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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Balfour Books.
London: Viking/Rainbird, 1987. Very Good + Copy in black cloth on boards in Very Good unclipped D/J. Jacket slightly creased around edges, otherwise sound. Text on end papers. Free of inscriptions. Clean text with attractive colour and b/w plates. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, elgin_books.
Since 1600 some 80 bird species have become extinct. The author has drawn on a wide range of sources for his accounts of these birds, their habits and demise, with evidence of preserved specimens brought to life by the eye-witness accounts of early travellers and explorers. Their stories are sometimes tantalisingly slight: isolated sightings of a single bird may be the only evidence that a species ever existed. By contrast, the expeditions of Nineteenth Century naturalists are often well documented and their descriptions accompanied by detailed drawings and paintings. In more recent cases our knowledge about an extinct species can be so extensive that even the precise time and place of death of its last surviving member is recorded. Virtually all of the species documented here are illustrated with colour plates from archival sources, including the work of such acknowledged masters as Audubon, Keulemans and Lear. These artists often had the advantage of working from fresh specimens or even from living birds, and besides its beauty their work is a primary source of scientific knowledge in its own right. Where no appropriate picture exists, new paintings have been produced especially for the book. The stories of these birds are sometimes fantastic, often touching and humorous, but ultimately sad. Extinct Birds is a fascinating record of those species of birds which have been unable to adapt and survive, and a timely reminder of the human capacity to change the environment for the worse. Hardcover, Ausgabe: First U.S. Edition, Label: Facts on File, Facts on File, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1988-03, Studio: Facts on File, Verkaufsrang: 235176.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Black Bean Books LLC.
Comstock Pub. Assoc/Cornell University Press, 2001-04-01 2016-11-26. Hardcover. Good. Overall in good shape--Ex library w/ usual markings/stickers, stamps to fore edge. Edge wear to DJ/pages, light rubbing to covers, DJ protected by mylar. The pages are clean and unmarked, the binding tight. *A.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Ivy_League_Books.
We learn from an early age that nothing is quite so dead as a dodo. We've heard stories of flocks of passenger pigeons once darkening the skies over North America, only to be reduced to a single bird, Martha, who perished in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1914. Errol Fuller's gloriously illustrated Extinct Birds provides details of the natural history and fates of more than 80 species of birds now believed to be gone forever. In a lively, compelling style, Fuller conveys accurate scientific and historical information about the lives, times, and disappearances of bird species since 1600. Fuller's species accounts are vivid reminders of what birds, precisely, the world has already lost. The physical evidence provided by preserved specimens is given narrative texture with Fuller's use of eyewitness accounts of the lives (and, in many cases, the last days) of bird species from all over the world. Nearly all the accounts in Extinct Birds are illustrated with breathtaking color plates, many by artists, including Audubon, Keulemans, and Lear, who had the advantage of working from fresh specimens or even from living birds. These paintings, beautiful in their own right, are also primary sources of scientific knowledge. Birds for which appropriate illustrations did not already exist are shown in new paintings produced especially for this book.The revised edition of Extinct Birds includes several species―among them three from North America―not covered in the original 1987 edition. More happily, two species have been rediscovered in the intervening years, and several others in danger of being declared extinct have been located again. By describing in words and pictures the beauty and diversity of those birds already lost to extinction, Fuller inspires us to do what we can to prevent future editions of Extinct Birds from drawing new chapters from the field guides of today. Hardcover, Edition: 1st, Label: Comstock Pub. Assoc/Cornell University Press, Comstock Pub. Assoc/Cornell University Press, Product group: Book, Published: 2001-04, Studio: Comstock Pub. Assoc/Cornell University Press, Sales rank: 1576163.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, bookmanor.
Ornithologists estimate that there have been 150,000 avian species since birds first appeared millions of years ago. If that figure, based on incomplete evidence, is correct, writes Errol Fuller, then nearly 94 percent of those species have gone extinct over time. Most have done so through more or less natural causes--through disease, say, or widespread climatic change. In historic times, though, many species have been hastened to extinction through human actions, inadvertent and deliberate. In the case of the Hawaiian rail, Fuller writes in this catalog of birds that have disappeared since 1600, the introduction of alien species, such as the mongoose, domestic cat, and rat, was probably to blame. Rats, too, killed off the Lord Howe Island white-eye when a ship accidentally ran aground there in 1918. The Carolina parakeet disappeared a few years later, owing, perhaps, to the destruction of its forest habitat and its beautiful plumage, highly prized by hunters. Mosquitoes carried on other ships felled many other island species. And so on. Curiously, Fuller writes, the usual-suspect agents of extinction--hunting, say, or egg collecting--have had a smaller effect on vulnerable bird species than have changes in the environment wrought by humans and their "accompanying menagerie." Fuller's book makes for a sobering obituary, and one of particular interest to environmentalists engaged in habitat preservation and restoration. --Gregory McNamee, Hardcover, Ausgabe: First Edition, Format: Import, Label: VIKING, VIKING, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1987, Studio: VIKING, Verkaufsrang: 7155703.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Joy Logistics Incorporated.
Viking/Rainbird, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good in good dust jacket. Price clipped. Interior clean, binding tight, light wear to covers. Moderate wear to dust jacket, light wrinkling and a few chips around edges.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, mynovemberguest.
An absorbing study of the world's recently extinct bird species, the first complete survey since Walter Rothschild's classic work of 1907. Drawing together many strands of evidence and supposition, Errol Fuller succeeds in combining scientific accuracy with a lively and readable style. 200 color illustrations. Hardcover, Ausgabe: First Edition, Label: Facts on File, Facts on File, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1988-03, Studio: Facts on File, Verkaufsrang: 480013.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Discover Books.
Comstock Pub. Assoc/Cornell University Press. Hardcover. POOR. Acceptable copy with heavy wear to cover and pages. Pages have writing and or highlighting. Might be an ex-library copy and not include CD or accessories.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Better World Books [51315977], Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, Castle Rock [54302400], Bedford, NS, Canada.
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