Folio (14 x 10 inches). Illustrations by J. Fenwick Lansdowne. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket; publisher's plain card slipcase. First edition. With a chapter on fossil species by Storrs L. Olson. An exquisitely designed and printed book, produced in Verona under the direction of Martino Mardersteig at the Stamperia Valdonega. A near-fine copy, jacket price clipped and with a few small soft creases and soilmarks to spine panel. Seller Inventory # 406967

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

Publisher: M. F. Feheley Publishers Limited, Toronto

Publication Date: 1977

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: 1st Edition

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

Review:

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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