WITH NATURE AND A CAMERA: BEING THE ADVENTURES AND OBSERVATIONS OF A FIELD NATURALIST AND AN ANIMAL PHOTOGRAPHER
by Kearton, Richard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good-
- Seller
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Princeton, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1898. Illustrated by 180 pictures from photographs by Cherry Kearton. 368 pp. Four pages of advertisements at conclusion of text. Olive cloth covers with gilt lettering on front and spine, and image of author rappeling down cliff in gilt on front. Cover corners are bumped and rubbed, edges rubbed, significant rubbing/scuffing on back cover, fading to cover edges. Spine is faded from sun exposure, stains on bottom of spine, spine ends are bent. Gilt top page edge. Hinges broken. Cocked spine. Endpapers have foxing/mold and are browning. Interior pages have some light foxing and some stains to edges. Book in Good- condition.. Cloth. Good-. Illus. by Photographs by Cherry Kearton. Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 1/2". Nature.
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- Bookseller
- Bee Creek Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006473
- Title
- WITH NATURE AND A CAMERA: BEING THE ADVENTURES AND OBSERVATIONS OF A FIELD NATURALIST AND AN ANIMAL PHOTOGRAPHER
- Author
- Kearton, Richard
- Illustrator
- Photographs by Cherry Kearton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Publisher
- Cassell and Company, Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1898
- Keywords
- Nature, Photography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History; Photography;
- Size
- Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 1/2"
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