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CHAPMAN, Frank M. Camps and Cruises of an Ornithologist. With 200 photographs from nature by the author.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1908. First edition. Tall 8vo., orig. dark green cloth with a pictorial decoration of a flamingo (orange) on the upper cover, xvi, 432pp. Profusely illustrated. Minor rubbing o/w a near fine copy of an attractive book.
The author states in his preface that "during the past seven years, with the assistance of artist and preparateur, I have devoted the nesting season of birds to collecting specimens and making field studies and photographs on which to base a series of what have been termed 'habitat groups' of North American birds for the American Museum of Natural History. These groups are designed to illustrate not only the habits and haunts of the birds shown, but also the country in which they live..."
$225.00
