Lot (6) Fish Forest Game New York Adirondacks 1895 96 98 1901 03 07 08 09 Denton

Description: A massive collection of Rare Annual Reports on the state of the New York Fisheries, Game Preserves' and Forest Parks. Plus other books relating to The Adirondack Forest Commission. An extremely rare collection includes dozens of Denton Chromolithograph Fish Prints along with other plates and illustrations a treasure trove of early Adirondack park materials. State of New York. Annual Report of the Forest Commission For the Year 1893 Vol. I OnlyVERY GOOD CONDITION INCLUDES ONE MAP MISSING THREE.(SEE PHOTO) Adirondack Map 1898State of New York Forest and Game CommissionPublished by State of New York, 1898INCOMPLETE MISSING MAPS(SEE PHOTO) Commissioners Of Fisheries, Game, and Forest Of The State Of New York First Annual Report for 1895 VERY GOOD CONDITION Stamp From previous owner only Flaw. Commissioners Of Fisheries, Game, and Forest Of The State Of New York Second Annual Report for 1896 VERY GOOD CONDITION Stamp From previous owner only Flaw. Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York. Fourth Annual Report of the 1898 GOOD CONDITION Some wear to the covers spine slight looseness. Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York.Seventh Annual Report of the 1901 VERY GOOD CONDITION Ex-Library with Stamps form an education center throughout. FOOD AND GAME FISHES OF NEW YORK: NOTES ON THEIR COMMON NAMES, DISTRIBUTION, HABITS AND MODE OF CAPTURE Bean, Tarleton H.Published by State of New York Forest, Fish and Game Commission, Albany, 1903 VERY GOOD CONDITION Previous owner stamps and some wear to the covers. Annual Reports of the Forest, Fish and Game Commissioner of the State of New York for 1907-1908-1909Published by State of New York., Albany, 1910 VERY GOOD CONDITION Ex-Library with Stamps form an education center throughout. Sherman Foote Denton (September 24, 1856 – June 24, 1937) was an American naturalist, illustrator, specimen collector, inventor, writer, and entrepreneur. Along with his brothers Shelley Wright and Robert Winsford, he started Denton Brothers Butterflies Company, which sold mounted butterfly specimens. Individual butterflies were mounted on plaster under a glass frame, a technique that he patented and known as "Denton mounts". Early life Poster for William Denton's lectures made by Sherman, c. 1870 US Patent 681110A, 1901Denton was born in Dayton, Ohio, the first son of Elizabeth M. née Foote (1826–1916) and William Denton (1823–1883) a geologist who became a promoter of psychic seeing abilities that he claimed his wife possessed in strong measure but one that existed in everyone.[1] The family interest in natural history was inculcated in the children early. Sherman and his brother Shelley travelled with their father who gave lectures around the world. William claimed that Sherman could draw the evolutionary history of birds through psychic abilities. Sherman participated in experiments by his father who claimed that rocks and other inanimate objects held a photographic record that sensitive people could see. Sherman drew several birds that he claimed to be able to see based on an examination of fossil tracks from Connecticut.[1] The senior Denton died from fever in 1883 while on a tour in Papua New Guinea. The two sons collected natural history specimens extensively on the three year tour.[2] CareerSherman Denton returned home and then joined the US Fish Commission working as an artist who also worked on the collection and mounting of specimens. He developed a patented technique for life-like mounting and prior to preparing them, he would produce careful watercolor paintings. His careful illustrations were praised for their accuracy.[2] His illustrations included those of the now extinct Salvelinus agassizi under the name of "Canadian Red Trout".[3] A subspecies of cuckoo-shrike Lalage leucomela insulicola was described by W.E. Clyde Todd on the basis of specimens collected by the Denton brothers in the Carnegie Museum.[4] Sherman invented and patented, in 1901, the mounting of lepidopteran specimens on a white plaster tablet under glass instead of the traditional pinning. Along with his brother, he sold numerous mounted specimens made by the Denton Brothers Company in Wellesley. He also produced numerous butterfly scale prints (also called lepidochromes).[5] The two volume book As Nature Shows Them (1900) produced in a limited 500 copies made use of actual butterfly and moth wing transfers for the colored plates, with the body and legs hand-painted.[6] Denton also took an interest in pearls, made a large collection of freshwater pearls, and published a book on pearls in 1916. His brother Shelley worked as a curator of the bird collections at Cambridge, Massachusetts around 1887 and catalogued the collections of William Brewster (1851–1919).[7] DeathDenton died at his Wellesley farm and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery. The street in Wellesley where the family lived was later renamed as Denton Road. Denton mounts of nearly 1400 specimens were gifted by their heirs to the Wellesley Historical Society. Vladimir Nabokov wrote about his own interest in butterflies and noted that his aunts would gift him "ridiculous presents such as Denton mounts of resplendent but really quite ordinary insects." In 1941, Nabokov made a visit to the collections held at 11 Denton Road and commented that they were "marvellous specimens, but with ... catastrophic labels and without localities

Price: 1999.99 USD

Location: Utica, New York

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