. American bird magazine, ornithology. Birds. E:rTr:.E: in ^te-snj- THE NATURE LIBRARY is the only group of b >oks on natural history that gives scientifically accurate information in simple, narra- tive style, and in a way that makes it equally available for studious reference or casual entertainment. It represents the first attempt made to illustrate a work of such magnitude and importance with direct photogra- phic reproductions of living subjects of the animal, bird, fish, insect, and floral worlds in their native conditions. Additional to this photographic literal- ness, the fidelity t
. American bird magazine, ornithology. Birds. E:rTr:.E: in ^te-snj- THE NATURE LIBRARY is the only group of b >oks on natural history that gives scientifically accurate information in simple, narra- tive style, and in a way that makes it equally available for studious reference or casual entertainment. It represents the first attempt made to illustrate a work of such magnitude and importance with direct photogra- phic reproductions of living subjects of the animal, bird, fish, insect, and floral worlds in their native conditions. Additional to this photographic literal- ness, the fidelity to nature has been greatly heightened by color plates, which are so perfectly treated that the exact tint or tone of the living original is preserved through all the varieties of color. Thus the identification of any bird, flower, moth, etc., is easy, and its classification becomes a matter of the utmost simplicity, an advantage of inestimable value to the student or general lover of nature hitherto per- plexed and discouraged by old- fashioned so-called "; This is the first time a systematic effort has been made to bring the read- er into an intimate knowledge, free from fanciful invention, of the lower world. The difficulties of photograph- ing wild animals in their native en- vironment, birds on their nests, and timid creatures in their hidings, are sometimes insuperable; but the success that rewarded the fatigues and hard- ships of tne makers of the Nature Library, and which is. attested throughout the pages of the ten beauti- ful volumes, makes this set of books not only unrivaled, but absolutely unique in the field. Besides the 450 half-tones from. COV/VTRY LIFE ! IN AMERICA DOVBLEDAYPAGE&CO ? YORK J THE WORLDS WORK ? s u p e r 3 v o uy m e: s photographs taken especially for this work in all regions of the country, and the 300 extraordinary and remarkably lifelike color plates, there are about 1,500 text-cuts, such as are usually re
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