Author: E. C. Stuart Baker
Title: The Indian Ducks and Their Allies
Description: London, The Bombay Natural History Society, 1908. First edition. Leather. A very neat illustrated first edition of this study on Indian ducks. First edition. Illustrated throughout with frontispiece and thirty coloured plates. Collated complete. A study of Indian ducks and the birds around them, reprinted from the Bombay Natural History Society's journals with additions and corrections to previous work. Written by Edward Charles Stuart Baker, a British ornithologist and police officer who catalogued the birds of India and produced the second edition of Fauna of British India which included the introduction of trinomial nomenclature. In the original half morocco binding with green cloth boards. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities and minor discolouration to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light scattered spotting to the first and last few pages. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

Keywords: Ducks India Baker India None


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