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Dark Trails: Adventures of a Naturalist by Cherrie, George K - 1930
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NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed and soiled, owner bookplate on . front pastedown, rear hinge cracked and tender, dampstaining to all edges.. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Foreword by Kermit Roosevelt. Navy cloth with titles stamped in gilt on front boards and spine. Photographically illustrated endpapers. xvi, 322 pp. Folding map of South America at rear. Many photos from the author's trips on various expeditions to Central and South America and Asia. Cherrie was one of the few larger-than-life adventurers that could keep pace with Theodore Roosevelt and indeed, was part of the famous 1913-14 Rondon-Roosevelt Expedition in Brazil to map the River of Doubt. Cherrie was born in Iowa in 1865, worked in textile mills at age 12, worked his way through a college degree in mechanical engineering, worked at an electric light plant, and then traveled and collected natural history specimens, from insects to big game, for various museums for the remainder of his long life. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Milkweed Butterflies: Their Cladistics and Biology: Being an Account of the Natural History of the Danainae, a Subfamily of the Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae
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Paris: Albert Whitman & Company. Very Good; Boards lightly worn, penciled notes on front free endpapers.. 1864-66. Hardcover. Four bound volumes of the Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale Zoologique D'Acclimatation, each bound in green cloth with red leather spine labels with titles stamped in gilt. Two of the volumes bear the bookplate of Lady Dorothy Nevill (name covered over with black crayon). Text in French. A few illustrations in each volume. First Volume: 1864. lxviii, 1-500, 709-804 pp. Includes articles about alpacas, fish eggs, the Siamese Crested Fireback, silkworms, and aquaculture. Second Volume: 1865. lxxix, 768 pp. Includes articles on horsemeat production, oyster farming, Arabian horses, gourami fish, pine trees, and Chinese-Merino sheep hybrids. Third Volume: 1865. lxxix, 608 pp. Includes articles on introducing beef cattle in the Rio de la Plata region, pheasants, cochineal bugs, and currasows. Fourth Volume: 1866. lxxx, 61-716 pp. Includes several articles about a…
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Paris: Albert Whitman & Company. Very Good; Boards lightly worn, penciled notes on front free endpapers.. 1864-66. Hardcover. Four bound volumes of the Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale Zoologique D'Acclimatation, each bound in green cloth with red leather spine labels with titles stamped in gilt. Two of the volumes bear the bookplate of Lady Dorothy Nevill (name covered over with black crayon). Text in French. A few illustrations in each volume. First Volume: 1864. lxviii, 1-500, 709-804 pp. Includes articles about alpacas, fish eggs, the Siamese Crested Fireback, silkworms, and aquaculture. Second Volume: 1865. lxxix, 768 pp. Includes articles on horsemeat production, oyster farming, Arabian horses, gourami fish, pine trees, and Chinese-Merino sheep hybrids. Third Volume: 1865. lxxix, 608 pp. Includes articles on introducing beef cattle in the Rio de la Plata region, pheasants, cochineal bugs, and currasows. Fourth Volume: 1866. lxxx, 61-716 pp. Includes several articles about a…
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