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249 König (Alexander). Katalog der Nido-Oologischen Sammlung (Vogeleiersammlung) im Museum Alexander Koenig in Bonn a. Rhein, Bonn: Alexander Koenig, [1932], 2 mounted photogravure portrait plates, 18 chromolithographic plates mounted on card, original red diced half calf, extremities slightly rubbed, a few faint marks to spines, 4to Provenance: Leo von Boxberger (1879-1950), German explorer and naturalist (bookplate). Nissen IVB 523 (erroneous plate count). (4) £100 - £150
248 König (Alexander Ferdinand). Reisen und Forschungen in Algerien, 2 volumes in one, 1st edition, [Berlin: R. Friedländer, 18956], 24 photographic plates, 14 hand-coloured lithographic plates after J. G. Keulemans or E. de Maes, 2 chromolithographic plates, folding map, pencilled marginalia to volume 2, rear inner hinge taperepaired, contemporary pebble-grain maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt, 8vo, together with: Hume (Allan, editor), My Scrap Book: or Rough Notes on Indian Oology and Ornithology, 2 parts in one volume [all published], 1st edition, Calcutta: C. B. Lewis, 1869, browning, closed tear to pp. 259/60, a few marginal worm-tracks to outer leaves, original blue cloth, recased, 8vo, Harvie-Brown (John Alexander), Travels of a Naturalist in Northern Europe. Norway, 1871, Archangel, 1872, Petchora, 1875, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1905, 25 plates, 4 folding maps, original red cloth, 8vo, Wright (R. G., & Douglas Dewar), The Ducks of India, 1st edition, London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1925, 22 colour plates, original cloth (spine faded, mottling to covers), dust jacket (edges reinforced with tape verso), 8vo, and 3 similar works, including Salim Ali, Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan, 10 volumes, 1st edition, 1968-74 Wood pp. 420 (König), 394 (Hume), 637 (Wright); Zimmer pp. 313 (Hume), 292-3 (Harvie-Brown). König’s work is rare, with no other copy traced at auction, and no record in Nissen or Anker. It may have originally appeared in the Journal für Ornithologie, which is referenced in the captions to the colour plates. The photographic plates include several interesting ethnographic studies. (17) £300 - £400
250 Lilford (Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron). Notes on the Birds of Northamptonshire and Neighbourhood, 2 volumes, 1st edition, large-paper issue, London: R. H. Porter, 1895, half-titles, frontispiece, 24 photogravure plates after drawings by Archibald Thorburn, 43 wood-engraved plates after G. E. Lodge, linen-backed folding map, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, contemporary green half morocco, spines sunned to tan, 4to (28.5 x 21.5cm) Provenance: Harry Clarke Jervoise (1832-1911), British diplomat (engraved bookplates). Mullens & Swann p. 355; cf. Nissen IVB 564, Wood p. 436, Zimmer p. 400 (all for the octavo issue). According to Mullens and Swann there were 100 large-paper copies only, printed for subscribers. In the octavo issue Lodge’s illustrations are printed in the letterpress rather than as separate plates. (2) £100 - £200
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