1925 Bird Islands of Peru: The Record of a Sojourn on the West Coast

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

First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, fifty-two photographs across thirty-one plates, and eight in-text figures. Collated complete. A detailed and comprehensive ornithological study of the author's expedition across Peru, with chapters on the ancient capital and its environs, the seacoast of the Incas, Guano, the Chincha Islands, the Humboldt Current, San Gallan, and more. Written and illustrated by Robert Cushman Murphy, an American ornithologist and Lamont Curator of birds at the American Museum of Natural History.