- A few lvs. sl. waterst. in lower blank margin or w. restored tears, otherwise contents fine.
= Mennessier de la Lance II, p.491; Lipperheide Tc51; Nissen, ZBI 3593. Rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXIII.
- Occas. sl. foxed. Good copy. = With 11 anatomical ills. on the fold. plate.
- Boards sl. worn and creased.
AND 1 other similar.
- Htitle and 6 textp. w. (partly erased) owner's annots./ markings in ballpoint; new endpapers. Leather on binding sl. chafed/ rubbed.
Lowe, C.B. and Allison, W. Das Züchten von Renn-Pferden nach dem Zahlen-System. German transl. Kirschy. Berlin, Berliner Buch- und Zeitungs-Druckerei Union, 1897, XIV,(2),282p., 10 photogr. plates, fold. genealogical table, contemp. gilt cl.
- Hinges weak; first plate and title sl. foxed/ stained. Binding worn/ dam.
- Fine copy.
- Hinges and corners sl. rubbed, otherwise a good/ fine copy.
- A very fine copy.
= Vicaire VII, p.950; Mennessier de la Lance II, p.599: "Ouvrage important, puisé à de bonnes sources et illustré de nombreux et beaux dessins".
- Fine, attractive unif. bound set. Ad 1: Podeschi 458 (ed. 1938).
- Both frontisp. sl. foxed; owner's entry on title-p. of vol. 1. = Not in the usual bibliographies.
AND 1 other: T.H. BROWNE, History of the English Turf 1904-1930 (ibid., 1931, 2 vols., num. photogr. plates, modern unif. rexine, 4to. Podeschi 388).
- Foxed; occas. sl. browned. = Jubiläumsausgabe zum 14. September 1869.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown. Binding trifle rubbed. Otherwise fine.
= Thiébaud p.161; Schwerdt I, p.101. "C'est le plus bel ouvrage publié en France sur l'histoire de la chasse" (Thiébaud).
- Lacks 3 lvs. (33/34, 43/44 and 315/316); somewhat browned. = Lindner 11.1207.01.
= Rare. Guide for the shooting competition organized during the international hunting exhibition of 1937.
AND 1 other: ERZHERZOG RUDOLF, Jagden und Beobachtungen (Vienna, 1887, frontisp. portrait, orig. gilt hcalf. Poor copy, bookblock and a few lvs. loose, spine dam.).
- Lvs. partly (sl.) browned. Binding soiled; corners and spine-ends bumped/ worn. = Rare.
- Foxed.
= Rare. Present are: year 2, no.0 (Probeblatt); year 3, no.1-5, 8, 10-31, 33-52; year 4, no.1-17, 19-33, 35-52; year 5, no. 1-26, 28-52; year 6, no.3-6, 9-14, 16-21, 23-28, 35-40 and year 7, no.36, 40 and 48-52. And a few content leaves. Souhart 643.
= Signed on last page in contemp. hand: "P. Hanneman".
- Some foxing.
= Originally published in installments. Goldsmiths' 23476; British Bee Books 189; not in Einaudi.
- Dedication on halftitle, dated 1878. = From the Naturalist's Library (40 vols. total).
AND 4 miscellaneous others i.a. LINNEY GILBERT (ed.) The Beauties & Wonders of Nature and Science (...) (London, n.d. (±1840), (double-p.) woodengr. plates, orig. gilt and blindst. cl., a.e.g.) and W.C.A. BLEW, A History of Steeple-chasing (London, 1901, handcol. lithogr. plates, modern hcalf).
- Vol. 2 (of 2) only. Partly (sl.) foxed/ browned; some pages w. waterstains. Joints weak; covers (sl.) soiled; corners and spine-ends worn.
= Nissen, ZBI 334. With finely handcoloured plates of i.a. birds, caterpillars and butterflies.
ADDED ±35 handcol. woodengr. plates, 27,5x21 cm., from W.F. KIRBY, European Butterflies and Moths (trifle yellowed, but otherwise fine).