Manual of the Birds of New Zealand
Author:
BULLER, WALTER L
Title:
Manual of the Birds of New Zealand
Publisher:
George Didsbury, Government Printer 1882
Description:
FIRST EDITION - ORIGINAL BINDING MISSING SOME PLATES, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt lettering & illus to front board with black rule & decoration also, blind rule to rear board, frontispiece, xii + 107pp + iii to rear, illus/plates [some missing and/or detached], VG- (moderate tanning & heavy scuffing to spine, minor scuffing & bruising to board edges & extrems, minor soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate to heavy cracking to numerous gutters throughout, prev. owner's name in purple pencil to reverse of frontis, light to moderate soiling & foxing throughout, plate XI & pgs 23-26 missing, plates XXIX + XXXV detached but present)
Keywords:
New Zealand old bird books birds ornithology art Walter L Buller Buller's illustrated nature