SZTOLCMAN - PERU vol. 1-2 [complete in 2 vols.] ed.

ARTOLCMAN Jan

PERU vol. 1-2 [complete in 1vol.]

Published by Gebethner and Wolff, Warsaw-Krakow 1912, pp [4],267; [4], IV, 307; 1k. folding map; format 17x26 cm

HARD CLOTH BINDING OF THE PERIOD [?], GILT TITLEPAGE ON THE SPINE

Description of a natural history expedition through Peru - from the Amazonian forest, through the deserts of the central part of the country, to northern Chile - made in the second half of the 1870s by Jan Sztolcman (1854-1928), zoologist, ornithologist, traveler and hunter, hunting and conservation activist. It contains a sketch of the nature of this region of South America and the characters and customs of the animals that live there.

Sztolcman made numerous scientific expeditions, mainly ornithological, including to Peru (1875-81), Ecuador (1882-84); from 1887 he was director of the Zool Museum. Branicki Museum in Warsaw, and after merging with Gabinet Zool. (1919) - deputy director of the State. Zool. museum; activist in hunting and nature protection, since 1924 lectured on hunting at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences; founder (1899) and editor of "Łowcy Polski"; initiator of international protection of the European bison; author of 367 scientific and popular science publications, including Ornitologia łowiecka (1905), Łowiectwo (1920), Żubr, its history, customs and future (1926).

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