The Book of Baby Birds
- Collection : A fine ornithological and natural history library
- Publisher : Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press
- Published In : London
- Illustrations : 19 col plates
Description:
Reprint (originally published 1912). A charming book on the chicks and juveniles of various birds, with attractive mounted plates by Edward Julius Detmold (1883-1957), a prolific British illustrator who did extensive work in watercolour and etchings for natural history works. Descriptions by Mrs Thomas Hardy (Florence E. Dugdale) (1879-1937), second wife of novelist Thomas Hardy and author of several children's books.
Condition
4to (280x233mm), orig. cloth spine, paper covered boards, slightly marked, circular pictorial onlay to front board. Endpapers browned and lightly foxed. Small contemporary gift inscription to endpaper. Good.
Other titles from the collection : A fine ornithological and natural history library
Click to view all titles in this collection...
Eggs of British Birds, with an Account of their Breeding-Habits. Limicolae
Poynting, F.
Price £350.00
You may also like...
A Photographic Guide to Small Mammal Bones in Barn Owl Pellets
Ramsey, S.J.; Crawley, D.
Price £20.00
The North Sea Bird Club 1979-2019: Birds, bats and beasties - forty years of
Thorpe, A. (Ed.)
Price £23.50