SEEBOHM, Henry (1832-1895)

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Los 98 | SEEBOHM, Henry (1832-1895)
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SEEBOHM, Henry (1832-1895)
A Monograph of the Turdidae or Family of Thrushes ... edited and completed ... by R. Bowdler Sharpe. London: Henry Sotheran, [1898-]1902.
Finely-illustrated and highly-influential ornithological work, notably inspiring Ernst Mayr’s work on the biological species concept which became foundational in evolutionary biology. Seebohm’s monograph contains in-depth accounts of the family of thrushes, and its use of trinomial nomenclature and recognition of geographic reflects an early understanding of speciation. This in turn led Ernst Mayr to define a species as a group of actually or potentially interbreeding natural populations that are reproductively isolated from other such groups. In other words, members of the same species can mate and produce fertile offspring, but they are separated by reproductive barriers from other species, preventing gene flow between them. In this way, species integrity is maintained by genetic exchange internally and genetic discontinuity externally. The hand-coloured plates by J.G. Keulemans are of extremely high quality. Although most of the plates to this 13-part monograph were complete at the time of Seebohm's death on 26 November, 1895, his manuscript only covered the genus Geocichla. The remaining three quarters of the work on the genera Turdus, Merula and Mimocichla was undertaken by Sharpe whose initials appear at the foot of each article he contributed. New plates were also needed to bring it up to date. Anker 458; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.141, noting that 120 plates were published by the end of 1900; Nissen IVB 852; Wood p. 561; Zimmer p. 570 'the hand-coloured plates by Keulemans are excellent'.

13 parts bound in 2 volumes, folio (377 x 272mm). 149 hand-coloured lithographic plates by and after J. G. Keulemans, printed by Hanhart, some Mintern Brothers or Judd and Co., photogravure portrait of Seebohm (occasional faint offsetting, plate CXL with faint marginal finger-soiling, otherwise a very clean copy). Slightly later green half morocco by Sotheran, top edges gilt, with all of the original part-wrappers bound in at end of vol. 2 (just a hint of fading to spines, otherwise near fine, the original wrappers with occasional light soiling).
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