1968 The Last of the Wild: On the Track of Rare Animals

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, With Dustwrapper

The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper.

Bookplate of Desmond Morris to the front paste down.

Illustrated with 160 full page colour plates. Collated, complete.

Eugen Schuhmacher (1906-1973) was a German zoologist and pioneer of animal documentaries. This work showcases his fabulous wildlife photography in full-page colour, with anecdotes of his travels and seven years of filming across all continents of the world. It also includes alphabetically listed descriptions of all the species illustrated. This work has been translated by Gwynne Vevers and Winwood Reade.

From the library of Desmond Morris, a zoologist best known for his 1967 sociobiological work ‘The Naked Ape’. Alongside achieving great acclaim as a zoologist, Morris was also known for being an ethnologist and surrealist painter, and for popular television programmes, including ‘Zoo Time’.