Purcell captures the diverse beauty, quirkiness and allure of eggs and the remarkable resourcefulness of birds, focusing on the intricacy of nests and the aesthetic perfection of bird eggs.--Kurt Shaw, "Pittsburgh Tribune Review."
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Purcell captures the diverse beauty, quirkiness and allure of eggs and the remarkable resourcefulness of birds, focusing on the intricacy of nests and the aesthetic perfection of bird eggs.--Kurt Shaw, "Pittsburgh Tribune Review."
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Seller's Description:
Missing Dust Cover-Pages and hard cover are intact. Used book in good conditions. Limited notes and highlighting may be present. May show signs of normal shelf wear and bends on corners and edges. Item may be missing CDs or access codes. Ships directly from Amazon.
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The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact (including the dust cover, if applicable). Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 222 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Illustrations, color, Frontispiece. Audience: General/trade. Beautiful copy of this stunning title. Content is clean and unmarked. Dust Jacket is in fine condition with no cracks or chipping of any kind. Dust Jacket has been preserved in mylar.
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Good in Good jacket. Top and bottom edges of jacket are bumped, and top edge has two 1/4-inch aesthetic tears. Spine is slightly shaken. Inside is clean, bright, and unmarked.
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Used-Very Good. The beauty of the robin's egg is not lost on the child who discovers the nest, nor on the collector of nature's marvels. Such instances of wonder find fitting expression in the photographs of Rosamond Purcell, whose work captures the intricacy of nests and the aesthetic perfection of bird eggs. Mining the ornithological treasures of the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology, Purcell produces pictures as lovely and various as the artifacts she photographs. The dusky blue egg of an emu becomes a planet. A woodpecker's nest bears an uncanny resemblance to a wooden shoe. A resourceful rock dove weaves together scrap metal and spent fireworks. A dreamscape of dancing monkeys emerges from the calligraphic markings of a murre egg. Alongside Purcell's photographs, Linnea Hall and René Corado offer an engaging history of egg collecting, the provenance of the specimens in the photographs, and the biology, conservation, and ecology of the birds that produced them. They highlight the scientific value that eggs and nest hold for understanding and conserving birds in the wild, as well as the aesthetic charge they carry for us. How has evolution shaped the egg or directed the design of the nest? How do the photographs convey such infinitesimal and yet momentous happenstance? The objects in Egg & Nest are specimens of natural history, and in Purcell's renderings, they are also the most natural art. Purcell captures the diverse beauty, quirkiness and allure of eggs and the remarkable resourcefulness of birds, focusing on the intricacy of nests and the aesthetic perfection of bird eggs. --Kurt Shaw, 'Pittsburgh Tribune Review. ' BEAUTIFUL COPY! ! ! Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks. wrapped in complimentary Brodart dust jacket protector...
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Fine/Like new gift quality copy. Tight binding, Clean, bright unmarked pages. Unblemished DJ. Beautiful color photos of bird eggs and nests by renowned nature photographer, along with "an engaging history egg collecting, the provenance of the specimens in the photos, and the biology, conservation and ecology of the birds that produced them."
