North American Fauna No. 3; North American Fauna No. 5; Life Zones and Crop Zones of the United States. Bound together in 1 Vol. (With Botke Engraved Bookplate)

Edité par Government Printing Office, Washington 1890, 1891; 1898, 1890

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Three papers from the U.S Department of Agriculture by C. Hart Merriam. (1) North American Fauna No. 3. Results of a Biological Survey of the San Francisco Mountain Region and Desert of the Little Colorado, Arizona, 1890; (2) North American Fauna No. 5. Results of a Biological Reconnoissance of South Central Idaho,1891; Life Zones and Crop Zones of the United States, 1898. All bound in single volume without covers. Results within the 3 papers includes; Annotated list of mammals, with description of new Species; Annotated list of birds, with description of a New Owl; Annotated list of Reptiles and Batrachians, with Descriptions of new Species.** 8vo (225 x 138 mm). [1] Pp. vii (incl. title page), Photo. Illustrated Frontis (San Francisco Mountain from the Southwest), 136, 13 plates (2 in colour), 5 coloured maps (1 fold out, 4 double page folding), 2 figs. In text. Signed Compliments of inscription from Hon. J.M. Rusk, Secretary of Agriculture; [2] Pp. vii (Incl. Title Page), Colour Frontis. Dwarf Screech Owl, 127, 4 plates (incl. frontis). Figs. In text; [3] Pp. 79, Frontis. Double page folding map showing life zones of the United States. Maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Some wear to spine ends, and along spine edges. Small 15mm tear to cloth at top upper spine edge. Front endpaper torn along inner edge for just over half the page. Embossed Carnegie Institute stamps to top edge of title pages of North American Fauna No. 3 and North American Fauna No. 5 (no other stamps). Light toning to pages and page edges. some occasional odd foxing spots, otherwise in very good condition. Illustrations and maps bright looking.** The engraved bookplate is signed within the image Botke [Cornelis Botke?] Ex Libris, Harvey M. Hall, Carnegie Institution of Washington to front pastedown. H.M. Hall pen signature to top edge of front free endpaper. Signed presentation inscription from Hon.J.M. Rusk, Secretary of Agriculture [letter of transit page] of first paper (North American Fauna No. 3). ** Cornelis Botke (1887-1954) born in Leeuwarden, Holland. He studied at the School for Applied Design in Haarlem, Holland, and the Chicago Art Institute. Botke married Jessie Arms in April 1915 and moved to Carmel-by-the-Sea, California in 1919 and became influential figures in the local art colony. He was a member of the American Society of Etchers, the Society of American Graphic Artists, and the California Watercolor Society. He and his wife moved to Santa Paula, California in 1927. ** Harvey Monroe Hall (1874-1932) was an American botanist particularly noted for his taxonomic work in the Western United States. Hall went to work for ecologist Frederic Clements at the Carnegie Institution Division of Plant Sciences at Stanford University in 1919 in an effort to explore experimental methods of taxonomy. In 1928, Carnegie president John Merriam sent Hall to Europe for a year to study national parks. His report suggested the creation of natural reserves with national parks for the purpose of scientific study.…

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Titre
North American Fauna No. 3; North American Fauna No. 5; Life Zones and Crop Zones of the United States. Bound together in 1 Vol. (With Botke Engraved Bookplate)
Auteur
MERRIAM, C. Hart; Leonhard Stejneger
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Government Printing Office, Washington 1890, 1891; 1898
Année de publication
1890
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Very Good
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Hardcover
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