Buy this book on-line Rothschild, Miriam : Dear Lord Rothschild: Birds, Butterflies And HistoryBalaban Publishers, Glenside, PA, 1983 ISBN 086689019X
398pp. B&W and Color Photographs. DJ is stretched and has light edgewear . Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild (1868-1937), was a British banker, politician, zoologist and a scion of the Rothschild family. Rothschild studied zoology at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Meeting Albert Günther sparked his interest in the taxonomy of birds and butterflies. Although Rothschild himself travelled and collected in Europe and North Africa for many years, his work and health concerns limited his range, and beginning while at Cambridge he employed others - explorers, professional collectors, and residents - to collect for him in remote and little-known parts of the world. He also hired taxidermists, a librarian, and, most importantly, professional scientists to work with him to curate and write up the resulting collections: Ernst Hartert, for birds, from 1892until his retirement at the age of 70 in 1930; and Karl Jordan for entomology, from 1893 until Rothschild's death in 1937. At its largest, Rothschild's collection included 300,000 bird skins, 200,000 birds' eggs, 2,250,000 butterflies, and 30,000 beetles, as well as thousands of specimens of mammals, reptiles, and fishes. They formed the largest zoological collection ever amassed by a private individual, 8vo, Very Good in Good+ DJ Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Rothschild, Miriam : Dear Lord Rothschild: Birds, Butterflies And History. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres rares, out of print books, first editions, livres anciens and libri antichi. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |