Birds and Man
Author(s):
Hudson, W H
| Binding: | Hardcover |
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| Size: | 6 - 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall |
| Volume Condition: | Very Good |
| Dust Jacket: | No |
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher Name: | Duckworth and Co |
| Publication Year: | 1924 |
| SKU: | 004769 |
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| Categories: | Animals and Birds , Nature and Natural History |
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[iv] 306pp. Beautiful colour plate frontispiece showing bird perched on a broom bush. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine (slightly rounded on corners and lightly rubbed at spine tips). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight, with a partial prize plate pasted onto the front paste-down endpaper, indicating that the book was presented to one Daphne Goss as the 'Gibbs Prize'. Originally published in 1901, this re-issue include two new chapters, appearing for the first time, and the chapter on birds in the metropolis has been omitted. Chapters include Owls in a Village, Geese - and Appreciation and a Memory; The Dartford Warbler; A Wood Wren at Wells; Birds and Man; Daws in the West Country; etc.
Keywords:
Birds
Ornithology
Nature
