Description

PUBLICATION DETAILS: Originally published in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series- Volume 41 Part 3, 1951, pages 387-591.   This is a 1979 reprint by W. Graham Arader III, King of Prussia, PA.    Contains illustrations in black and white.  Bibliography, and index.  An important reference work for collectors of bird prints and lovers of birds. Details the extensive groundwork laid in the field of ornithology prior to John James Audubon’s landmark observations in the first half of the nineteenth century. In this book Allen discusses works of the early French explorers, English colonists, and scientists, through to the new American ornithologists who established the precedents for the later epics of Audubon.
 
ALLEN: Elsa Guerdrum Allen was an ornithologist, lecturer, writer, and Research Associate in Ornithology at Cornell University.  Born 1888. Cornell University Class of 1912; Ph.D. in 1929.  Died 1969. 
 
CONDITION: Original green cloth.  Fine book in a very good DJ.