Hunting and Commercial Birds of European Russa and the Caucasus Vol. 3

by M.A. Menzbir

illustrated by Archibald Thorburn and John Gerrard Keulemans 

First edition, in Russian.  Moscow, 1902  

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD- condition.

• Brown cloth covers have titles and illustration in black and gilt, with inset illustration in silver and black. 
• Boards show some smudges, bumps, edgewear.  Corners are bumped, scuffed.  See photos.  
• Spine has text and decoration in gilt and black and is darkened, with crushed ends.  See photos.
• Binding has a little play, some cracking visible at front cover.  
• Patterned end papers/ pastedowns show some toning at edges.
• Owner's name is inked on title page.  
• Illustrations, 140 color plates, are bright and clear, with marginal age-toning, tissue guards with captions; some tissue guards are adhered to the plates.
• Interior is gently age-toned, exhibits light edgewear.  Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• PS2026.0304

140 plates. 6.75 x 10 inches

First Edition.  Publisher's beveled brown boards have tooled frame to bottom board, ornate stamped border, gilt and black decoration and titles in Cyrillic characters to tope board, with inset bird illustration in silver and black.  Boards show some age in smudges and edgewear, with crushing at spine ends.  Binding a bit fragile, with some splitting evident inside front cover.  Interior is toned; plates generally very good, with tissue covers printed with captions.  Some tissues are stuck to plates; of the 140 plates, 109 are good.  Condition is overall Very Good-.

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Menzbir (1855-1935) was a prominent Russian zoologist whose early 20th-century work, including studies around 1900, documented the ecology, distribution, and habits of Russian birds.  The book here for sale is Volume 3, plates, of his three-volume study. 

The illustrations are the work of prominent ornithological illustrators of the period.  Many of the plates are by Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935), a Scottish artist known for his watercolors of birds in their environment.  Most of his work is devoted to the birds of the British Isles.  Other plates, signed JGK, are by John Gerrard Keulemans (1842-1912), who worked extensively in the British Isles and contributed illustrations to many works including the British Museum Catalogue of Birds.   

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