The Indian Ducks and Their Alies. With 30 Coloured Plates by H. Gronvold, G.E. Lodge, and J.G. Keulemans. Edition Limited To 1200 Copies.

The Indian Ducks and Their Alies. With 30 Coloured Plates by H. Gronvold, G.E. Lodge, and J.G. Keulemans. Edition Limited To 1200 Copies.

Author: Baker, E.C. Stuart (1864 – 16 April 1944)

4to.(7" x 10.5")1908. Baker, E.C. Stuart. Bombay. The Bombay Natural History Society. Edition Limited to 1200 Copies. Quarter dark green leather with corners, single fancy blindstamp rule to all leather edges, over green cloth boards. Spine with five raised bands, gilt title to second compartment, gilt author to third, gilt year at foot, single gilt rule to head and foot of spine. Top edge gilt, others deckled, marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate to front pastedown with prior owner's initials, D.B.I in blue ink above. Foxing, minimal spotting throughout, affecting only the edges of plates if at all. Edgewear, upper corners with small loss to tips, spine sun-faded to an attractive brown. Overall, a beautiful book. Illustrated with 30 colored lithographed plates. Attestation page states" (This Edition is limited to 1200 Copies, after which the Lithographs will be erased.)

From Wiki: Edward Charles Stuart Baker CIE OBE FZS FLS (1864 – 16 April 1944) was a British ornithologist and police officer. He catalogued the birds of India and produced the second edition of the Fauna of British India which included the introduction of trinomial nomenclature. His books included The Indian Ducks and their Allies (1908), Game Birds of India and Ceylon (1921), The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Birds. (1922; eight volumes), Mishmi Man-eater (1928), The Nidification of the Birds of the Indian Empire (1932), and Cuckoo Problems (1942; the cuckoo was his chief interest within ornithology). He made a comprehensive collection of nearly 50,000 Indian birds' eggs, part of which he donated to the Natural History Museum, where he spent a lot of time working on the egg collections from India and Thailand. His eight-volume contribution to The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma series became the standard reference work on the subject. Part of the collection, about 152 specimens were sold to the private museum of the Tzar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria. He also served on government advisory committees on the protection of birds and was from 1913 to 1936 honorary secretary and treasurer of the British Ornithologists' Union. Apart from specimens that he collected or received from others both of eggs and birds, Baker also maintained a small menagerie for a time when he was posted in the North Cachar district. The animals in his collection included civets, bears, deer and crested serpent eagles, Amur falcons, falconets and woodpeckers.

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