A Vertebrate Fauna of Argyll and The Inner Hebrides
Title: A Vertebrate Fauna of Argyll and The Inner Hebrides
Author: J. A. Harvie-Brown & Thomas E. Buckley
Publisher: David Douglas, Edinburgh
Date: 1892
Hardback - 1st Edition - Rare
Includes folding linen backed colour map of Argyll & the inner Hebridean Islands - in fine condition
Additional Product Information
A rare and impressive edition and an important study of the Scottish natural world.
John Alexander Harvie-Brown(1844-1916) was an eminent Victorian Scottish ornithologist & naturalist who wrote and recorded in numerous books his studies of the natural world.
This book is an encyclopaedic record of birds, mammals & reptiles across the western isles and Argyll and one of a five volume record of Scottish wildlife.
Condition Notes
Excellent preserved handsome 1st edition volume.
Cover boards are clean with bending on corners and some minor creasing along bottom edges front and back. Some sun fading on the spine and some fraying of edges at top and bottom however gilt titles remain bright and clean.
Inside pages are bright and clean with some light tanning at the edges throughout the book. Gilt edged paging along the top of the volume. Original marker ribbon still present but detached.
All Illustrations clean with original tissue protection.
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