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NY: Macmillan Company; American Museum of Natural History. Very Good. 1936 verso. First Edition. Hardcover. 8X9" THICK oversized. VERY GOOD CONDITION..CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT..NICE PLATES; ; GOLD SPINE & COVER TITLES ON DARK GREEN STURDY CLOTH BINDING.. WHITE ENPAPERS.. ILLUST FROM PAINTINGS, PHOTOGRAPHS, MAPS OTHER DRAWINGS....***SINGLE BOOK #2 OF SET ONLY*** ; 641-1245pg+Plates pages; Color plates. Additional black & white photos*****LARGE, HEAVY ITEM, DOES NOT TRAVEL BY PRIORITY..I WILL WRAP VERY WELL FOR SAFE MEDIA RATE..*** .

NY: Macmillan Company; American Museum of Natural History. Very Good. 1936 verso. First Edition. Hardcover. 8X9" THICK oversized. VERY GOOD CONDITION..CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT..NICE PLATES; (about 10 text pages have 1" edgetears to very wide margins..else quite nice.. ; GOLD SPINE & COVER TITLES ON DARK GREEN STURDY CLOTH BINDING.. WHITE ENPAPERS.. ILLUST FROM PAINTINGS, PHOTOGRAPHS, MAPS OTHER DRAWINGS....***SINGLE BOOK #1 OF SET ONLY*** ; 640pg+38 Plates pages; Color plates. Additional black & white photos*****LARGE, HEAVY ITEM, DOES NOT TRAVEL BY PRIORITY..I WILL WRAP VERY WELL FOR SAFE MEDIA RATE..*** .

hardcover. illus., some in color. 2 vols. thick 4to, cloth; (spines lightly soiled). N.Y.: Macmillan, (1936).<br/><br/>

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Macmillan & The American Museum of Natural History, 1936. Book. Good. hardback. hardback, a two volume set, quarto, blue-green cloth lettered gilt, one or two very faint marks to the cloth, mild cockling to the top leading corner of the b&w plates at rear of volume one else good tightly bound copies with a clean and unmarked text, colour and black and white plates, xx + 640 & vii, 646-1245 pages of text. A heavy set, which will, if ordered from locations outside the United Kingdom result in a request for additional postage. Please enquire prior to placing an order..

New York, American Museum of Natural History 1936.. 4°. insg. XXII, 1245 S. m. zahlreichen s/w Textabb. u. 72, teilweise farb. Tafeln, OLnbde., Ecken leicht bestoßen.

Macmillan/American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition; Two volumes, illustrated from paintings by Francis L. Jacques, photographs, maps, and other drawings; Vol I, xxii, 640pp, 6 coloured plates, 1-38 b&w plates, 61 text figures; Vol II, viii, 641-1245pp, 10 coloured plates, b&w plates 39-72, 62-80 text figures. Index at front of both volumes, plates at back of both volumes. Original green cloth with gilt titling to spine and front covers. Comprehensive look at avian life in this area. A classic of its field, especially significant for its descriptions of the birds of the Antarctic seas. Geographic background, hydrology, field work, family and species accounts include penguins, albatrosses, petrels, storm petrels, shearwaters, tropic-birds, pelicans, boobies, cormorants, man-o-war birds, oystercatchers, ducks & geese, skuas and jaegers, gulls, terns, skimmers.A beautiful set of books… Read More

NY: The American Museum of Natural History, 1936. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear, else very good plus, clean and sound condition without dust jackets. 2vs., size: 8"x10.5", 1245pp., profusely illustrated.

New York: Macmillan and Co.. 1936. 1st ed., two volumes, quarto, original cloth boards with gilt titles and blind-stmaped decoration, b&w illus, colour plates, pp 1245. Two previous owner's bookplates. Near-fine condition. Extremely heavy, please inquire regarding postage. Plates from the paintings of Francis L Jacques 1st edition. Boards.

Macmillan / American Museum of Natural History, 1936 Two-volume set in slipcase. Illustrated from paintings by Francis L. Jaques, photos, maps & other drawings.Green cloth covers with gilt lettering, spines are faded. Green slipcase is edgeworn, but very sturdy. No markings. Beautiful illustrations, a very nice set. Heavy, oversized volumes, extra postage required.

New York, MacMillan Company-American Museum of Natural History. 1936. Original publisher's green cloth hardback, gilt title spine and frontcover, thick 4to: Vol. 1: xxij, 640pp., [54]pp., 6 page-large coloured plates, 38 plates with 71 bl.& wh. photographs, 1 map, 61 text-illustrations, figs, tables, lists illustrations. Vol. 2: viij, 641-1246pp., [56]pp., [10 page-large coloured plates, plates 39-72 with 69 bl.& wh. photographs, text-illustrations 62 - 80, lists illustrations, general bibliography, index. Very fine complete set.

The Macmillan Company, 1936-01-01. Hardcover. Good. . 2 volumes.

New York: Macmillan [and] the American Museum of Natural History, 1936. 4to, 2 volumes; 16 color plates after paintings, 72 plates after photographs, and illus., charts, and maps throughout text; very good in original green buckram gilt, lightly rubbed; generally very good. A comprehensive work based upon the ground-breaking ornithological expedition of Dr. Leonard E. Sanford and Frederick F. Brewster during 1912-1917 for the American Museum of Natural History.

Macmillan and the American Museum of Natural History, New York: 1936., 1936 Two volumes. pp. xx, 640; vii, 641-1245 + 72 monochrome numbered plates and 16 full page plates, in color, showing paintings by Francis L. Jaques. Includes also 80 text illustrations. Large 8vo. Original full cloth bindings. A very nice set of an important work. Especially significant for its descriptions of the birds of the Antarctic seas. SCARCE. NH7 Language: eng. Hardcover. Very Good.

The Macmillan Company, 1936. First edition, first printing. Spines a little dull, still near fine.. Green cloth, no dust jackets.

Hardcover. American Museum of Natural History, NY 1936. Lge. 4to, 2 vols. Pp xx (2) 640 (&) vii, 641-1245pp, 16 col. plts, 72 photo plates, text ills. Orig. green gilt cloth, pristine condition. Limited to 1200 numbered copies. Antarctic birds. The author spent two years on South Georgia also collecting and cataloguing ornithological specimens for the Natural history museum while Brewster and Sanford spent 5 years in the southern hemisphere.

New York: Macmillan 1936. (4to, cloth) Very good plus. 2 vols: (1245p in toto), illus., maps. Numerous Text Figures. 16 colour full page plates of paintings by Francis L. Jaques. 72 b / w photographic plates..

1936. N.Y., Macmillan Company, (1936). 4to. 2 orig. full cloth. XX,1245 pp., 16 colourplates a. 72 in b/w (by Francis L. Jaques). Light wear along edges, otherwise fine. Bookplate of Lorenz Ferdinand.