Search Results: the naturalist in la plata by wh hudson

Appleton and Co., 1892-01-01. Hardcover. Good. . minor wear.

New York: Dover Publications, Inc., [1988]. Octavo, softbound, 416 pp. Near-Fine. Illustrated. “To the eyes of the uneducated observer, the pampas -- vast treeless plains stretching across central Argentina -- represent a monotonous and unending sea of grass. To author, naturalish and ornithologist William Henry Hudson (1841-1922), this land devoid of mountains, woods, lakes and riverrs was a fascinating showcase for natur’es masterpeices, a place where he spent his childhood studying plant and animal life and becoming an acute observer of countless human and natural dramas...Hudson’s celebrated classic, reprinted here in an unabridged and unaltered edtion, offers an engrossing view of a region that encompasses 200,000 square miles and extends from the Atlantic Coast to the foothills of Andes. It is a world abounding in nature’s noble and beautiful forms and filled with a polyglot of sounds -- from the varied cries of its mriad creatures to the whistling of the wind as it sweeps… Read More

E.P. Dutton & Co., 1922. Hardcover. Good. .

London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good. 394 p. 5 3/4 x 8 1/4 in. Several illustrations. Green cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Condition of the book is VERY GOOD: light wear to covers- a bit heavier at corners, spine lightly darkened, edges of text block lightly yellowed, pages clean, binding loose but fine.

Chapman & Hall, 1892. Book. Illus. by Smit, J.. Very Good. Hard Covers. 2nd Edition. 2nd edition. Edition of 750 copies. In green cloth. Front hinge starting to crack. couple corners lightly bumped. Previous owner name. Still a solid copy..

J.M. Dent & Co. Used - Good. 1903. Hardcover. 8vo. Pictorial boards. Gilt title on spine. Top edge gilt. Untrimmed edges. Illus. Ex-lib with typical markings. Light bubbling beneath cloth on front board and along spine. Both boards have been over opened but are still intact. Some shelf-wear along edges and corners. Text block toned. Good. (Subject: History).

London: Chapman and Hall, 1895. Hardcover. Very Good. Third edition. Octavo. 394pp. Illustrations by J. Smit. Publisher's teal cloth. Gift inscription and owner stamp on front pastedown, binding lightly worn, some offsetting on endpapers, a very good copy with the gilt title bright. Nature and wildlife of Argentina.

Chapman & Hall, 1892. Good; frayed spine edges, hinges starting. Decorated cloth; 388p., illus.

London: J.M. Dent & Co, 1903. New Edition. . Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. J. Smit. Signed. A Good copy in green cloth lettered in gold, top edge gilt. This edition with a new Preface by the author. Inscribed/signed by the author: "Will Rothenstein from his friend W.H.Hudson", and with the bookplate of artist Sir William Rothenstein inside the front cover. Rothenstein's portrait of Hudson hangs in the National Portrait Gallery, London.