Sea Terns or Sea Swallows their habits, language, arrival and departure

Description:

Preface states 'To ensure these observations being original and adequate we have been at pains to spend many consecutive hours, days and even weeks in hide and hut in various terneries closely watching and immediately recording, feeling that only by so doing could a complete picture be obtained of the life of the Terns'.

Condition

8vo, orig. cloth. Vg in worn/torn d/w (in removable protective cover). Some light foxing, mostly to fore-edge. From the library of Michael Bryant, Hampshire ornithologist, with his bookplate, also signature of British ornithologist P.A. Rayfield.