ANTIQUE 1891 NUTTALL'S ORNITHOLOGY Montague Chamberlain BIRDS Old South Church

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Add us to your Favorite Sellers List so you don't miss out on our Great Sales !! (we will be posting many rare collectible books over the next several weeks, so please keep coming back and checking out our other items)2 Volume SetA POPULAR HANDBOOK OF THE ORNITHOLOGY OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA Based on Nuttall's Manualby : Montague Chamberlain1891Decorative Antique Book Great for Home Decor / Shelf DisplayIllustratedPublished By : Little, Brown and Company BostonBook Lot Volume I : LAND BIRDS Volume II : GAME AND WATER BIRDSEx - Church Library Books Bookplate of THE GORDON LIBRARY OLD SOUTH CHURCHCondition : For Both Books: These books have fading, rubbing, scuffing, stains/dirtiness, age toning, fraying, top and bottom of spine have small tears and fraying, corner bumps, some pages have library markings, bindings are loose and some pages starting to separate at gutter Vol 1 - 3 pages (half title page to frontispiece) have separated but are with the books. It has a faded sticker at bottom of spine, Book plate from previous owner Gordon Library, Old South church on the inside front cover of Vol 1 and on the inside front and back cover of volume 2Please look at all of the Pictures as sometimes it is possible we may have missed something. --------------------------------------------------------Montague Chamberlain (April 5, 184 4 - February 10, 1924) was a Canadian-American businessman, naturalist , and ethnographer .Chamberlain was born in St. John , New Brunswick , Canada . He spent the first few decades of his life as a bookkeeper and later manager of a grocery company in St. John. In his mid-twenties, he also became a dedicated amateur ornithologist. In 1883 he co-founded the American Ornithologists' Union , which today stakes its claim as "the oldest and largest organization in the New World devoted to the scientific study of birds." In 1888 Chamberlain became a resident member and editor for the Nuttall Ornithological Club , and a founding member of the American Ornithologists' Union . After quitting the grocery business, he became the assistant secretary of the Harvard Corporation in 1889 and the secretary of the Lawrence Scientific School in 1893.Chamberlain was married at the age of 63, to Anna Sartoris Prout of Petersburg, Virginia . Their marriage lasted six years before Anna died.Chamberlain died in Boston , Massachusetts , United States , in 1924. The same year, Theodore Sherman Palmer , secretary of the American Ornithologists' Union, wrote an obituary of Chamberlain in The Auk . [3] Percy Algernon Taverner later published an obituary of Chamberlain in Canadian Field-Naturalist . Palmer's obituary includes a lament that Chamberlain made no direct contributions to ornithology during the last twenty years of his life.He was a frequent contributor to The Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club , The Auk (of which he was also a founding associate editor [5] ), and Bulletin of the Natural History Society of New Brunswick , the last of which published his A Catalogue of the Birds of New Brunswick: With brief notes relating to their migrations, breeding, relative abundance, etc. in 1882. He also authored the following books:A Catalogue of Canadian Birds , 1887 Birds of Greenland , 1889 The Church Army , Damrell and Upham, 1897 Maliseet Vocabulary , Harvard Cooperative Society , 1899 The Penobscot Indians , 1899Chamberlain's interest in the Native Americans grew after spending time at the Penobscot haven of Indian Island in Maine , where he helped start a museum. He maintained that a Penobscot had saved his grandfather's life. Chamberlain also became familiar with the nearby and related Passamaquoddy and Maliseet , leading to his drafting of the first significant English-Maliseet dictionary. Although Maliseet is still spoken today by around 1,500 people, Maliseet Vocabulary has become a valuable source on the Maliseet language, as the first published, substantial characterization of the language, recorded at a relatively early... read more

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