Author: Baikie, W.B.; Heddle, Robert
Title: Historia Naturalis Orcadensis. Zoology. Part I. Being a Catalogue of the Mammalia and Birds Hitherto observed in the Orkney Islands
Description: J. and W. Paterson 1848 104, . . HB. 8vo, cont. half calf, joints rubbed, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt. Vg. Bookplate of wealthy American amateur ornithologist, John Eliot Thayer (1862-1928).. Part I (all published). Very scarce. Printed slip, 'More Important Corrections, 1856. - R.H.' tipped in at p. iii. A manuscript list of Errata is also loosely inserted.Mullens & Swann p. 36..

Keywords: Birds; Ornithology; Mammals; Orkney Islands; Scotland; Britain


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