Allan gordon cameron (5 Ergebnisse)

HARDCOVER. Hardcover edition. reprint edition, 341pp, octavo in glossy boards. From the library of Dale W. Rice, famed writer/researcher/collector of natural history, and founder of the Dale W. Rice Memorial Library in Seattle, WA. light spot of printing glue top and bottom page edges, tight binding, Dale Rice bookplate, clean throughout, Very Good-.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, i-xvii, 248 pp, frontispiece and 7 photographic plates, 8 illustrations in the text including drawings of stag's heads and maps. Original salmon cloth with a stag's head design on the front board. Spine faded as usual with this title, some spotting to the closed edges and a little foxing on the half title page but a good clean copy.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket As Issued. Facsimile. Clean hardback tightly bound in pictorial covers in slipcase, minor foxing on page edges, no inscriptions. xviii + 248 pages, illustrations on plates and in the text, appendices.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 284 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1923). 1923 1st edition. Small 8vo (127 x 190mm). Ppxviii, 248. B/w photograph plates and illustrations. Red cloth, gilt antlers motif to upper board, spine titled in gilt. Cloth used and faded. Inscription to front end-paper, annotations. Good. Lacks dust-wrapper. "Based on the studies made by [the author] on the island of Jura in the twenty years before the First World War and it remains today one of the finest textbooks ever written both on deer stalking and the natural history of red deer." Chapters include:- The old deer-stalking and the new; The hill stag and the hill stalk; A naturalist in the deer forest; Calving, birth-rate, death-rate, dimensions, weights, and coloration of hill deer; Habits of hill deer; Duration of life, age marks, and causes of natural death in hill deer; Personal stalking - method and equipment, the search, tactics of approach, the approach, the kill, wood stalking; Antlers - I. Growth and shedding, colour, fixity of type, and value to the stag; Antlers - II. Form and development of antlers in hill deer; Antlers - III. Summing and measurements of antlers in hill deer; Antlers - IV. Antlers in the deer forest: first principles, single season tenancy, fencing in deer forests, changes of blood, weather and antlers, conditions of life; Reform in the deer-forest - I. A plea for the wild stag; Reform in the deer-forest - II. The return of the woods, the return of the cattle, and the return of the wild stag; Possible ideals - the ideal forest, basic conditions of hill-stalking as a wild sport; Deer forests and land reform, the battle for the mountains. Appendix I. Distribution of the red deer at the beginning of the twentieth century; Appendix II. Do red deer admit of racial distinction? .…