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place of the more pedestrian Thomas. He dined with Princess Charlotte, and on 29 May was knighted by the prince regent, who praised him in a twenty- minute speech at a Carlton House levee’ (ODNB). Founded upon Raffles’ profound and broad researches and personal experience, The History of Java has been acknowledged as one of the most important English books of the period: in 1861, Lowndes described it as ‘A very elaborate and valuable work’, and, as John Bastin wrote in his introduction to the Oxford University Press facsimile edition a century later, ‘There is no space here to attempt to assess the place which the History of Java occupies in the development of Indonesian studies, but it would seem impossible to exaggerate its importance. Since its publication the general estimation of the of the book has increased enormously. William Marsden, whose own History of Sumatra obviously served as Raffles’ model, described it as an “excellent history”, and even those Dutch critics who have found little to praise in his administration of Java have recognised its merits [...] In 1817 the History of Java represented a pioneer study; today it stands as one of the classics of South-East Asian historiography’ (T.S. Raffles The History of Java (Kuala Lumpur, London and New York: 1965), I, p. [9]). This first edition was published in two forms: large paper (sold at £8 8s, believed to be an issue of 250 copies) and ordinary paper (£6 6s, believed to be an issue of 650 copies). Our set is from the ordinary-paper edition,and (where discernable), the text is watermarked either 1816 or 1817 and the plates are watermarked 1816.
Abbey, Travel, 554; Brunet IV, col. 1088 (‘ouvrage important’); Lowndes p. 2037; Tooley 391.
207 207. RANKIN, Ian. The Impossible Dead. Orion. 2011.
8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper. A fine copy. First edition signed by Rankin on title-page.
208. REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Josephe The Roses. Taschen. 2007. £50
4to. Original cloth and wrapper; pp. 202, illustrated throughout in colour; slight sunning to edges, otherwise near fine.
£48
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Tashcen 25th anniversary edition. A reproduction of the the complete set of Redouté’s famous Roses.
209.REED, Lou. Rock’n’Roll Animal. Babylon Books, [c.1970s]. £98 8vo, original printed wrappers; illustrated in black and white; near fine. A rare collection of articles taken from Time Out.
‘THE MOST COMPLETE AND MOST IMPORTANT MONOGRAPH ON THE BIRDS OF AFRICA SO FAR WRITTEN’ 210. REICHENOW, Anton. Die Vögel Afrikas. Neudamm: J. Neumann, 1900-1905.
£4,500
4to (266 x 187mm), 6 parts in 4 volumes (including atlas). Contemporary German half pebble-grained green cloth over marbled boards, spines titled in gilt, green-speckled edges; pp. I: CIV, 706; II: XVI, [2 (section-title, verso blank)], 752; III: XXV, [1 (blank)], [2 (section-title, verso blank)], 880; IV (atlas): 50; portrait frontispiece retaining tissue guard in vol. I, publisher’s device on titles, 30 hand-coloured lithographic plates heightened with gum arabic by and after T.G. Meissner and Bruno Geisler, printed by O. Hollmann and Rau & Sohn, hand-coloured wood- engraved map and 3 folding hand-coloured lithographic maps, wood-engraved illustrations and diagrams in the text, some full-page; a little rubbed, a few marks, short, skilfully-reinforced short split on one joint, some light browning and occasional spotting or marking, 6 plates trimmed affecting imprint, nonethless a very good set; provenance: R. Friedländer & Sohn, Berlin (early bookseller’s tickets on upper pastedowns) — occasional early pencilled notes — [sale, Christie’s London, 7 June 2006, lot 46 (part)].
First and only edition. ‘The most complete and most important monograph on the Birds of Africa so far written’ (Wood), by the eminent German ornithologist Reichenow (1847-1941). Reichenow joined the staff of the Royal Zoological Collection in Berlin in 1874 and succeeded his father-
in-law Jean Cabanis as Head of the Ornithological Section in 1880. In 1893 he also succeeded Cabanis as editor of the German Ornithological Society, and was also editor of the Journal für Ornithologie from 1893 to 1921 and editor of the Ornithologische Monatsberichte (which he had founded) during the same period. In 1872-1873 Reichenow had visited the Gold Coast and Cameroon to pursue his ornithological researches, and as James P. Chapin noted in his obituary for The Auk, ‘from the time of his return to Europe until he left the Berlin Museum [in 1921] he was the leading authority on African birds’ (vol. 59, no. 3, p. 464). Die Vögel Afrikas is a comprehensive work, which did much to confirm his reputation as an expert upon the subject: ‘The introduction contains a survey of the history of the ornithological exploration of Africa [...], a survey of the literature [...], and [...] some general considerations on the avifauna of Africa, especially as regards zoogeographical conditions and the habits of the birds. The remainder of the work consists of a systematic treatment of the different forms of birds (about 2400), including descriptions of the families, genera, and species, and information about their geographical distribution and habits’ (Anker).
Anker 416; Nissen, IVB 769; Ripley and Scribner p. 238; SAB IV, p. 12; Wood, p. 532; Zimmer, p. 516.
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