Author: William B. FettersPublisher:
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Maximilian Leech (1763-1815) of Blockley and Kingsessing
Author: William B. FettersPublisher:
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Alexander Wilson
Author: Edward H. Burtt Jr.Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674073770
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 511
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Audubon was not the father of American ornithology. That honorific belongs to Alexander Wilson, whose encyclopedic American Ornithology established a distinctive approach that emphasized the observation of live birds. In the first full-length study to reproduce all of Wilson’s unpublished drawings for the nine-volume Ornithology, Edward Burtt and William Davis illustrate Wilson’s pioneering and, today, underappreciated achievement as the first ornithologist to describe the birds of the North American wilderness. Abandoning early ambitions to become a poet in the mold of his countryman Robert Burns, Wilson emigrated from Scotland to settle near Philadelphia, where the botanist William Bartram encouraged his proclivity for art and natural history. Wilson traveled 12,000 miles on foot, on horseback, in a rowboat, and by stage and ship, establishing a network of observers along the way. He wrote hundreds of accounts of indigenous birds, discovered many new species, and sketched the behavior and ecology of each species he encountered. Drawing on their expertise in both science and art, Burtt and Davis show how Wilson defied eighteenth-century conventions of biological illustration by striving for realistic depiction of birds in their native habitats. He drew them in poses meant to facilitate identification, making his work the model for modern field guides and an inspiration for Audubon, Spencer Fullerton Baird, and other naturalists who followed. On the bicentennial of his death, this beautifully illustrated volume is a fitting tribute to Alexander Wilson and his unique contributions to ornithology, ecology, and the study of animal behavior.
National Genealogical Society Quarterly
Author: NGS Newsletter
Author: Colonial families of Philadelphia
Author: John W. JordanPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5880233553
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 958
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“The” Sandy Foundation Shaken
Author: William PennThe Visitation of Shropshire, Taken in the Year 1623 by Robert Tresswell, Somerset Herald, and Augustine Vincent, Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms, Marshals and Deputies to William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms
Author: Robert TreswellPublisher:
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Category : Heraldry
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Records of Rev. John Casper Stoever
Author: Johann Casper StoeverPublisher:
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Category : Church records and registers
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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History of Chester County, Pennsylvania
Author: J. Smith FutheyPublisher:
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Category : Chester County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1250
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Pennsylvania Genealogies
Author: William Henry EglePublisher:
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Category : German Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 816
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