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[DALL, WILLIAM HEALEY.] Spencer Fullerton Baird: a biography. Including selections from his correspondence with Audubon, Agassiz, Dana, and others.
Philadelphia & London, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1915. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 461; 19 plates, 2 autograph letters signed from Baird on Smithsonian letterhead laid in, totaling 6 pp., one regarding the publication of some pamphlets, the other on specimens for his “catalogue of Middle American birds”; near fine in original blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine and upper cover, t.e.g. Baird was the second Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and the organizer and first commissioner of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, and the author of The Birds of North America (Philadelphia, 1860).
Offered for US$ 937.50 by: Rulon-Miller Books ABAA/ILAB - Book number: 15778