A Flying Trip to the Tropics: A Record of an Ornithological Visit to the United States of Colombia, South America and to the Island of Curacao, West Indies in the Year 1892

Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1895. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued.

First Edition, First Printing. 8vo; x,194 pages with an appendix with nice bibliography. 4 chromolithograph plates with tissue-guards in color by J. G. Keulemans printed by Mintern Bros,. London [Toucan; Parakeets; Partridge; Oriole.] 6 maps including one folding colored map of Columbia, & one double-page colored map of Curacao, Numerous additional illustrations from drawings and photographs. (including portraits).

Professionally rebacked in cloth colored as original with original front illustration and spine title attached. (truncated) New End-pages. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal shelf handling wear. Some dampstaining to some pages and plates but not affecting the image.. "A Record of an Ornithological Visit to the United States of Columbia and to the Island of Curacao, West Indies, in the Year 1892." A scarce study by the author a West Point instructor; despite the title the trip was by ship.

"The author was a lifelong soldier and educator, at Harvard and the US Military Academy, who combined his profession with his interest in natural history. This is the account of a trip to the tropics to collect ornithological specimens in 1892. It is interestingly told, with many photographs and illustrations and with observations of the people as well. A good bibliography is given on Colombia and Curaçao."

REF: OCLC: 769157894; American Nineteenth Century Color Plate Books;  Smith R48

Subjects: Colombia -- Description and travel; Birds -- Colombia; Natural history - Colombia; Curaçao; Birds , Colombia , Curaçao (Netherlands Antilles) , Description and travel , Natural history ; Ornithology (Inventory #: 17348)