The Waterfowl of the World, in 4 volumes, in a color pictorial slipcase

By Delacour, Jean

SKU# 19697

$ 225.00
Pp. 1174, 66 fine color plates by Peter Scott, 10 black-and-white plates, 108 maps, 37 text-figures.  Publisher’s original tan cloth, gilt decorations on the spine and gilt border decorations on the front cover, lettered in brown on the spine, in original clear plastic dust jackets housed in a color pictorial cloth-covered slipcase, sm 4to (10 x 7 1/2 inches).  Contents include: Volume 1: The Magpie Goose, Whistling Ducks, Swans and Geese, Sheldgeese and Shelducks; Volume 2: The Dabbling Ducks; Volume 3: Eiders, Pochards, Perching Ducks, Scoters, Golden-Eyes and Mergansers, Stiff-tailed Ducks; Volume 4: General Habits, The Reproductive Cycle Ecology, Distribution and Species Relationships, Fowling, Conservations and Management, Aviculture, Domestic Waterfowl, The Anatomy of Waterfowl, Fossil Anseriformes, Corrections and Addictions.  Volume 1 is signed and dated by the artist Peter Scott on the title page.

Publisher

Country Life
Publisher Place London
Date Published 1975
Date Published Estimated No
Edition Seventh and final printing
Number of Volumes 4
Reprint
Condition Fine
Condition Description A fine set in a fine clear dust jackets in a fine slipcase.
ISBN 0-600-43461-3
Limited Edition