Fauna of Shropshire. Being an Account of All the Mammals, Birds, Reptiles and Fishes Found in the County of Salop. With an Introduction Dealing With the County, A Copious Index....Illustrated by Photographic Plates and Portraits, The.
by Forrest, H. Edward
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About This Item
Shrewsbury: L. Wilding, 1899. 1st Edition . Cloth. Good. Green cloth binding, the colour is faded on the spine, mark from a label at the base of the spine, a couple of small pinprick nicks near the title, the covers are fairly tidy. Browning to the endpapers, foxing to the first and last few sheets (one or two spots inbetween), in this copy the errata sheet is pasted over the list of Historians (early issue). With some of the errata corrected. Ex Belfast library, with neat pictorial bookplate on the endpaper, and neat low visibility blindstamp (without ink) at the top corner of the title and plates. Contains 24 sheets of photographic plates mostly of animals that have been shot and killed in the area and then stuffed and put in a case (maybe the title should have been the dead fauna of Shropshire). Pages; XII, 248, (6).
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- Bookseller
- Bensons Antiquarian Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016323
- Title
- Fauna of Shropshire. Being an Account of All the Mammals, Birds, Reptiles and Fishes Found in the County of Salop. With an Introduction Dealing With the County, A Copious Index....Illustrated by Photographic Plates and Portraits, The.
- Author
- Forrest, H. Edward
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- L. Wilding
- Place of Publication
- Shrewsbury
- Date Published
- 1899
- Keywords
- Natural History, Shropshire, Shrewsbury,
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Travel and Exploration;
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