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Waterton, Charles

Natural History Essays, with a Life of the Author by Norman Moore

1870

41,36 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canadá)

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Año de publicación
1870
Lugar de impresión
London. Frederick Warne and Co.
Autor
Waterton, Charles
Materia
Nature - General Ornithology
Idiomas
Inlgés

Descripción

8vo [19 x 15 cm]; viii, 631 pp, frontis (portrait of Waterton), plates from wood engravings, appendix, index. original green pictorial cloth with elaborate design in gilt and black, gilt title lettering on front cover and spine, all edges gilted, edges rubbed, spine ends a little frayed, hinge cracked but firm, old signature on endpaper but very good clean copy. The first edition was in three series published between 1838 and 1857. Wood 620: 'Famous series of essays on zoological, mainly ornithological, subjects'. There are also chapters on cannibalism, flower gardens and song birds, trees, birds' eggs, methods of preserving insects, museums, snakes, etc. Waterton is most famous for his work Wanderings in South America, published in 1825, and studied the natural history of South America, United States and the West Indies.