Murphy Francis Jacques (9 results)

Condition: Good. Good condition ex-library book with usual library markings and stickers.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Boards. after Francis L Jacques (illus) (illustrator). 1st edition. 1st ed., two volumes, quarto, original cloth boards with gilt titles and blind-stmaped decoration, b&w illus, colour plates, pp 1245. Two previous owner's bookplates. Near-fine condition. Extremely heavy, please inquire regarding postage. Plates from the paintings of Francis L Jacques.

Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published By The American Museum Of Natural History, New York. 1936. 2 Volumes. Xxii, 1245 pgs. Illustrated. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Geographic background, hydrology, field work, family and species accounts include penguins, albatrosses, petrels, storm petrels, shearwaters, tropic-birds, pelicans, boobies, cormorants, man-o-war birds, oystercatchers, ducks & geese, skuas and jaegers, gulls, terns, skimmers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Francis L. Jacques (illustrator). A fascinating two volume work on seabirds, profusely illustrated with a number of colour plates. Robert Cushman Murphy (1887-1973) was an American ornithologist who travelled on a number of expeditions on the ocean and was highly regarded as an expert on seabirds, with Murphy's petrel named for him. He also penned works such as 'Bird Islands of Peru' and 'Logbook for Grace: Whaling Brig Daisy', as well as over six hundred articles.This work is considered a classic piece of expertise on the seabirds of South America.Profusely illustrated with seventy two plates bound to the rear, including ten full colour plates illustrated by Francis L. Jacques.Complete in two volumes. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally very smart, slight discolouration to the spine. Internally firmly bound, pages bright and clean. Near Fine. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First edition. An association copy (copies) of the true first edition of this title, which won the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing in 1938, the year of this signing. On the front free end paper of volume one: "Inscribed with enthusiasm for my colleague Eleanor Elizabeth Herrick, Robert Cushman Murphy, Woodmere, June 19th, 1938." Volume two is also signed and dated (but not inscribed) by Murphy. Uncommon signed, and importantly both volumes are signed additionally by the illustrator Francis Lee Jacques, which is scarce. Eleanor Herrick Stickney was for thirty years the ornithologist and librarian at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. Woodmere, Long Island, is where she grew up. She was a precocious birder who joined the American Ornithologist Union (AOU) at age 14, and she was mentored by Murphy (this book signed to her at the age of 19) and he remained a great friend. They corresponded extensively. Related to this book, she produced the offprint "Birds Collected During the Whitney South Sea Expedition," published in theAmerican Museum [of Natural History]Noviates seriesin 1943. Murphy helped organize later stages of the Whitney expedition, it seems, and he suggested this study to Stickney and helped facilitate it (she thanks him and Ernst Mayr in the publication). Robert Cushman Murphy was a prominent ornithologist and the Lamont Curator of Birds at the American Museum of Natural History. He served as the president of the AOU and won its Brewster Medal. Hispapers are at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia.This book is an authoritative study of South American ocean and shore birds, his expertise, based on a range of field work, but especially the Brewster-Stanford expedition and its resulting collection of birds at the American Museum of Natural History. Dedicated to his predecessor at the AMNH, Frank M. Chapman. Two small quartos, thick at more than 600 pages each. Blue-green cloth with gilt lettering. With sixteen colored plates (paintings) between them by Jacques and additional black and white photos, sketches, and figures throughout. An extra (duplicate) color plate is laid in at the front of each volume. No dust jackets as issued. 1200 copies of the first edition were printed, and this is copy 560 per the rear colophon in volume 2. The MacMillan edition also states a publication date of 1936, but it's the trade edition printed in 1943. Both volumes are very good with a minor bumping/rubbing to corners and toning to the text block faces, with faint foxing to their outer edges. A nice association, and scarce with Jacques's signatures. Note: Shipping to international destinations may require extra postage fees in light of the weight of these volumes.