Philadelphia The John C. Winston Company., 1930 FIRST Limited Edition, #165, Signed by Gifford Pinchot to prelim page, under printed ”with the Regards and Best Wishes of”. Near FINE/no dj. solidly bound. tall 8 vo, 500 pp. – Illustrated Map end papers. Deep blue cloth boards and spine, gilt illustration to upper part of front board, gilt title and author to front board and spine. Gilt in nice bright condition. Beautifully illustrated throughout with over 250 reproductions of photographs taken on the cruise and with wood engravings (including maps of Galapagos Islands, Marquesas Islands, and Tuamotu Archipelago). *** After Pinchot’s first term as Govenor of Pennsylvania, the Pinchots took a seven-month cruise of the South Seas, on 148-foot three-masted schooner called the Schooner Mary Pinchot. Pinchot, author of several books, wrote one about the voyage, during which the scientists aboard the ex-governor’s schooner found a new species of fish, which they named binthosema pinchoti. *** Gifford Pichot, (1865-1946)- America’s first professionally trained forester, rose to national prominence as a conservationist and political progressive under the patronage of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was elected Governor of Pennsylvania two times.***

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