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ISBN 13 : 9781331413974
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (139 download)
Book Synopsis Birds and Nature, in Natural Colors, Vol. 1 of 5 by :
Download or read book Birds and Nature, in Natural Colors, Vol. 1 of 5 written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Birds and Nature, in Natural Colors, Vol. 1 of 5: A New Edition, Page Plates of Forty-Eight Common Birds by Color Photography, a Guide in the Study of Birds and Their Habits The first of the 82 parts of the original edition of Birds and Nature was published January, 1897, and at once took first place among the works on Nature Study. Volume I reached a sale of more than fifty thousand copies. In December, 1904, 16 volumes with 648 color plates had appeared and twenty-five thousand complete sets sold. The text plates were destroyed and the work has been out of print for several years. So this is not a revised edition, but a new edition, by writers of authority on birds, their foods, habits, their economic value; also the little good and much harm the very few birds do. The color plates are the best that can be made; they were awarded the Grand Prize at the Paris Exposition in 1900 and the Gold Medal at the Worlds Fair, St. Louis, 1904. The 240 plates in Birds and Nature, together with 408 others of birds, animals, plants and flowers, insects, shells, minerals, fish, etc., cost over sixty thousand dollars ($60,000), and they are likely to remain for at least another 17 years the largest and best collection of color plates of Natural History in the world. The color plates are so natural as to enable one to identify birds at a glance. No effort of expense or pains has been spared to achieve the highest possible excellence in this work. It is the fruit of twenty years of labor. While 648 plates were used in the first edition of 16 volumes, the publisher believes that five volumes with the best 240 plates of the 240 most common birds of the United States and Canada will meet with more favor, and it is not very likely that 240 such exquisite color plates will appear in a similar work for a good many years to come. Many features commend this edition; the type, print and paper are good, right size of page and the volumes of 192 pages of text and 48 pages of color plates to each volume make books that are easy to handle and a joy to possess. Not since Audubon's Birds of America, published in 1830-39, eighty-three years ago, has there been published a work on Ornithology to at all compare with Birds and Nature, which has stood and remains a monument to the study of Birds and the debt we owe them. Audubon's Birds of America have sold as high as $3,000. He used the gun and drawing material. Birds and Nature used the color-photograph process - photographing each color - made plates of each color and printed each color separately so as to blend and make all colors true to life. The color plates are not reproduced from paintings, but from the real birds in nature - hence the exact colors. In addition to the 240 birds illustrated in colors, 160 others are described, making 400 of the best known and most important birds of the United States and Canada. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
