1897 With Nature and a Camera: Being the Adventures and Observations of a Field Naturalist and an Animal Photographer

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First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

First edition. Scarce. Illustrated with one hundred and eighty pictures from photographs. Collated complete. A detailed and comprehensive naturalist study, with chapters on St. Kilda and its birds, the gamekeepers, nests and eggs, sea-birds, a day on Brighton Downs, the art of duck-decoying, and more. With reference to the methods of photography used. Created by the Kearton brothers, Richard and Cherry, a pair of British naturalists and some of the world's earliest wildlife photographers. They developed innovative methods to photograph animals in the wild and published the first natural history book to be entirely illustrated by wild photographs in 1895. This work was written by Richard, a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London and Royal Photographic Society, and illustrated by Cherry, a wildlife and news filmmaker, and friend to Theodore Roosevelt.