The Origin of Birds

by Gerhard Heilmann 

First edition.  New York:  D. Appleton and Company, 1927  

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD condition.

• Blue cloth covers are mostly clean, with gilt text and blind tooled border.
• Boards show some scuffs, edgewear.  Corners are scuffed.  See photos. 
• Spine has gilt text and is somewhat dimmed with crushed, frayed ends.
• Binding is intact; signs of separation at first gathering, pp. 136-137.  See photos. 
• Pastedowns and feps are toned, have some pencil marks at front.  
• Frontispiece, a color plate, is present. 
• Illustrations are bright and clear.  
• Interior is gently age-toned, exhibits a tear to margin of pg. 135.  See photos.  
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• PS2024.0411

210 pages. 6 x 9.25 inches

A very good first edition copy of this early synopsis of bird evolution by Gerhard Heilmann (1859-1946), Danish artist and amateur zoologist.  While Heilmann's work received little attention in Denmark, the English edition became highly influential due to the breadth of evidence synthesized as well as the artwork used to support its arguments. Heilmann arrived at the conclusion that birds must be descended from thecodonts, archosaurs that lived during the Permian and Triassic periods.  Although this conclusion was later shown to be inaccurate, The Origin of Birds set the international agenda for research in bird evolution for nearly half a century, and much of its research remains of interest. (Wiki)

With two plates in color from paintings by the author, and 140 photographs and text figures from drawings by the author.

First U.S. edition.

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