Travels of a Naturalist in Northern Europe: Norway, 1871, Archangel, 1872, Petchora, 1875, in 2 volumes

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Travels of a Naturalist in Northern Europe: Norway, 1871, Archangel, 1872, Petchora, 1875, in 2 volumes

By Harvie-Brown, J.A.

SKU# 15348

$ 475.00

Pp. xiv, 541: 23 plates (2 in color), 2 frontispiece portraits, 7 text-figures, 4 maps (2 high-lighted in color). Publisher’s original brown ribbed cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, top page edge in gilt, lg 8vo. Documents three bird-collecting trips that took this great naturalist into Russian territory. Harvie-Brown lists specimens collected and provides interesting observations on habitats. See also Wood 379. Signature of W. G. Griffiths on the front endpaper of each volume.

Publisher T. Fisher Unwin
Publisher Place London
Date Published 1905
Date Published Estimated No
Edition First
Number of Volumes 2
Reprint No
Condition Very Good
Condition Description Slight wear to cloth along the other joints of volume 1, one outer rear corner with tiny bump, light foxing to endpapers; a tight, bright and clean copy in very good condition.
ISBN
Limited Edition