The Birds of Derbyshire
- Publisher : Bemrose & Sons
- Published In : London
- Illustrations : 5 photographic plates, text fig, folding map
Description:
Annotated, with numerous additions, by A.S. Hutchinson. First edition. Corrigenda slip tipped in at front. Frederick Whitlock (1850-1953), was an English ornithologist and oologist. He started work as a bank cashier near Nottingham, and later fled to Australia after robbing the safe! Following his subsequent arrest and conviction in England, he returned to Western Australia, and is noted for his many expeditions to remote areas to study and collect birds and their eggs.
Mullens & Swann p. 648.
Condition
8vo, orig. cloth, slightly rubbed, gilt title to front board and spine, patterned endpapers. Foxing to plates, tissue guards and facing pages; short tear to folding map, neatly repaired. Vg.
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