Book Details
| Author: | Barrington, Richard M.: |
| Title: | The Migration of Birds as Observed at Irish Lighthouses and Lightships. Including The original Reports from 1888-97, now published for the first time, and An Analysis of these and of the previously published reports from 1881-87. |
| Published: | London: R.H. Porter, Dublin: Edward Ponsonby, [1900] |
| Classification: | Catalogue 19 - Irish |
| Description: | Together with an Appendix Giving the Measurements of about 1600 wings. FIRST EDITION. Limited edition - 350 copies. xxv, 1 - 285 pp (Analysis of the Irish Migration Reports 1881-1897), 1 - 667 pp (Reports on the Migration of Birds as Observed at Lighthouses & Lightships on The Irish Coast, 1888-1897 inclusive). Frontispiece - folding map - Map Showing the Positions of the Irish Light Stations. Text clean throughout. Binding sound. Top edge gilt. Foxing on front and bottom edges which are untrimmed. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on front board and spine. Small gilt vignette of lighthouse on front board. Spine slightly faded. Corners lightly rubbed. Short slit (c.1 inch) in cloth at top of front board. Overall condition VG+. A very scarce title of which only 350 copies were printed - an invaluable source of information on bird migration in Ireland. |
| Book Number: | #8342 |
| Price: | € 2,450.00 |
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