Artist and Naturalist in Ethiopia
by Fuertes, Louis Agassiz; Osgood, Wilfred Hudson
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/No Jacket
- Seller
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1936. 249pp/illus. Bright gilt illustration of a small bird to front cover. Clean and bright throughout. Without dustjacket. Quite a solid copy. 16 Illustrations in full color, full page throughout painted from life by Louis Agassiz Fuertes and reproduced in this volume splendidly. The illustrations and text from the rare 1926-1927 Field Museum Zoological Expedition to Ethiopia with the superb coloured plates by Fuertes. Spine edges lightly frayed. Beautiful and clean.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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- Bookseller
- DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006452
- Title
- Artist and Naturalist in Ethiopia
- Author
- Fuertes, Louis Agassiz; Osgood, Wilfred Hudson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- Wildlife Birds Africa Ethiopia
- Bookseller catalogs
- Africa;
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About DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books
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