A Field Guide To The Birds

by Roger Tory Peterson Publisher : Houghton Mifflin & Company Year : 1947 Edition : Second Printing : First Pages : 290 Condition : Very Good Binding : Hardcover Price : $89.95

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Houghton Mifflin & Company, Boston, 1947. Revised and enlarged second Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Very good condition, full green cloth with titles somewhat faded. Revised Edition. 7-1/4" x 4-1/2". "Giving Field marks of all Species Found East of the Rockies". Second revised and enlarged edition. Sponsored by the National Audubon Society. Front endpapers are decorated with b/w illustrations of roadside silhouettes of birds. Rear endpapers are decorated with b/w illustrations of flight silhouettes. Former owner's name. 1,000 illustrations, 500 in full color. Wonderful antique edition of nature classic and a great gift for any bird lover. Roger Tory Peterson (August 28, 1908 ? July 28, 1996), was an American naturalist, ornithologist, artist, and educator, and held to be one of the founding inspirations for the 20th century environmental movement. Peterson was born in Jamestown, New York. After graduating from high school? Peterson moved to New York City? where he attended the Art Students League (1927-1928) and the National Academy of Design (1929-1931). He then taught science and art at the Rivers School in Brookline, Massachusetts. In 1934 he published his seminal Guide to the Birds, the first modern field guide, which sold out its first printing of 2?000 copies in one week, and subsequently went through 5 editions. He co-wrote Wild America with James Fisher, and edited or wrote many of the volumes in the Peterson Field Guide series on topics ranging from rocks and minerals to beetles to reptiles. He developed the Peterson Identification System, and is known for the clarity of both his illustrations of field guides and his delineation of relevant field marks. In this century, no one has done more to promote an interest in living creatures than Roger Tory Peterson, the inventor of the modern field guide. Peterson received every major American award for natural science, ornithology, and conservation, as well as numerous honorary medals, diplomas, and citations, including the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom. He died in 1996 at his home in Old Lyme, Connecticut. The Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History in Jamestown, New York is named in his honor. 290 pages.



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