A LABRADOR SPRING
by TOWNSEND, Charles Wendell, M. D
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Dana Estes & Company, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo; xi, 262 pages, pictorial green cloth, some flaking of the white enamel; ex libris O. W. Smith of Oconomowoc, WI, with his bookplate and some rubber stamps, neatly
Dr. Townsend was a renowned Boston obstetrician and pediatrician, but his serious hobby was ornithology. He was a member of the Nuttall Ornithological Club. Townsend sought to follow in Audubon's footsteps in Labrador. This title is his second book about traversing Labrador in the Spring of 1909. "...alll branches of natural history on this Labrador coast were a delight to the writer, and that human studies, both Indian and white, came in for a full share of his observations." Extensively illustrated with photogravures.
Dr. Townsend was a renowned Boston obstetrician and pediatrician, but his serious hobby was ornithology. He was a member of the Nuttall Ornithological Club. Townsend sought to follow in Audubon's footsteps in Labrador. This title is his second book about traversing Labrador in the Spring of 1909. "...alll branches of natural history on this Labrador coast were a delight to the writer, and that human studies, both Indian and white, came in for a full share of his observations." Extensively illustrated with photogravures.
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- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2020382
- Title
- A LABRADOR SPRING
- Author
- TOWNSEND, Charles Wendell, M. D
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Dana Estes & Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1910
- Keywords
- labrador canada montagnais tribe indians native americans esquimaux eskimo inuit acadia
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Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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