A Field Guide To Western Birds.

PETERSON, Roger Tory.

Item Number: 117329

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941.

First edition of this work by the famed ornithologist. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with 740 illustrations. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.

Roger Tory Peterson, one of the world's greatest naturalists, received every major award for ornithology, natural science, and conservation as well as numerous honorary degrees, medals, and citations, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Peterson Identification System has been called the greatest invention since binoculars. “Many people have noted that Peterson changed the world because he made nature accessible to the general public. Before his Guide, bird watching was the province of the few, often done with bird remains in hand” (Eirik A.T. Blom).