LIVES OF GAME ANIMALS : An Account of Those Land Animals in America, North of the Mexican Border, Which Are Considered Game..., New York, 1929, 4 volumes in 8, pp. 640,746,780 & 949. Cloth; 50 maps & 1500 illustrations by the author.
A very good set of a title, not often found complete. Vol.I: Cats, Wolves, & Foxes; Vol.II: Bears, Racoons, Badger, & Weasels; Vol. III: Deer, Antelope, Buffalo, Sheep, & Peccary; Vol VI: Squirrels, Rabbits, Armadillo, & Opossum.
THE AMERICAN WOODCOCK, Philohela minor (Gmelin) Boston, 1936. 169 - 391 p., plates, stiff wraps. ( Boston Society of Natural History. Memoirs, v. 9, no. 2)
A nice clean copy of this sought-after work, signed by the author. A thorough natural history of a popular game species, with a great bibliography.
THE PASSENGER PIGEON, Its Natural History and Extinction Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1955. xiii, 424p., illus., maps.
A great resource for both historical and scientific data on a species that went from an estimated 3 - 5 billion birds at the time of America's discovery to extinction by 1914.
DRAGON LIZARDS OF KOMODO: An Expedition to the Lost World of the Dutch East Indies. New York, 1927. 221p., illus.
"The thrilling account of an expedition to the Isle of Komodo in search of gigantic carnivorous lizards, the descendants of a species existing in Eocene times, more than sixty million years ago."
A tight copy of a scarce and sought-after title.