First Report of the State Zoologist, Accompanied with Notes on the Birds of Minnesota Sherman Foote Denton is one

Sherman Foote Denton is one of the most recognized natural history illustrators and his beautiful chromolithographs prints are highly collectible

This is the rare first edition

Wied’s account of his North American travels is second only to Lewis and Clark’s report on the Trans-Mississippian region they explored in 1804-1806

thick lg 4to (11 3/4 x 8 3/8 inches)

First Report of the State Zoologist, Accompanied with Notes on the Birds of Minnesota Sherman Foote Denton is onePp. 487. Publishers original blind stamped brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and with gilt panel line, 8vo. The Geology and Natural History Survey of Minnesota, Report #1. The first comprehensive study of avifauna of Minnesota. Often listed under the name of the state zoologist, H. Nachtrieb. Tipped in at the title page is a printed card With the Compliments of Henry F. Nachtrieb, State Zoologist. This title was the first in a proposed series