CRAWSHAY, Richard. The Birds of Tierra del Fuego . London: Bernard Quaritch, 1907. 4 (273 x 192mm). Half-title, 44 plates, comprising 21 hand-coloured lithographic plates after J. G. Keulemans, printed by West, Newman & Co., and 23 photogravure topographical plates, one lithographic map. (Occasional light spotting.) Modern green half morocco, t.e.g. NO. 12 OF 300 COPIES. The 34-page preface constitutes a broad geographical and ecological survey of the island where the author spent six months in 1904-05. 'Birds are the most important fauna of all, although the majority are only summer visitors -- even in the case of Geese and Ducks' (p. xxvii). Nissen IVB 212; Wood p. 305: 'an excellent account of birds collected by the author in 1904, with notes on habitat, nidification, descriptions of their colouration, etc.'; Zimmer p. 151.
CRAWSHAY, Richard. The Birds of Tierra del Fuego . London: Bernard Quaritch, 1907. 4 (273 x 192mm). Half-title, 44 plates, comprising 21 hand-coloured lithographic plates after J. G. Keulemans, printed by West, Newman & Co., and 23 photogravure topographical plates, one lithographic map. (Occasional light spotting.) Modern green half morocco, t.e.g. NO. 12 OF 300 COPIES. The 34-page preface constitutes a broad geographical and ecological survey of the island where the author spent six months in 1904-05. 'Birds are the most important fauna of all, although the majority are only summer visitors -- even in the case of Geese and Ducks' (p. xxvii). Nissen IVB 212; Wood p. 305: 'an excellent account of birds collected by the author in 1904, with notes on habitat, nidification, descriptions of their colouration, etc.'; Zimmer p. 151.
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