Author: J. A. Harvie-Brown
Title: A Fauna of the Tay Basin and Strathmore
Description: Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1906 . First edition. Cloth. A bright copy of the first edition of Scottish ornithologist and naturalist John Alexander Harvie-Brown's study of the fauna of Strathmore. The first edition of this work, with a photographic title page plate, twenty plates, and a folding colour map. Collated, complete.A charming study of the vertebrate fauna of Scotland, with chapters on various glens and lochs, and studies of reptiles, mammals, wild birds, and starlings.With the bookplate of zoologist and author William Brundson Yapp to the front pastedown. Yapp worked as a senior lecturer in zoology at the University of Birmingham.With two pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to spine head and tail, otherwise externally excellent. Front hinge strained, but holding firm. Bookplate to front pastedown. Spotting to fore edge of text block. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

Keywords: fauna scotland ornithology brundson yapp scotland Not Stated


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