1936 Birds of America Hardcover Book

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Title: Birds of America
Publisher: Doubleday & Company Garden City, New York
Publication Date: 1936
10th Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrators/Artists: … Read more Title: Birds of America
Publisher: Doubleday & Company Garden City, New York
Publication Date: 1936
10th Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrators/Artists: Brasher, Horsfall, Thurston With 106 Plates in Full Color by Louis Agassiz Fuertes



From Dust Jacket Cover:

OVER 1000 PAGES Edited by T. GILBERT PEARSON President Emeritus of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF AUDUBON SOCIETIES

JOHN BURROUGHS EDWARD H. FORBUSH Massachusetts State Ornithologist

OVER 1000 PICTURES
Including 514 BIRD PORTRAITS IN NATURAL COLOR
By LOUIS AGASSIZ FUERTES
And 108 BIRD'S EGGS IN ACTUAL SIZE AND COLOR

EASY IDENTIFICATION CHARTS OF SIZES AND COLORS
COMPLETE INDEX
3 VOLUMES IN I

A COMPLETE and authoritative book on the birds of North America, in- cluding in a single volume all the famous FUERTES plates, has never heretofore been available to the general public.

This magnificent volume at last provides bird- lovers with such a book, and in it the three things that they most eagerly seek: a concise statement of the scientific data regarding every bird, a readable and illuminating account of its charac- teristics and "home-life," and, most important of all, ample and accurate illustrations in color.

The authenticity of text and picture is amply vouched for on the title page, where the most impressive names in ornithology appear as editors and artists. Originally prepared for the University Society, and included as three volumes of their famous Nature Lovers Library, every effort has been made to produce the most perfect possible book on birds.

In addition to hundreds of photographs and line draw- ings there are the 106 full page color plates by LOUIS AGASSIZ FUERTES and five pages of reproductions of eggs in their natural size and color-a most unusual feature. See less