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Lord Lilford on Birds
Editore: Hutchinson & Co., London, 1903
Da: G.J. Askins Bookseller, New Lebanon, NY, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: SNEAB
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Thornburn, Archibald (illustratore). 312 pages, w/illustrrations by Archibal Thornburn. Subtitle: Being a Collection of Informal and Unpublished Writings by the Late President of the British Ornithologists" Union. With Contributed Papers Upon Falconry and Otter Hunting, His Favorite Sports. Blue boards, w/title and falcon design in gold on front cover and spine. Cloth has a stain on front cover, and the spine edges are slightly rubbed. Gilt top edge. Frontis of Lord Lilford, plus other illustrations. Prior owner name on front endpaper otherwise interior is unmarked, tight and clean. A good copy, but not a collectors copy.
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Cloth. Condizione: Good ++. B/W Drawings (illustratore). First Edition. Thomas Littleton (Baron Lilford) became President of the British Ornithologists Union in 1867 and remained in that capacity until 1896. These 271 pages of TEXT (plus appendices, plus INDEX =312 total) are notes from his tenure. They include chapters entitled : `Ponds, Paddocks and Aviaries', `Otter Hunting Falconry and Shooting' , and `Notes from Mediterranean Journals '. Meet Sankey and Grip and / or the tame lammergeiers. In ADDITION to the rooks, hoopoes, snipes, rock-thrushes, pheasants, fieldfares, and peewits you will ALSO encounter otters, rabbits, Barbary mice, lemurs and pied stoats. Victorian biology at its broad-based best. 12 b/w plates (Thorburn) plus frontis complement the text. Cond : Boards are cloth, gilt lettering on spine and face. Issued w/o dust jacket ? Greenland Falcon in (debossed) gilt comprises cover graphic. SPINE top and tail worn, also fore points. Binding tight for age. Top page edge is gilt. P/O name on front ep. VERY minor foxing and soiling. Page edges are sli. rough-cut. Quote (p. 242) : " Discovered a falcon's nest in an apparently almost inacessible hole in high cliff; had an ineffectual chase after two young shags, which could not fly; went back round northern end of Spargi ; lunched in a cove where . ." Size: Quarto.
