Author: Tate, P.
Title: Birds Men and Books. A Literary History of Ornithology. [Signed by the author].
Description: London, Henry Sotheran, 1986. 8vo (22.7 x 15.0 cm). Half-title, title page, [v], 193 pp.; 12 b/w plates. Green full cloth with gilt title on the spine. In original red, printed dust jacket. = An excellent ornithological bio-bibliography, chiefly of British ornithologists, from Willughby and Ray to the post-war period, up to the early 1980's. A rare copy, signed, on the title page, by the author, the British ornithologist and bird historian Peter Tate (1926-2009). An excellent, clean copy in a fully intact dust jacket.

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