A Natural History of the Ducks.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. at The Riverside Press, 1922 - 1926.
Price: $1,500.00
About the item
First Edition. Illustrated with 102 plates (74 in color) by Frank W. Benson, Allan Brooks and L.A. Fuertes. 118 maps. 4 vols. 4to. Linen-backed boards, spines a little darkened, corners slightly bumped. Bookplate of Edward Holyoke Osgood, Jr. Casey Wood 518; Nissen IVB 728.
Item #249882
"This rare work stands in the front rank of modern illustrated monographs. It is an exhaustive account of the ducks of the world, with synonymy, description, distribution, and characteristic habits, etc. of each species. The colored illustrations are also very fine, and the great number of distributional maps are quite a feature of the work." (Wood).
