Complete Field Guide to American Wildlife - 1959

"This superb handbook for the outdoors provides, at last, and authoritative guide to all principal forms of wildlife in one single easy-to-use volume. Here you can find every one of the species of birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians, food and game fishes, and the familiar seashore life that occur regularly in the United States and Canada, east of the Rockies and north of the Carolinas and Oklahoma. More than 2,000 illustrations and maps were designed especially for this book. They present over 700 species in full color, plus some 800 in black and white (bird watchers will particularly welcome the illustrations of eggs along with the pictures of birds). The maps, each conveniently located near the written description of the subject, show at a glance the range of particular animal in summer, in winter, or around the year. This is a book to be used anywhere outdoors --- by the youngster making his first delighted discoveries of the natural world, by the adult interested in natural history, by the scientists seeking convenient reference to a great variety of living forms." - Complete Field Guide to American Wildlife: East, Central, & North - Henry Hill Collins, Jr. Published 1959, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York Hardcover. Approx. 5x7.5in. 683pp. Dustjacket is pretty beat up with lots of wear and tear. Book itself is in good vintage shape. Some fading along the board edges. Previous owner's name written on front page.