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Louis Agassiz Fuertes
Post 1930 publications

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Louis Agassiz Fuertes

- book illust. 1897 to 1930
- book illust. 1931 to present
- books about Fuertes
- contributions to Bird-Lore

Bird art

Bird art

A Spicing of Birds

Poems By Emily Dickinson

Illustrations By Early Masters Of Bird Art

Illustrations by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Alexander Wilson, John H. Hall, Allan brooks, Robert Ridgway, John James Audubon, Mark Catesby, Cordelia J. Stanwood

Wesleyan University Press

2010

"A Spicing of Birds is a unique and beautifully illustrated anthology, pairing poems from one of America's most revered poets with evocative classic ornithological art. Emily Dickinson had a great love of birds—in her collected poems, birds are mentioned 222 times, sometimes as the core inspiration of the poem. However, in existing anthologies of Dickinson's work, little acknowledgment is made of her close connection to birds. This book contains thirty-seven of Dickinson's poems featuring birds common to New England. Many lesser-known poems are brought to light, renewing our appreciation for Dickinson's work."

Books on Hawks and Owls: An Annotated Bibliography

Richard R. Olendorff, Dean Amadon, and Saul Frank

Proceedings Volume 6, Number 2

Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology

1995

89 pages.

Thoreau on Birds: Notes on New England Birds from the Journals of Henry David Thoreau

Editor: Francis H. Allen

Illustrations: Louis Agassiz Fuertes and others

Beacon Press

1993

Birds of John Burroughs: A Great Naturalist's Meditations and Essays on Bird Watching

John Burroughs

Editor: Jack Kligerman

Overlook Press

1988

A World of Watchers

Joseph Kastner

Alfred Knopf

1986

Subtitled "An Informal History of the American Passion for Birds - From Its Scientific Beginnings to the Great Birding Boom of Today."

A Celebration of Birds: The Life and Art of Louis Agassiz Fuertes

Robert McCracken Peck

Foreword: Thomas Peter Bennett

Walker & Co / Collins

1982

A biography of L.A. Fuertes and celebration of his work. Written to coincide with a major exhibition in 1981. 178 pages with many colour and black and white reproductions of Fuertes work.

"The book was published to accompany a major exhibit of Fuertes' work, prepared of the auspices of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. This is the most comprehensive book to date to examine the essence of Fuertes' genius; to illustrate how he worked as an artist, explorer, and natural scientist; and to assess his enormous influence in the worlds of fine art, ornithology, and birdwatching, a pursuit to which his work did so much to popularize."

A Fuertes Portfolio of Texas Birds

The Color Plates from the First Edition of The Bird Life of Texas

Editor: Edgar B. Kincaid University of Texas Press 1977

36 unbound colour plates boxed in a slipcase. This is a limited edition portfolio of plates that were part of Bird Life of Texas by Harry C. Oberholser.

The Birds Of John Burroughs: Keeping A Sharp Lookout

Editor: Jack Kligerman

Illustrations: Louis Agassiz Fuertes and others

Hawthorn Books

1976

Bird Life of Texas

Harry C. Oberholser

Corrie Herring Hooks Series

University of Texas Press

1975

Two volumes in a slipcase.

American Wildlife Painting

Martina R. Norelli

1975

Focusses on Audubon, Catesby, Fuertes, Heade, Thayer and Wilson. 224 pages with many colour and black and white illustrations.

Louis Agassiz Fuertes & The Singular Beauty Of Birds

Editor: Frederick George Marcham

Introduction: Roger Tory Peterson

Haper & Row

1971

230 pages with 60 full page colour plates and many black and white sketches. Includes a biographical essay and selections from Fuertes letters.

The Wild Turkey and its Management

Editor: Oliver H. Hewitt

The Wildlife Society

1967

580 pages with papers on taxonomy, biology, ecology, management, and hunting. Includes an extensive bibliography.

The Whooping Crane: The Bird That Defies Extinction

Faith McNulty

E.P.Dutton & Co

1966

Birds Of Maryland And The District Of Columbia

Robert E. Stewart and Chandler S. Robbins

69 Distribution maps

North American Fauna, Number 62

Fish And Wildlife Service

US Department Of The Interior

1959

From the introduction:

Birds hold an important position in our economy and culture, their recreational value is shared by the gunner, the photographer, and an increasing number of bird students who both singly and in organized parties take frequent trips to make Christmas-season or spring counts, to record the progress of migration, or to seek rare species. If the amount of money spent anually for such items as field clothes, gasoline, food, lodging, guns, shells, boats, binoculars, telescopes, cameras, film, and bridge tolls by persons in quest of birds for one purpose or another were known, the total would doubtless surprise even the most ardent participants. Aside from their recreational and direct economic value, birds have aesthetic appeal to most of our citizens. Countless thousands of people derive daily enjoyment from the sight of birds on their feeding shelves, in their birdbaths, or on their lawns, from hearing their varied songs, or from watching distant flocks of waterfowl by day or hearing their calls by night. The majestic Bald Eagle, which nests throughout our tidewater area, so inspired our ancestors that it was selected as our national emblem, frequent references to other birds in prose and poetry attest to the more subtle influences these creatures have upon our civilization.

Natural History of the Birds of Eastern and Central North America

Edward H. Forbush and John Richard May

Bramhall

1955

554 pages with 97 colour plates.

This is a reprint with a newly designed cover of a book that was first published in 1939. The 1939 volume book was a revised and condensed edition of the three volume Birds of Massachusetts and Other New England States.

Birds in Kansas

Arthur L. Goodrich

Kansas State Board of Agriculture

1946

340 pages with 6 colour plates and many figures in the text.

American Water Birds Also Hawks, Owls And Game Birds

Maitland A. Edey

Random House

1941

Among The Birds In The Grand Canyon Country

Florence Merriam Bailey

US Department Of The Interior / National Park Service

US Government Printing Office

1939

From the introduction:

This account of our summer in camps and cabins of the canyon and its immediate vicinity pictures the bird life as I found it grouped at different levels and in desert or forest setting, where observing visitors may duplicate my experiences. At the lowest level, at Phantom Ranch in the Canyon of the Bright Angel, in May, it was a keen pleasure to welcome the incoming birds on their way north. But my stay was short, and it has remained for bird banders and others interested in detailed routes of migration and stops along the way to add to the number of migrants to be found in spring and fall in different parts of the bottom of the canyon. To my account of birds grouped at other levels and under desert or forest conditions students of ecology should add reliable observations that will increase our scant knowledge of the distribution of plant and animal life in relation to their environment, exhibited in this almost unparalleled gash in the earth's surface, where zonal problems - in the compressed vertical section from the bottom of the canyon to the two rims and on to the top of the San Francisco Mountains - have attained their classical illustration. For the growing number of laymen interested in bird banding and in attracting birds about their homes, the success of the canyon feeding and banding stations and the part played in them and at rain tanks in this arid region may suggest interesting problems to be solved. But whatever one's especial or scientific interest may be in the birds of the canyon country, there is much more. In telling the story of our enriching summer, my hope has been not only that old interests be quickened and the pleasures of the way be enhanced but that to those with seeing eyes and listening ears may come the deeper satisfactions underlying bird study in the inspiring setting of the Grand Canyon

Natural History of the Birds of Eastern and Central North America

Edward H. Forbush and John Richard May

Houghton Mifflin Company

1939

554 pages with 97 colour plates.

This single volume book is a revised and condensed edition of the three volume Birds of Massachusetts and Other New England States. It was subsequently reprinted a number of times.

The Birds Of The Connecticut Valley In Massachusetts

Aaron Clark Bagg and Samuel Atkins Eliot Jr

Illustrations: R.T. Peterson, E.O. Damon and others

The Hampshire Bookshop

1937

From the preface:

"Every wild bird that certainly occurs or has occurred in our area, even though only once or long ago recorded, is in the Table of Contents and the Annotated List given a serial number. There are 301 of these, but 2 (the Heath Hen and Passenger Pigeon) have been exterminated, 5 were exotic game birds introduced only to die out, the last native Wild Turkey was killed in 1851 and several attempted re-introductions have failed, and at least 14 others (see the Statistical Summary at the end of the book) are scarcely more likely to be seen again; so that the active list numbers not over 280. By no means all of these are substantiated by specimens; they are numbered along with those thus validated by reason either of (l) first-hand study of the bird, (2) trust in the experience and ability of the person reporting it, or (3) the relative unmistakability of the bird. Sight-records which we have hesitated to endorse (and sometimes, of course, the line has been very difficult to draw) add about forty unnumbered species or subspecies to the List, ranging from such almost certainties as the Tufted Tit or Bewick's Wren to such an extremely unlikely record (given only because already published in Forbush's Birds of Massachusetts and Other New England Slates), as that of the Golden-cheeked Warbler."

Artist and Naturalist in Ethiopia

Louis Agassiz Fuertes and Wilfred Hudson Osgood

1936

Based on diaries kept by Osgood and Fuertes during the Field Museum Expedition to Ethiopia in 1926. Includes 16 colour plates by Fuertes.

295 American Birds

Color Plates from Bird Portraits in Color by Thomas S. Roberts

1936

92 full page plates by Allan Brooks, George Miksch Sutton, Walter Alois Weber, Francis Lee Jaques, Walter John Breckenridge and Louis Agassiz Fuertes.

The Migration Of North American Birds

Frederick C. Lincoln

Circular No. 363

US Department of Agriculture

1935

From the introduction:

Where do the birds go each fall that have nested in our dooryards and frequented the neighboring woods, hills, and marshes? Will the same ones return again to their former haunts next spring? What dangers do they face on their round-trip flight and in their winter homes? These and other questions on the migratory habits of birds puzzle the minds of many who are interested in the feathered species, whether it be the farmer who profits by their tireless warfare against the weed and insect pests of his crops, the bird student who enjoys an abundance and variety of feathered inhabitants about him, or the hunter who wants a continuation from year to year of the sport of wild-fowling. Lack of information on the subject may mean the loss of an important resource by unconsciously letting it slip from us. Ignorance of the facts may be responsible for inadequate legal protection for such species as may urgently need it. More general knowledge on the subject will aid in the perpetuation of the various migrants, the seasonal habitats of some of which are in grave danger from man's utilization, sometimes unwisely, of the marsh, water, and other areas they formerly frequented.

Bird Portraits In Color

Thomas S. Roberts

1934

Subsequently reprinted a number of times.

92 full page plates by Allan Brooks, George Miksch Sutton, Walter Alois Weber, Francis Lee Jaques, Walter John Breckenridge and Louis Agassiz Fuertes. The plates were originally published in 1932 in the two volume The Birds Of Minnesota.

Birds You Should Know

Thornton W. Burgess

1933

From the foreword:

This book is offered as an introduction to and aid in identification of common land birds and some of the rarer species, together with a few shore and water birds, likely to be encountered east of the Mississippi river. The need of such a volume, small enough to be easily carried in pocket or handbag yet with colored plates accurate in details and colors, has long been felt. The fact that the illustrations are the work of the late Louis Agassiz Fuertes is sufficient guarantee of their accuracy. The text seeks to present merely the salient facts to supplement the drawings as an aid to immediate and positive identification that you may know your birds when you see them."

Autobiography of a Bird Lover

Frank M. Chapman

D. Appleton & Company

1933

Portraits of New England Birds

Drawn In Color By Louis Agassiz Fuertes And Allan Brooks

The Commonwealth Of Massachusetts

1932

100 pages with 92 full page colour plates by Fuertes (68 plates) and Brooks (24 plates). The plates were originally published in the 3 volume For Birds Of Massachusetts And Other New England States by Edward Howe Forbush.

The Birds Of Minnesota

Thomas S. Roberts

The University Of Minnesota Press

1932

A two volume publication.

Approximately 1500 pages with 92 color plates and many b/w illustrations in the text.

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