Author: T. A. Coward
Title: The Birds of the British Isles and Their Eggs
Description: London, Frederick Warne and Co. 1934-1936. Cloth. A complete three volume set of this brightly illustrated work on the birds of the British Isles. Complete in three volumes. A detailed study on the birds of the British Isles and their eggs, with keys to identifying individual species. Written by Thomas Alfred Coward, an English ornithologist and an amateur astronomer. Illustrated by Archibald Thorburn, a Scottish artist who specialised in wildlife, Richard Kearton, a British naturalist and one of the world's earliest wildlife photographers along with his brother, and Emma Louisa Turner, an English ornithologist and pioneering bird photographer. First Series, 1936. Fifth edition. Comprising families Corvidae to Sulidae. Illustrated with two hundred and forty-two colour images and seventy-eight photographic plates. Collated complete. Second Series, 1936. Sixth edition. Comprising families Anatidae to Tetradonidae. Illustrated with two hundred and thirteen colour images and sixty-nine photographic plates. Collated complete. Third Series, 1934. Second edition reprinted with a general index. Comprising the migration and habits and observations on our rarer visitants. Illustrated with sixty-eight colour images and sixty-eight photographic plates. Collated complete. In the original full brown cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. The odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small spot. Minor age toning to the endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: Archibald Thorburn; Richard Kearton; E. L. Turner. Very Good .
Keywords: Birds British Eggs Coward British Thorburn Archibald Thorburn; Richard Kearton; E. L. Turner
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Title: The Birds of the British Isles and Their Eggs
Description: London, Frederick Warne and Co. 1934-1936. Cloth. A complete three volume set of this brightly illustrated work on the birds of the British Isles. Complete in three volumes. A detailed study on the birds of the British Isles and their eggs, with keys to identifying individual species. Written by Thomas Alfred Coward, an English ornithologist and an amateur astronomer. Illustrated by Archibald Thorburn, a Scottish artist who specialised in wildlife, Richard Kearton, a British naturalist and one of the world's earliest wildlife photographers along with his brother, and Emma Louisa Turner, an English ornithologist and pioneering bird photographer. First Series, 1936. Fifth edition. Comprising families Corvidae to Sulidae. Illustrated with two hundred and forty-two colour images and seventy-eight photographic plates. Collated complete. Second Series, 1936. Sixth edition. Comprising families Anatidae to Tetradonidae. Illustrated with two hundred and thirteen colour images and sixty-nine photographic plates. Collated complete. Third Series, 1934. Second edition reprinted with a general index. Comprising the migration and habits and observations on our rarer visitants. Illustrated with sixty-eight colour images and sixty-eight photographic plates. Collated complete. In the original full brown cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. The odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small spot. Minor age toning to the endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: Archibald Thorburn; Richard Kearton; E. L. Turner. Very Good .
Keywords: Birds British Eggs Coward British Thorburn Archibald Thorburn; Richard Kearton; E. L. Turner
Price: GBP 65.00 = appr. US$ 92.82 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 899T40
- Book number: 899T40
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