Forty-one full page paintings reproduced in seven-color offset were done by J. Fenwick Lansdowne also includes a chapter on fossil species by Storrs L. Olson, 406 pages. Maroon cloth spine with black title block, gilt rule, titles in gilt, natural linen boards, tan endpapers with brown rail tracks. A comprehensive treatment of the 129 known species of rails, with taxonomic keys, descriptions, life histories, courting behavior, distrubution and status of hundreds of sub-species. The book also includes an unusual section of photographs of these elusive birds, maps throughout show distrubtion. Book comes housed in the plain cardboard slipcase as issued. Dust jacket has tiny bit of wear at base of spine panel otherwise fine. Seller Inventory # 011084

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Title: Rails of the World: A Monograph of the ...

Publisher: M. F. Feheley Publishers, Toronto, Canada

Publication Date: 1977

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: J. Fenwick Lansdowne

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: First Edition

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pp. 40641 colour plates after J. Fenwick Lansdowne, b/w illustrations, sketches, graphs, habitat maps.

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Dillon Ripley, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, a scholar who knows the world's more esoteric birds perhaps as well as anyone, and Fenwick Lansdowne, one of our finest bird portraitists, have combined their talents to produce a work which will be coveted not only by serious ornithologists but also by every collector of fine natural history books. --Roger Tory Peterson

The Rails of the World fills up a very important gap, and it does it unusually well. The text and the illustrations are both of the highest quality, and it is also easy to read and to consult. The rails, of course, constitute one of the most interesting, attractive and widely distributed group of birds. --Jean Delacour

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