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Geological Survey of California Ornithology 1870

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Heading:
Author: Cooper, J.G. and S.F. Baird (editor)
Title: Geological Survey of California. Ornithology. Volume I. Land Birds.
Place Published: [Cambridge]
Publisher:[University Press]
Date Published: 1870
Description:

xi, 592 pp. Illustrated throughout from numerous woodcut drawings of birds. (4to) 26.5x19 cm (10½x7½"), original dark green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. First Edition.

A volume from the Geological Survey of California headed by Josiah Whitney. "A report on the birds of California prepared by Cooper from his own field-work and notes, and submitted to Baird for revision and publication. The general accounts, except where signed otherwise, are from the pen of Cooper. Vol. II was to have comprised a similar volume on the water birds, but was replaced by the two volumes of Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway on The Water Birds of North America, 1884. - Wood.

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Front cover detached, spine strip mostly lost, light shelf wear to cloth; faint damp staining near hinges on endpapers; internally clean throughout; very good.

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