LYDEKKER, RICHARD | Wild Oxen, Sheep & Goats of All Lands Living and Extinct. London: Rowland Ward, Limited, 1898

LYDEKKER, RICHARD

Wild Oxen, Sheep & Goats of All Lands Living and Extinct. London: Rowland Ward, Limited, 1898

4to. 28 hand-colored plates after J. Smit (numbered I-XVII, XVIIa, XVIII-XXVII); erratum and corrigenda slips. Publisher's green cloth gilt. 

First edition, 138 of 500 numbered copies, signed by the publisher

A classic and major illustrated work on the wild sheep of the world.

Lydekker, the celebrated English naturalist, authored numerous works on both exotic and domesticated big game and is particularly noted for his contributions on the natural history of India and Indonesia.

REFERENCE:

Phillips 241; Heller 1:219; Nissen ZBI 2604 & 2614

PROVENANCE:

Frederick du Cane Godman (bookplate)