The Book of Fishes; Revised and Enlarged Edition. Presenting the Better Known Species of Food and Game Fishes of the Coastal and Inland Waters of the United States
Published by The National Geographic Society, Washington DC, 1939
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.Ground Zero Books, Ltd.
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[10], 367, [3] pages. With 443 Color Portraits, 102 Biographies, and 162 Photographs. Individual sections have copyrights from 1919, 1921, 1922, 1923,1924, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1938, and 1939. Extensive Biographies of designated fishes familiar to American waters. Index. Some endpaper foxing. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some endpaper discoloration. A portion of the title page has been cut off. This includes sections by John Oliver La Gorce, Charles Haskins Townsend, Louis L. Mowbray, John T. Nichols, Leonard P. Schultz, Roy Waldo Miner, Can Campen Heilner,Russell Maloney, and Imogene Powell. Original paintings by Hashime Murayame and Else Bostelmann. John Oliver La Gorce (1880-1959) was an American writer and explorer known for his work in the National Geographic Society. He served as Associate Editor of the Society from 1905 to 1922, Vice President from 1922 to 1954, and President from 1954 to 1957, before retiring at the age of 77. He also write many articles for the Magazine. His biggest interest was perhaps in fishes, and in 1919 he participated in a hunt that brought in a 22-foot manta ray, the world's biggest to date. He also helped produce the world's first underwater photographs in 1926, and edited all versions of the National Geographic's The Book of Fishes. Charles Haskins Townsend, Sc.D. (September 29, 1859 ? January 28, 1944) was an American zoologist. In 1883, he became assistant United States Fish Commissioner in charge of salmon propagation in California. For a time, he was in charge of deep-sea explorations on the USS Albatross.[3] From 1897 to 1902, he served as chief of the Fish Commission's fisheries division. He then served as director of the New York Aquarium at Castle Garden, from 1902 until his retirement in 1937. Louis Leon Arthur Mowbray was a Bermudian naturalist. Louis Leon Arthur Mowbray was hired by the Bermuda Natural History Society as director for Bermuda's first aquarium. In 1911 he became director of the South Boston Aquarium which he ran for three years. In 1914, he became superintendent of the New York Aquarium. In 1928 he became director of the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo which he ran until 1944. Mowbray successfully bred the first Galapagos tortoises and Galapagos penguins in captivity. Hashime Murayama (1879?1954) was a Japanese American painter. He was best known for his exquisite paintings of birds, insects, fish, mammals, and other wildlife. His work was featured in The National Geographic Magazine from 1921 to 1941. As an artist at National Geographic, he paid meticulous attention to his drawings, adding his distinct style to them and making them instantly popular. Fish were his personal favorites. To get sources from which to study, he kept bug specimens in a jar and visited aquariums to look at frogs, trout and salmon. After a career of over twenty years as an artist, Murayama was fired in September 1941 for being an immigrant (and because Japan-United States relations were about to be severed due to the attack on Pearl Harbor) and placed under arrest. Revised and Enlarged Edition, presumed first printing thus.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Book of Fishes; Revised and Enlarged Edition. Presenting the Better Known Species of Food and Game Fishes of the Coastal and Inland Waters of the United States
- Author
- La Gorce, John Oliver (Editor)
- Publisher
- The National Geographic Society, Washington DC
- Publication year
- 1939
- Condition
- Fair
- Dust jacket
- No DJ present
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Illustrator
- Hashime Murayama and Else Bostelmann
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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