EXTINCT BIRDS - SIGNED LIMITED EDITION
Book Description
ROTHSCHILD, The Hon. Walter Extinct Birds. An Attempt to Unite in One Volume a Short Account of Those Birds which have become extinct in historical times - that is, within the last six or seven hundred years. To which are added a few which still exists, but are on the verge of Extinction. Hutchinson, 1907.
Folio. pp. xxix, 244; 49 plates, [45 in colour]. Original quarter crushed morocco. Number 19 of 300 copies [280 for sale] signed by the author. The illustrations are by John Gerrard Keulemans, George Edward Lodge, Henrik Grönvold, Frederick William Frohawk and Joseph Smit; bound by Arthur C. Colley, bookbinders. A Fine copy.
Dealer Notes
Based on Rothschild’s lecture "On extinct and vanishing birds". Published in the Proceedings of the 4th International Ornithological Congress 1905, London: 191–217.
One of the rarest modern bird books.
One of the rarest modern bird books.
Author
WALTER ROTHSCHILD
Date
1907.
Publisher
Hutchinson,
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