HAMERTON, PHILIP GILBERT

Chapters on Animals

Boston, Roberts Brothers. 1877. Tooled Faux Leather, 7" x 5". 253 pages; 20 b&w illustrations by J. Veyrassat and Karl Bodmer, including frontispiece with tissue guard. Dogs, cats, horses, pigs, wolves, wild boar, cows, birds and more. An interesting dialogue, a mix of science, compassion and anecdote. The boards are attractively tooled with decoration and gilt titles. Text and illustrations are clean throughout; rear joint has been repaired; extremeties of the spine are worn; backstrip is brittle. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 005020

Catalogue: Animals & Birds

Keywords: Hamerton Animals Dogs Cats Horses Pigs Wild Boars Wolves Birds Goats Kids Cows Bulls Literature & Literary

MATTHIESSEN, PETER AND MARY FRANK

African Silences

New York, Random House. 1991, First American Edition. (ISBN: 0-679-40021-4). quarter-cloth and paper boards, 8vo. 225 pages. Author's account of The West Africa Wildlife Survey of 1978 and the Congo Basin Forest Elephant Survey of 1986. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 000787

Catalogue: Animals & Birds

Keywords: Matthiesen Africa 0679400214

WARD, GEOFFREY C. WITH DIANE RAINES WARD

Tiger-Wallahs: Encounters with the Men Who Tried to Save the Greatest of the Great Cats

New York, HarperCollins Publishers (harper collins). 1993, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-06-016795-5). quarter-cloth and paper boards, 4to. 174 pages. Dozens of contemporary color photographs and earlier black-and-whites. An overview of the effort to conserve the tiger population and the effort's leading individuals, the Tiger-Wallahs. The author has been a prominent screenwriter for PBS as well as a book author. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 000771

Catalogue: Animals & Birds

Keywords: Tigers Wildlife Conservation India Ranthambhore Foundation 0060167955