Observations on the Fauna of Norfolk, and more particularly on the District of the Broads

Description:

Reissue of the first edition (1845). The natural history of Norfolk (Mammalia, Birds, River Fishes), with sections on Angling, Decoys, Falconry. The two plates illustrate decoys.

Freeman 2347.

Condition

8vo, recased in near cont. half leather, some wear to corners, sympathetic new spine with gilt rules and leather title piece, cont. marbled boards. Some foxing/spotting particularly to map and plates; browning to lower inner corner of pages in rear half of text. Good. Signature of R. Fielding Harmer to top of title page. Angling-themed bookplate of Henry Alden Sherwin (1842-1916), co-founder of the Sherwin-Williams Company, in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1866. His large private library of books on fishing was sold at auction in 1946, 30 years after his death.