WILD OXEN, SHEEP, & GOATS OF ALL LANDS; Living and Extinct
Rowland Ward. 1898 London, 1st edn, 318pp, 28 hand-colored plates, limited edition of 500 numbered copies signed by Rowland Ward, small folio. Very solid, clean copy, internally no foxing. Rebound in 3/4 brown leather with white linen boards, 5 hubs on spine. Period book plate, only minor flaw is browning from leather binding on edges of end papers. Item #001714
The most difficult of all the Rowland Ward published and Lydekker/ Bryden authored series of five volumes on the game animals of the world to get. Covers all the wild sheep of Europe, Asia and North America. In addition it covers the ibex of Asia and Europe as well as the wild Oxen of the Old and New World. Contains 28 magnificent hand-colored plates. The finest book ever produced for the international sheep hunter and rightly considered a crown jewel in his library. For some reason this book, which has the same limitation as the companion volume Bryden/Great and Small Game of Africa, is much harder to find then the other volumes.
Price: $3,500.00