The Vertebrate Animals of Leicestershire and Rutland
- Collection : A fine ornithological and natural history library
- Publisher : Midland Educational Company
- Published In : Birmingham and Leice
- Illustrations : col map, 4 plates (1 fully + 1 partly hand-col), folding table
Description:
Only 300 copies printed (Author's Preface). Lithographic plates by the author. This work arose out of a series of papers published on the vertebrates of Leicestershire by Browne in the Zoologist (1885-1886).
Mullens & Swann p. 99.
Condition
Large 8vo (260x190mm), orig. brown cloth, rebacked retaining orig. faded backstrip, rubbed to extremities, gilt title to spine and front board, top edge gilt. Paper slightly browned. Foxing to endpapers and occasionally elsewhere. Good. Ownership signature of one of the original subscribers, British ornithologist, Henry Saunderson Davenport (1853-1931), with a few of his neat annotations to the text.
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