Sales

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Author: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1142
Release: 1943
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Iceland

Iceland
Author: Sabine Baring-Gould
Publisher: Signal Books
Total Pages: 532
Release: 2007
Genre: Birds
ISBN: 9781902669892

So begins Sabine Baring-Gould's account of his journey on horseback around Iceland in 1862. Aged twenty-eight, the young writer and teacher was fascinated by the tradition of the Icelandic sagas, and this was the catalyst for his adventure and the book that emerged from it. His voyage took him from the then tiny settlement of Reykjavik through remote and hostile terrain, passing through the empty expanse of Iceland's countryside. He observed mountains and glaciers, volcanoes and geysers, wondering at the wild beauty of the landscape. He also recorded the rich flora and fauna that he saw-and, to his chagrin, that his companions shot.

Candle Days

Candle Days
Author: Marion Nicholl Rawson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 396
Release: 1927
Genre: Implements, utensils, etc
ISBN:

Portraits by Ingres

Portraits by Ingres
Author: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 610
Release: 1999
Genre: Drawing, French
ISBN: 0870998919

Om portrætter af den franske maler Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)

The Great Auk

The Great Auk
Author: Errol Fuller
Publisher: Bunker Hill Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2003
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9781593730031

A seabird whose extinction was entirely the work of humankind, the last two recorded great auk's were killed on June 3, 1844. This book pays homage to this incredible species.

Bibliography of Australia

Bibliography of Australia
Author: John Alexander Ferguson
Publisher: National Library Australia
Total Pages: 704
Release: 1975
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780642990464

Galapagos, World's End

Galapagos, World's End
Author: William Beebe
Publisher: Wm. Tyrrell & Company
Total Pages: 614
Release: 1924
Genre: Galapagos Islands
ISBN:

In 1835, Charles Darwin observed variations among the Galapagos Islands' species that inspired him to formulate the theory of natural selection. Eighty-eight years later, in 1923, a scientific expedition sponsored by the New York Zoological Society followed in Darwin's wake. Led by the author, a biologist and explorer, the scientists visited the the islands to study and obtain specimens of indigenous plants and animals. This is his personal account of that expedition. He recounts the expedition's productive results, including specimens of 60 species previously unknown to science, and an unparalleled accumulation of data that stimulated many scientific papers and new avenues of naturalistic inquiry.