Vanishing New Zealand Birds
by Richdale, L. E
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Dunedin: Otago Daily Times and Witness Newspapers Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. [1945]. First Edition. Softcover. No signatures. Some rusting to staples. ; This title is No. 5 in the author's "Wild Life" series. Pagination (57)-72 + 6 illustrations on 3 plate leaves + frontispiece. Illustrated covers. Page dimensions: 218 x 137mm. The author visited Big South Cape Island, south of Stewart Island, where the rare South Island Saddleback could still be found. "Lying off the South-west Cape of Stewart Island, just on the Antarctic side of the 47th parallel, this southerly outpost of New Zealand - a veritable virgin treasure - afforded us a unique opportunity of investigating wild life as it exists unspoiled by the interference or apathy of man and his introduced pests. Sixty miles of lonely, boisterous, treacherous seas isolated us from the nearest living beings." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21025
- Title
- Vanishing New Zealand Birds
- Author
- Richdale, L. E
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Otago Daily Times and Witness Newspapers Co.
- Place of Publication
- Dunedin
- Date Published
- [1945]
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Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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