Bird Books and Bird Art

Contemporary half-leather binding of the first edition. TEG. Marbled endpapers. First half of text block somewhat bent. An Outline of the Literary History and Iconography of Descriptive Ornithology. Based Principally on the Collection of Books Containing Plates with Figures of Birds and Their Eggs Now in the University Library at Copenhagen and Including a Catalogue of These Works. Color frontis and plates I-XII, four in color including the Greenland Falcon by Joseph Wolf.