{"id":8801,"date":"2009-12-04T12:55:41","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T19:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=8801"},"modified":"2021-10-01T08:57:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T15:57:14","slug":"featured-t-d-a-cockerell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/featured-t-d-a-cockerell\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured: T. D. A Cockerell"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"cockrell3\"Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (1866-1948) was an American Zoologist. <\/span>He was author of more than 2200 articles in scientific publications, and some 1700 additional authored works, including treatises on social reform and education. He was one of the most prolific taxonomists<\/span> in history, publishing descriptions of over 9,000 species and genera<\/span> of insects alone, some 6,400 of which were bees, and some 1,000 mollusks, arachnids, fungi<\/span>, mammals, fish and plants. in 1904 he became lecturer on entomology and in 1906 professor of systematic zoology, at the University of Colorado. Even after retiring from the university, Cockerell pursued his interest in the natural history of all organisms, and continued to publish numerous notes and articles until his death at his home in 1948.<\/p>\n

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Description:<\/strong> Hard bound in dark green cloth over boards with titles in black. No dust jacket. 558 pages + index. Illustrated edition. Orange and black “yin\/yang” to front board and spine edge. INSCRIBED AT LENGTH BY BOTH T. D. A. COCKERELL AND HIS WIFE W. P. COCKERELL<\/span> on the front free endpage. Previous owners name and Colorado address to front fixed endpage and title page. ORIGINAL POEM BY T. D. A. COCKERELL<\/span> to front free endpage. HAND SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH <\/span>laid in.  Some minor wear to boards, otherwise very good. A sound copy with a warm inscription. SCARCE!<\/p>\n

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Bookseller Inventory #<\/strong> 23004<\/p>\n

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Zoology<\/strong>
\nCockerell, T. D. A.<\/em><\/p>\n

Publisher: <\/strong>World Book Company
\nPublication Date: <\/strong><\/strong>1922
\nBinding: <\/strong><\/strong>Hard Bound
\nDust Jacket Condition: <\/strong><\/strong>No dust jacket
\nBook Condition: <\/strong><\/strong>Good<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (1866-1948) was an American Zoologist. He was author of more than 2200 articles in scientific publications, and some 1700 additional authored works, including treatises on social reform and education. He was one of the most prolific taxonomists in history, publishing descriptions of over 9,000 species and genera of insects alone, some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently-sold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8801"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15196,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8801\/revisions\/15196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}