Zoology from the library of Tor Morisse (9).

Lot containing books on zoology and natural exploration from the library of illustrator Tor Morisse: WALLACE. The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature. Third Edition. London and New York, 1872 (worn publisher's decorated cloth, front fly leaf loose); MACGILLIVRAY. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnaeus... Second Edition. Edinburgh, 1834 (worn publisher's decorated cloth, lacks front fly leaf); GOSSE.The Aquarium: An Unveiling of the Wonders of the Deep Sea. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. London, 1856 (publisher's cloth, title and following leaf loose, illustrated with woodcuts and tipped-on color plates); MAUNDER. The Treasury of Natural History: or, A Popular Dictionary of Animated Nature.Fourth Edition. London, 1854 (worn calf); ASHTON. Curious Creatures in Zoology. London, 1890 (worn and stained publisher's calfspine, spine torn at head, printed in 210 numbered copies, of which this is number 91); JARDINE (ed.). The Naturalist's Library. Vol. I. Ornithology. Birds of Great Britain and Ireland. -Part 1. Edinburgh, no year - Vol. VII-VIII. Birds of Western Africa. Edinburgh, 1837. - Vol. X. Birds of Great Britain and Ireland. Part II. Incessors. Edinburgh, 1839 (worn cloth, vols. VII and X in newer bindings, each illustrated with colored plates).

9 volumes in all. Not collated in detail.

Provenance: Tor Morisse (1947-2017), Norwegian illustrator, children's writer and comics creator. Morisse, who lived and worked in Sweden, illustrated more than 300 books, especially children's books, by authors including Lennart Hellsing, Hans Pettersson, Bjørn Rønningen and Frid Ingulstad. His first drawings were published in Kamratposten in the late 70s. In 1986. he started his own publishing house. In 2002, he received the Golden Pen of "Publicistklubben".