Book Details
| Author: | Ryves, B.H.: |
| Title: | Bird Life in Cornwall. |
| Published: | London: Collins, 1948. |
| Classification: | Catalogue 12 - Natural History |
| Description: | First edition. With sixteen superb pen and ink drawings by R.A. Richardson. 256 pp. An account of 27 years of intensive study of the birds of Cornwall. Contents: Part one - Cornish Bird Haunts and Some of their Grander Birds (including accounts of The Chough, The Raven, The Peregrine Falcon, The Common Buzzard, The Montagu's Harrier. Part Two - A Guide to Cornish Birds and their Distribution with some Intimate notes on their Behaviour (including Passerine Birds, Owls, Hawks and Gamebirds, Cornwall's Sea-Birds, The Water Fowl of Cornwall, The Wading Birds of Cornwall. Bottom edge untrimmed. Previous owner's inscription on ffep. Pink cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Overall condition VG. In VG- illustrated dust wrapper - colour illustration of chough on front. |
| Book Number: | #2128 |
| Price: | € 31.75 |
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