AVES: A Survey of the Literature of Neotropical Ornithology

Fine hardcover without dust jacket as issued. Limited to 500 copies. Exhibition Catalog of the books in the E.A. McIlhenny Natural History Collection covering four centuries of illustrated books on the birds of Mexico, the Caribbean, and South and Central America. Includes biographies of many eminent collectors and ornithologists who worked and traveled in the New World tropics with a commentary on their principal works. Illustrated with 36 plates in color and black & white. Tom Taylor has put his considerable experience as a book collector and antiquarian bookseller to great use in the writing and production of this book..