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CHAPMAN, Frank M. Camps and cruises of an ornithologist. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1908.Original green cloth with a pictorial decoration of a flamingo on the upper cover, top edge gilt. With coloured frontispiece and 250 photographic plates and illustrations. XVI,432 pp. First edition. - Frank Michler Chapman (1864 - 1945) was an American ornithologist and pioneering writer of field guides. There are chapters on birds in the Atlantic coast islands of Gardiner's Island and Cobbs Island, of Florida, Bahamas, California, and Western-Canada. - A fine copy of a profusely illustrated study. [Boeknr.: 36651 ]