The Great Auk
de Fuller, Errol
Garefowls, Penguins of the North, Riesenalks, Apponaths, Great Auks - all of these were names for a sea bird whose extinction was entirely the work of humankind. The birds existence ended on the morning of the third day of June 1844, when the last two recorded great auks were killed by three fishermen on the island of Eldey. a few miles south of Iceland in the North Atlantic Ocean. For thousands of years, until not so long before that fateful day, great auks swam the Atlantic in their millions and flocked to their breeding grounds from Newfoundland in the west, to Iceland and the Outer Hebrides in the east. Whole colonies at a time were hunted to death for their meat, feathers, and fat by sailors and fishermen from Europe and the Americas. Since the total vanishing of the species, the great auk has become an icon of extinction, alongside the dodo, the passenger pigeon, and the moa. More highly prized as a trophy than any other extinct bird, all its attributes - from its eggs to the oral history of its demise - were until fairly recently, voraciously collected. Its protean appearance in almost every artistic and visual form, from cigarette boxes to bronze and marble statues, has immortalised one of the most tragic man-made extinctions. The Great Auk: The Extinction of the Original Penguin tells this tale of destruction and of what we, as a species, do to the world around us. Errol Fuller is a world-renowned authority on extinct birds and the author of many books concerned with extinction and conservation.
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GREAT AUK
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New York: Harry N Abrams Inc, 1999. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Book condition is Very Good+; with a Very Good+ dust jacket. Small bump to jacket at spine. Text is clean and unmarked, illustrated throughout. ; 11.90 X 9.60 X 1.40 inches; 448 pages. Precio
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SOUTHBOROUGH, KENT, UK: ERROL FULLER. Bound in clean blue cloth with blind-stamped titles to front board and bright gilt titles to spine, this 1999 hardcover First Edition, designed, written and published by Errol Fuller is VG in VG Jacket (unclipped).448pp with 200 color plates, this massive and exhaustive monograph on the extinct Great Auk, not seen since 1844, is a… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Southborough: Errol Fuller, 1999. 448pp, colour photographic d/j with title in white to green spine. Signed by author at title page, some shelfwear. Small tear which has been repaired internally to d/j front cover at top corner. Further small tear to d/j at top of spine. Front d/j flap creased, d/j corners rubbed.. Signed By Author. First. Hard Cover. Good/Good.… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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New York: Harry N. Abrams. Hardcover. 1999. 1st Edition. 4to 447pp . Very Good+ in Fine DJ. B&W and Color Illustrations. Bottom corners just slightly bumped. The Great Auk is an extinct, penguin-like seabird, not reliably seen since the year 1 844 . Precio
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The Great Auk Project, 1998. Leather Bound. Fine. Bound in half Morocco over marbled boards. Number 123 of an edition of 400 signed and numbered copies. Slipcase. Over 200 color illustrations including a tipped-in color frontispiece by Fuller. A signed, limited edition print by Raymond Harris-Ching is included (shipped separately in a map tube). Precio
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New York: Harry N Abrams Inc, 1999. 448pp/200 colour plates, other illustrations. Every aspect of the Great Auk's natural-and unnatural-history is covered, with special chapters devoted to its life cycle and the years during which it dwindled to extinction. Other chapters concern prehistory, archaeological finds, and areas where the bird made its home. This fascinating historical catalogue covers every known… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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New York: Abrams, 1999. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Larger 4to. pp. 448, ""more than 400 plates (200 are in color). Publisher's dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket, sm folio (12 x 9 3/4 inches). This is the first American edition. Historical records show the Great Auk became extinct about 1844. Every… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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The Great Auk : The Extinction of the Original Penguin
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1999. FULLER, Errol. The Great Auk. New York: Harry N. Abrams, [1999]. 1st U.S. ed. 4to. 448pp. Illus., portraits, plates. Orig. cloth, non-priceclipped d/j. Fine. Precio
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