Dear Lord Rothschild: Birds, Butterflies and History [Thomas Lovejoy's Copy]

Hardcover, with dust jacket. Bound in sand colored cloth with gold lettering to the front cover and spine. Light green dust jacket with black and white photo of a cart being pulled by zebras. Black and brown lettering to the front and spine. Dated 1983 on the copyright page. No date on title page. 398 pages. Good condition. Binding is strong and tight. Cloth has some slight toning along the foot of the boards. Corners square and free of wear. Pages lightly toned. No marks or writing. Page edges foxed. Dust jacket has some foxing too. No tears or creasing. Light wrinkling near the head of the spine. Overall good condition. Tom Lovejoy has written his name neatly at the head of the title page. 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.…