Wanderings in South America: The North-West of the United States and the Antilles, in the Years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824, with Original Instructions for the Perfect Preservation of Birds, etc. for Cabinets of Natural History, Including a Memoir of the Author [Northwest]

New York: Sturgis & Walton Company, 1909. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8x5x1. Bull, Charles Livingston. First thus. Minimal wear to corners, front hinge weakening, pencil names on front endpaper. 1909 Hard Cover. xxvi, 338 pp. Green cloth, gilt titles, top edge gilt, toucan illustration on front board. Color frontispiece and plates by Charles Livingston Bull, who also illustrated White Fang and The Call of the Wild. 1909 reissue of work first published in 1825. The author was an English naturalist, and after returning home from the expeditions that informed this work, he transformed a portion of his West Yorkshire estate into the world's first wildfowl and nature preserve. David Attenborough noted that Waterton was "one of the first people anywhere to recognise, not only that the natural world was of great importance, but that it needed protection as humanity made more and more demands on it.