Schmidt karl patterson 1890 (42 risultati)

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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Here is a Lovely Vintage Children's Picture Book from 1938 about domesticated animals. It is a clearly-written, engaging book written for upper levels of elementary schools. The author, who worked in the Field Museum of Natural History, talks about domesticated animals, their uses, their interaction with humans, their personalities, etc. For each animal discussed, Mr. Schmidt gives a historical account of the animal's zoological ancestry. It's a bit of science, but easy, comfortable science. Animals and their various breeds discussed are dogs, cats, horses, cattle, goats, sheep, pigs, donkeys. It's a fine text with wonderful pictures. The color plates are lovely. TITLE : Our Friendly Animals and Whence they Came (ON COVER: "Friendly Animals") AUTHOR : Karl Patterson Schmidt (1890 - 1957) Schmidt was one of the foremost herpetologists in the world. INTERIOR COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS : by Percy Reeves COVER PICTURE, END-PAPERS & TEXTUAL BLACK-AND-WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS : Walter Alois Weber IMPRINT : Donohue & Company PLACE : Chicago - New York COPYRIGHT : (1938) ISSUE DATE : [1947 - as per OCLC - World Catalog] EDITION : Reprint PHYSICAL DETAILS : Oversize hardcover; Approximately 10" x 12" (quarto) hard cover in color pictorial boards with cloth spine; 64 pages; 12 full-page color plates, numerous line vignette drawings; line-pictorial end-papers printed in brown against a buff background. With Full-Page Color illustrations by Percy Reeves, and Cover Picture, End-papers, and Textual Line Drawings by Walter Alois Weber CONDITION -- VERY GOOD -- This is a previously owned book that remains clean and presentable, with the following details noted :: EXTERIOR : Two or three small, transparent water drop spots display on the front cover; mild surface creasing to rear board -- else pictorial boards are bright and clean; moderate edge wear and bumped corners, with attendant splitting to corner tips; spine displays slight fraying at extremities, else clean. BINDING : Solid INTERIOR : Clean with bright colors throughout. no writing or marking. Percy Reeves (Color picture) / Walter Alois Weber (Cover Art & Interior Line Drawings) (illustratore).…

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Condizione: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition, First Printing. NORTH AMERICAN WILDLIFE THROUGH THE ART OF WALTER ALOIS WEBER. A large-format natural-history book introducing young readers to the behavior, habitats, migration, hunting, family life, and adaptations of North American mammals. Written by Field Museum zoologist Karl Patterson Schmidt and extensively illustrated by wildlife artist Walter Alois Weber, the volume combines accessible natural history with twelve full-page color plates and numerous drawings throughout the text. Bibliographic records confirm the 1934 edition, 64 pages, and twelve color plates. Weber's illustrations range from wolverine, beaver, rabbit, jaguar, marten, bear and caribou to otter, fox, bats, armadillo and badger, giving the book considerable appeal as a work of vintage American wildlife illustration. PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS: TWELVE COLOR PLATES IN AN OVERSIZED PICTORIAL FORMAT. +++ Publisher's rust-colored cloth spine over illustrated paper-covered boards, the front depicting deer and a squirrel in a woodland setting. Large quarto, approximately 12 inches tall. 64 pages. +++ Pictorial endpapers printed in rust-colored ink and illustrated throughout with wildlife drawings by Walter Alois Weber. Twelve full-page color plates, including the color frontispiece, with additional illustrations incorporated throughout the text. The National Agricultural Library bibliographic record describes the volume as 64 pages with twelve leaves of color plates and a height of 32 cm. +++ Contents include chapters on animal workers, hair and fur, predators and prey, fishing animals, migration, play, family life, unusual North American mammals, and animal behavior. CONDITION: WORN BOARDS; FIRM BINDING AND VERY GOOD INTERIOR. Good overall. Pictorial boards show considerable surface rubbing, scuffing and areas of paper loss, particularly around the margins and upper portion of the front board, with additional edge and corner wear. Rear board shows general age-soiling and handling wear. Cloth spine remains intact. Binding firm. Interior Very Good, with pages and illustrations clean and well preserved. Color plates remain bright and attractive. No dust jacket. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: WALTER ALOIS WEBER AND THE POPULARIZATION OF AMERICAN WILDLIFE. Karl Patterson Schmidt was a prominent American zoologist associated with Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History. Here his account of North American mammals was presented for a juvenile audience through the work of Walter Alois Weber, whose wildlife illustration became familiar to generations of American readers. A specialist children's bookseller specifically identifies Weber as a noted National Geographic illustrator and emphasizes his role in the book's appeal. Published in 1934, the volume belongs to a period when illustrated natural-history books helped introduce younger readers to animal ecology and behavior through a combination of scientific observation and narrative presentation. Its oversized format, decorative endpapers, abundant text illustrations, and twelve color plates make it particularly representative of illustrated juvenile natural history between the wars. SUBJECTS: North American Mammals, Wildlife, Animal Behavior, Animal Habitats, Natural History, Karl Patterson Schmidt, Walter Alois Weber, Wildlife Illustration, Mammals, Illustrated Books, Wildlife Illustration, Children's Nonfiction, Zoology, Animal Books.…

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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. xii, 837 pp; 263 figs.; 54 tables. Original cloth. Near Fine. Bibliography, pp. 731-801. 'Clyde Allee's teaching was so intimately related to his research that to give an account of his researches and of the books and papers that embody its results is to give some account also of his teaching. Of 181 research papers, reviews, and popular articles, 70 were in joint authorship with students or colleagues; he joined with colleagues in writing several of his books, ending with the massive Principles of Animal Ecology with five authors. He clearly made a conscious effort to exemplify in man, at the university level, the principle of cooperation among animals. . . . The work on Principles of Animal Ecology was finished in 1948 and the book was published late in 1949. It had a favorable reception in the ecological world. Charles Elton, our eminent British colleague, wrote in his review: 'Francis Bacon wrote that 'Some Books are to be Tasted, Others to be Swallowed, and Some Few to be Chewed and Digested.' This book belongs to the last class. It is by far the most important general treatise on the subject that has ever been published, and one which should . . . be in every ecologist's library (whether he be a botanist, zoologist, or general naturalist). To any serious working ecologist, and above all to the teacher on the subject, it is above price. The amount of sheer hard reading and analytical thought and writing that have gone into its making fills one with admiration and respect. . . . Anyone who takes the trouble to master this great treatise will find himself as well educated in animal ecology as anyone can be from a book. . . . I can hardly believe that anyone who really took in the range and depth of what is put into this book could remain narrow-minded' ' (Schmidt, Warder Allee 1885-1955: A Biographical Memoir, National Academy of Sciences, 1957). In this memoir Schmidt also goes into considerable, gripping detail regarding an accident that the wheelchair-bound Allee sustained (after the death of his wife that required his daughters to care for him), falling eight feet vertically onto his head and requiring spinal surgery by the esteemed Percival Bailey, who had operated on Allee previously: 'Early in 1930 the first indications of a most disturbing paralysis of the lower limbs began to appear. The paralysis increased, and was diagnosed as a spinal tumor, one of those strange unpredictable embryonic inclusions to which the human body is in relatively rare cases subject. The problem was faced, and an operation was performed by the great neurosurgeon Dr. Percival Bailey.'.…