The Birds of Cornwall and the Scilly Islands

Description:

With an Introduction, Appendix, and a Brief Memoir of the Author by James Edmund Harting. First edition. Published following the author's death - edited and brought together from his notes by Harting. Edward Hearle Rodd (1810-1880) was a Cornish solicitor and keen ornithologist.

Condition

8vo, orig. brown cloth, gilt title to spine, black-ruled border and central design to upper board; cloth lightly rubbed. Some foxing to preliminaries and at end, occasional light spotting elsewhere. Short tear to inner corner of folding map, neatly repaired. One marginal ink annotation to Introduction. Small circular paper label and bookseller's blind stamp to endpaper. Very good.