The Arcturus Adventure. An Account of the New York Zoological Society's First Oceanographic Expedition. Published under the auspices of the Zoological Society.
New York & London, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. tall8vo., 23.5cm, the First Edition, xix,(1),439p., with 8 colour plates, including frontispiece & 69 black-and-white illustrations on 66 sheet, vividly colour decorated endpapers, Signed By The Author on a special sheet before the frontis, original dark blue-green cloth, gilt block spine and cover titles, t.e.g., others untrimmed, a fine copy in very good to fine toned complete jacket which matches the endpapers, scarce in this condition signed copies in the jacket are very scarce. (TR.DS). Item #41233
~ Beebe, American ornithologist, explorer and author, was curator, of ornithology and then director of the department of tropical research at the New York Zoological Society. He made several expeditions to Central and South America, the Orient and the West Indies; this voyage was undertaken from New York to the Sargossa Sea, Cocos, and the Galapagos, and was the ninth expedition of the Zoological Society. "My object in this volume" is "a scientifically accurate popular presentation of high lights and vivid experiences of the expedition." An important and interesting book.
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