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Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Softcover. Gray paper covers with black lettering. Dated 1940 on the front cover. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History Volume LXXVII, Art. VII, pages 341-380. Black and white photo plates and a fold-out map at back of book. GOod condition. Some toning and rubbing around the edges of the covers. 1.00 written in pencil at the head of the front cover. No other marks or writing to be found. Pages clean and bright. Overall good condition. This book is from the collection of Thomas Lovejoy. Dr. Lovejoy was an influential ecologist, field biologist, and activist; former head of the Amazon Biodiversity Center, World Wildlife Fund, and advisor to the United Nations and Smithsonian Institution. He is credited with introducing the term 'biological diversity' to the mainstream environmental movement. In addition, he was a passionate collector of books on the natural world. He died in 2021 and we are very excited to present a selection of his books. Please browse the entire catalogue here on ABE or contact us for instructions on how to get to it. Thomas Lovejoy's name is not in this book. It will come with a card stating provenance, with a picture of Lovejoy.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very good condition. This expedition went to the north slope of the Snow Mountains, the area from Mt. Wilhemina to the Idenburg River, which had not been investigated. Bulletin of The American Museum of Natural History. Vol. LXXIX, Art. III, pp. 197-288. 1 b&w folding map and 35 b&w photo plates at end of text. Grey mottled paper wrapper w/ black printing on cover.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Illustrated, slim quarto, pp (70), upper corners very slightly bruised, otherwise very clean internally, paperback, covers very slightly worn. [Originally a presentation copy from the author to the botanist A.H.G. Alston, but this crossed out and now with the signature of another British Museum botanist Eric Groves.]. Signed by Author.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Sunned on spine which is also rubbed through but holding solid. Stains on front cover. 35 BW plates, fold out map, unmarked interior. Book.