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Birds of Alvecote Pools With a list of wild plants mainly 1946-1955

by Arnold, G.A.; Arnold, M.A. (Eds)

Collection : A fine ornithological and natural history library
Publisher : Privately printed
Published In : Alvecote

Description:

Duplicated typescript report. Alvecote Pools is a series of shallow pools along the River Anker, Warwickshire. Coal was mined in this area between 1848 and 1965 resulting in subsidence and flooding that formed a complex habitat, and is now an important site for water birds.

Condition

Sm. 4to (257x203mm), cloth, gt. Light foxing to endpapers. Vg. With the bookplate of British ornithologist C. Antony Norris (1917-2005) to endpaper, and a tipped in letter addressed to Norris from Maurice Arnold.