Woodruff, Timothy L.; Middleton, DeWitt C.; Babcock, Charles H. Seventh Report of the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of the State of New York. Albany, New York: J. B. Lyon Company, State Printers, 1902. First Edition. [12510]
Teal cloth with gilt titles to front and spine, binding shows soil and spotting and is edge-worn with bumped corners, 11 1/2 x 9 inches. 534 pp. of text with many b/w & color plates, including Denton fish plates (see list below). Silverfish damage in the top margin of the last several leaves, but the plates are fine unless otherwise noted below. There is a diagonal crease at the bottom of the first several leaves, including on the color moose plate and the color Wapiti, or Elk plate. There are 36 full plates in colors and hundreds of b/w plates and text illustrations. Good. Hardcover.
This series is Plum 2043.
Color plates in this volume:
The Moose, and The Wapiti or Elk, both by Oliver Kemp. These both have a crease at the bottom.
The Adirondack Deer, by Oliver Kemp. Fine.
Red Tailed & Cooper's Hawk;
Screech Owl;
Black-billed Cuckoo & Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker;
Pileated & Downy Woodpecker;
Nighthawk & Whip-Poor-Will;
Kingbird & Phoebe;
Tree Sparrow & Snowflake;
Cedar Waxwing & Red-Eyed Vireo;
Black and White Warbler & American Redstart;
Chickadee & White-Breasted Nuthatch; Kinglets & Brown Creeper; Wood Thrush & Hermit Thrush.
The 12 color bird plates above are by Louis Agassiz Fuertes and are all in fine condition.
8 color plates of leaves. All fine condition.
Adirondack Black Bear, by Oliver Kemp. Fine.
Fish plates: Hickory Shad, Tahoe Trout, Banded Pickerel; Mascalonge; Long Eared Sunfish; Sea Bass; Red Snapper; Scup, Porgy. These gorgeous chromolithograph fish plates, 8 in number, were created by Sherman Foote Denton.
Insects: 3 color plates by L. H. Joutel. Very good, with the last having some foxing.
One of the desirable series of Adirondack-focused volumes published by the State near the turn of the century.
Includes forestry reports on the Adirondack and Catskill mountains, as well as account of forest fires, the Adirondack Park, elk and deer, moose, tree planting, forest surveying, &c. There are also reports on the St. Lawrence Reservation, hatcheries, fish distribution, chestnut trees, birds, &c.
