NATURE LOVERS LIBRARY, Volume 1: BIRDS OF AMERICA
by T. Gilbert Pearson, Editor-in-Chief, National Association of Audubon Societies 1917, First Edition.
272 pages. 8 x 11” approx.
Profusely illustrated with b/w photos, b/w plates, and 39 full-page color plates. Definitely Audubon quality works of art; Beautiful full-page color illustrations!
From the Author: “The actual and urgent need for this book is apparent to the large and steadily increasing number of persons who are intelligently interested in American ornithology.”
The Orders of Diving Birds (grebes, loons, auks, murres, puffins), Long-Winged Swimmers (skuas, jaegers, gulls, terns, skimmers), Tube-Nosed Swimmers (albatrosses, fulmars, shearwaters), Totipalmated Swimmers (tropic birds, gannets, darters, cormorants, pelicans, man-o’-war birds), Lamellirostral Swimmers (mergansers, ducks, geese, swans), Lamellirostral Grallatores (flamingoes), and the Order of Herons, Storks, Ibises, Etc, and the Order of Marsh-Dwellers (cranes, courlans, rails, gallinules, coots), AND the Order of Shore Birds (phalaropes, avocets, stilts, snipes, sandpipers, plovers, surf-birds, turnstones, oyster-catchers).
Green cloth binding with minor scuffing consistent with age, interior pages are crisp & off-white with occasional foxing & smudges. Very Good Condition. $75
