. Clark Kennedy and later given to Rev. Francis Jourdain author of books such as A Handbook of British Birds by Kirkman and Joudain Clark-Kennedy Alexander William Maxwell 1851 -1894 Alexander William Maxwell Clark- Kennedy was born at Rochester Kent. He attended school at Aldershot and then at Eton College. He married Hon. Lettice Lucy Hewitt daughter of James 4th Viscount Lifford d. 1939 in Donegal in 1875 with whom he had five sons and two daughters. In 1867 he inherited the family estate of Knockgray in Galloway. While still at Eton at the age of sixteen he wrote The birds of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire: a contribution to the natural history of the two counties Eton 1868 which proved very popular. Following Eton he joined the Coldstream Guards rising to the rank of Captain. He continued his interests in hunting shooting and fishing and was a member of several societies and associations becoming a Fellow of the Linnaean Society and the Antiquarian Society of Scotland. He also penned To the Arctic regions and back in six weeks : being a summer tour to Lapland and Norway : with notes on sport and natural history London 1878 and Robert the Bruce: a poem historical and romantic London 1884. Ref: Ballance p203; Freeman 817; Mullens & Swann p.144. John Van Voorst Hardcover

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THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA Volume III. Robins Wrens Finches volumed 3

1991réf. 031577Melbourne: Hill House 1991. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Facsimile Edition. Elephant Folio. Limited facsimile edition this copy stamped no. 203 to the front end paper. A fine copy with minimal wear contents clean and tight unmarked. Original green Japanese Saifu cloth gilt; pp. iv plus 97 fine coloured plates with accompanying text. One of a series of remarkably exact same-size facsimile of the original in the British Library printed by offset lithography on acid-free matt art paper and hand-bound. The Hill House series contained the only authentic full-size facsimiles of the works of John Gould - this volume is one of the original printings and now out of print. Publisher's blurb thus "They are not reproductions because no camera was used in transferring the images from the B.M.N.H. originals. Indeed the originals are taken by Museum security courier to the repro-house in Singapore where they are subjected to the preparation of new plates for printing on 5 and 6 colour offset presses. The paper used is 130 gsm mat art paper. As facsimiles the books carry faithfully every spot mark or stain of the originals. They also carry the original Museum Department of Zoology stamps and librarian's annotations. From behind glass the naked eye would be unable to distinguish the original from the facsimile so accurate is the colour printing. Also as facsimiles they are exactly the same size as the originals Imperial Folio: 22" x 15". Each volume is hand sewn cased-in and bound between 4 mm. gilt stamped on the spine and with the gold Crown Cipher of the British Museum Natural History on the front and blind embossed on the inner margin of the front boards. The end-papers are of special wood-free heavy grade paper printed in a generated repetitive pattern of the Museum's Library stamps. The publisher has not intruded into the authenticity of the books leaving the publication data printed only on the very last page at the end of the book block. Each copy is hand inspected by the printer's quality control officer individually numbered on the inside front board. Thus no two copies are exactly the same. Although initial volumes were printed in more than 500 copies later production runs have not exceeded 300 for world-wide sale. This has been caused by a relative shortage of quality paper together with the intensive hand-labour involved in their production." This book is held in stock. A postal surcharge may apply on this heavy book. Hill House Hardcover

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