Search Results: Naturalist Travels from Z & Z Books

New York: Random House, Inc., 1991. 238 pages. Map ends. Mattheissen describes three expeditions, 1978-1986: A wildlife survey, with Gilbert Boese, of Senegal, Gambia and the Ivory Coast; search for the Congo peacock in Zaire; and, with David Western, determining the status of the forest elephant in the Congo Basin.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. New/New.

Cleveland: Bird Research Foundation, 1943. 482pp. photos, ills., color frontis and 11 color plates, map ends. The expedition of five ornithologists to secure data on 60 species of boreal birds breeding in the area. Annotated list of birds, index. DJ with a few light chips and rips at edges, now in a protective mylar jacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Brooks, A.; Kalmbach, E., Murie, O.. 4to..

Boston: David R. Godine, Pub, 2003. Photos, maps, 368 pages. The story of Robert Cushman Murphy's 1912 trip to the Antarctic aboard one of the last whaling ships out of New Bedford, taking photographs and collecting specimens for the American Museum of Natural History. His journals were later published as the popular "A Logbook for Grace". Eleanor Mathews, Murphy's granddaughter, has gone back to these diaries, with new photographs and additional information, to expand and to illuminate the original story.. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New.

New York: Howell Book House, 1999. Color photos, ills., 182pp. Mint review copy.. Hard Cover. As New.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011. Color photos, bibliography, 258 pages. Remainder mark.. Hard Cover. New/New.

Cleveland, OH: The Bird Research Foundation, 1951. Gold-stamped green cloth cover. Light wear top and bottom of spine but no rips or fraying. 20 color plates by A. Brooks, G. M. Sutton, R. T. Peterson, T. Short. illustrations, photos, map, index, 740 pages, "A naturalist's adventures with the nesting birds on the deserts, grasslands, foothills and mountains of southeastern Arizona". With appendix listing the nesting birds of southeastern AZ.. . Cloth. Very Good. Illus. by Brooks, A.; Sutton, G.M.; Peterson, R.T.; Shortt, T. (ills.). 4to.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1936. Cover shows light wear. Color plates and frontis, map, 252 pages. A day-by-day account of the Chicago Field Museum/Daily News Ethiopian Expedition, for which Fuertes was the museum staff artist. Describes field work, birds, animals and local human residents encountered, and Fuertes' techiniques for painting and preparing study skins in the field. 15 color plates, painted from life in the field, of birds and mammals.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Fuertes, L.A. (illustrator). 4to..

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1936. Dust jackets has chips and tears, but basically all present, now in a protective Brodart cover. The area along cover inside hinges has some staining/browning from binders glue, as is often the case. Actually, a presentable, better than usual copy, Color plates and frontis, map, 252 pages. A day-by-day account of the Chicago Field Museum/Daily News Ethiopian Expedition, for which Fuertes was the museum staff artist. Describes field work, birds, animals and local human residents encountered, and Fuertes' techiniques for painting and preparing study skins in the field. 15 color plates, painted from life in the field, of birds and mammals.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Fuertes, L.A. (illustrator). 4to..

New York: Dover Publications, 1960. With Zoological and Other Notes by Elliott Coues. In 2 volumes, 574pp and 566pp; ills., photos. Reproduces the Scribner's 1897 edition. Includes Audubon's Missouri River journals, Labrador and European journals, and "Episodes" of American frontier life from Birds of America. Index. Light edgewear along sides of spine, light scuffing, inside clean and tight. Spine has some browning.. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo..

New York: Allen Lane, 1973. Photos, illustrations, references, index, 436 pages. Thorough study of the oasis in the Jordanian desert and wildlife of the area, with an emphasis on desert adaptation. History, vegetation, jerboas and other rodents, gazelles, predators; wildfowl, breeding birds and migrations; Bedouin people. Appendices on research projects and suggestions; physical data on invertebrates, fish, amphibia, reptiles; birds ringed, expeditions. . First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Illus. by Busby, John (illustrator); Hosking, Eric (photographer).

Berkeley: Univ of California Press, 2003. Photos, ills., biblio, index. 311 pp. List $50.00.. Hardcover. As New/As New.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1980. b&w and color photos, maps, 150 pages. Color plate illustrations of 15 species. Parmalee, artist and ornithologist at the Univ. of Minnesota, records his field observations during 6 weeks on Bird Island in the South Georgia group. Albatross, penguins, petrels, skuas, pintails, pipits, shags and fur seals were of the party.. Cloth. New/New.

New York: Hippocrene Books, 1986. Ills., map, index, 247-511pp. Continuation of its companion, To The Petchora. The two reprint volumes together, To the Petchora Valley & The Yenesei, form the whole of The Birds of Siberia, Seebohm's 1901 classic.. Paperback. Very Good.

London: John Murray, 1901. Fold-out map, many ills., TEG, 512pp. Top of spine frayed, corner wear. White spot where library number was removed on spine. Inside has no ex-library evidence, no stamps, pockets, bookplates, etc. Nice color illustration of two birds on cover. Inside is tight, hinges strong, and, except for light foxing on endpapers, clean.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good.

New York, NY: Crown Publishers (Crescent Books), 1987. 320pp.color and b&w plates. 180 maps, most reproduced in full color, with 90 supplementary illustrations, document the history of the mapping of America and New World exploration. Includes a brief history of cartography and the produciton of old maps, and the exploration of North America. Index of plates, biographical notes on cartographers.. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 4to..

New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Foreword by Stephen J. Gould. Extracted from the recent Cambridge edition of 'The Correspondence of Charles Darwin', covers Darwin's years at Edinburgh University through the Beagle voyage and the publication of the 'Origin of the Species'. Notes, Biographical register or correspondents and persons mentioned, Wedgewood & Darwin family trees on end papers. Bibliography, index.. Cloth. As New/As New. 8vo..

Addison Wesley, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New.

Sierra Club & Ballantine Books Two-volume set: Discovery / Prospect. In a nice SLIPCASE that is usually missing. Glossy color photos, both volumes have 160 pages.. Paperback. Very Good.

New York: William Morrow & Co., 1968. 59 photos and more than 60 line drawings, glossary, appendices, 338 pages.. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1927. 464pp. photos, color frontis. Beebe's 1923 expedition to the Galapagos Archipelago and other southern ports, collecting specimens and live animals and making photographs and paintings for the New York Zoological Society. Gold-stamped green cloth binding, faded on spine; otherwise clean and bright.. Cloth. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Cooper, I.; Tee-Van, J. (ill.). 8vo..