The Book of Baby Birds
- 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.
You may also like...
The Last of its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of
Pálsson, G.
Price £16.50
(Save £5.50)
Identification Atlas of the Continental Birds of Southwestern Europe
Blasco-Zumeta, J.; Heinze, G.-M.
Price £84.99
A key for the identification of domestic bird bones in Europe: Galliformes and
Tomek, T.; Bochenski, Z.M.
Price £54.00
