USED AND RARE BOOKS ON LOUIS AGASSIZ FUERTES



ABYSSINIAN BIRDS AND MAMMALSby Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1930. 32 loose color plates by Fuertes in an album of gray hardboards, cloth spine, slipcased. Format: 10 ¼” x 12”. Condition: Album spine a bit worn, but otherwise very good. Slipcase worn, piece missing from bottom edge.

$260.00
AMERICAN WILDLIFE PAINTINGby Martina R. Norelli. Watson – Guptill, 1975. 1st printing. Covers Fuertes, Audubon, Heade, Wilson, Thayer, and Catesby. Good text and many illustrations. Brown cloth hardcover, D.J. Format: 9 ¼” x 12 ¼”. 224 pp. Condition: Fine.

$25.00
ARTIST AND NATURALIST IN ETHIOPIAby Louis Agassiz Fuertes and Wilfred H. Osgood. Doubleday, 1936. Hardback black cloth with gilt stamped spine and gilt bird stamped on cover. 16 color plates. Format: 8” x 10 ¼”. 249 pp. Condition: Very good.

$200.00
BIRD PORTRAITS IN COLORby Thomas S. Roberts. Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1960. 295 North American species, 92 color plates by six top bird painters. Gray-brown cloth hardcover, D.J. Format: 8 ¾” x 11”. Unpaginated. Condition: D.J. tattered, book is fine.

$20.00
BIRD PORTRAITS IN COLORby Thomas S. Roberts. Univ. of Minnesota, 1934. 295 species covered. Illustrated by Allan Brooks, G. M. Sutton, Walter A. Weber, F. L. Jaques, Walter J. Breckenridge, and L. A. Fuertes. Tan cloth hardcover, D.J. Format: 8 ¾” x 11”. Unpaginated. Condition: Fine +.

$50.00
BIRDS OF AMERICAedit. T. Gilbert Pearson. Illustrated by R. L. Brasher, R. B. Horsfall, H. Thurston, L. A. Fuertes. Garden City, 1940. Green cloth hardcover, no D.J. Format: 8 ½” x 11 ¼”. 289 pp. Condition: Very good +.

$20.00
BIRDS OF NEW MEXICOby Florence Merriam Bailey. New Mexico Dept of Fish & Game, 1928. Illustrated by Allan Brooks and Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Limited edition #73 of 350 copies signed by the author. Full black leather, gilt stamped titles, D.J. Textured endpapers, top edge gilt. Format: 7 ½” x 10”. 807 pp. Condition: 1 ½” tear in D.J. Book is as new.

$300.00
BIRDS OF NEW YORKby E. H. Eaton. Two volumes. University of the State of New York, 1910. Second edition. Illustrated by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Hardcover. Green cloth with gilt stamping. Vol. 1, 501 pp., 42 color plates; Vol. 2, 714 pp., 64 color plates. Format: 9 ¼” x 11 ¾”. Condition: Fine.

$200.00
CELEBRATION OF BIRDS (A): The Life and Art of
Louis Agassiz Fuertes
by Robert McCracken Peck. Walker & Co., 1982. 1st edition. Blue cloth hardcover, gilt lettering. D.J. Profusely illustrated. Format: 8 ¾” x 11 ¼”. 178 pp. Condition: As new.

$45.00
LOUIS AGASSIZ FUERTES AND THE SINGULAR
BEAUTY OF BIRDS
edit. by Frederick George Marcham. Harper and Row, 1971. 1st edition. Great bird art by the legendary Fuertes. Ivory cloth hardcover, embossed, D.J. Format: 11 ¼” x 14 ¼”. 220 pp. Condition: Finest I’ve seen for this book. ½” tear in D.J. which is now protected with mylar sleeve, all else almost as new.

$85.00
LOUIS AGASSIZ FUERTES AND THE SINGULAR
BEAUTY OF BIRDS
edit. by Frederick George Marcham. Harper & Row, 1971. 1st edition. Great bird art by the legendary Fuertes. Ivory cloth hardcover, D.J. Format: 11 ¼” x 14 ¼”. 220 pp. Condition: bookplate, D.J. slightly frayed on edges. Book is very fine.

$75.00
A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE DUCKSby John C. Phillips. Dover Publications, 1986. Unabridged reprint of the classic four volume set published from 1922-1926. This reprint is four volumes bound into two. Illustrated by Frank W. Benson, Allan Brooks, L. A. Fuertes, Henrik Gronvold, and S. Kobayashi. 176 plates, 74 in full color. Tan cloth hardcover, D.J. Vol. 1, 264 pp.; Vol. 2, 409 pp.; Vol. 3, 383 pp.; Vol. 4, 489 pp. Format: 8 ¾” x 11 ½”. Condition: As new.

$90.00
SAVAGE ABYSSINIAby James E. Baum. J. H. Sears and Co., 1927. 1st edition. Account of an expedition to Abyssinia with Louis Agassiz Fuertes sponsored by the Field Museum of Chicago. On their return, Fuertes completed THE BIRDS OF ABYSSINIA and shortly afterward, was killed when his car was struck by a train at a crossing. The book is dedicated to Fuertes. Brick red cloth hardcover, gilt title and decoration, no D.J., endpapers are map of route taken on expedition. Format: 6 ½” x 9 ½”. 336 pp. Condition: Fine.

$40.00
TO A YOUNG BIRD ARTIST: Letters From
Louis Agassiz Fuertes to George Miksch Sutton
Univ. of Oklahoma, 1979. Illustrated by Sutton. Medium brown cloth hardcover with dark brown linen spine. D.J. VERY SCARCE. Format: 5 ¾” x 8 ½”. 147 pp. Condition: As new.

$75.00
UPLAND GAME BIRDSby Edwin Sandys. MacMillan, 1902. Green cloth hardcover, gilt stamped. Top edge gilt. Illustrated by A. B. Frost, L. A. Fuertes, C. L. Bull, and J. O. Nugent. Format: 5 ¾” x 8 ¼”. 427 pp. Condition: Ex library but in very fine condition. Library notes are in pencil. Nice copy.

$50.00
THE WARBLERS OF NORTH AMERICAby Frank M. Chapman. D. Appleton & Co., 1907. 1st edition. 24 full-page color plates by L. A. Fuertes and Bruce Horsfall. Blue cloth hardcover, gilt title, no D.J. Format: 7” x 9 ¾”. 306 pp. Condition: Good +.

$25.00












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