NEAR FINE COPY IN NEAR FINE DUSTWRAP. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT WITH 475 INDIVIDUAL STUDIES AS WELL AS THE 26 COMPOSITE PLATES HE PREPARED FOR THE UNPUBLISHED BIRD MAN`S RIVER. A SCARCE BOOK.
LIMITED TO 940 CLOTHBOUND COPIES THIS BEING NUMBER 172. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. OBLONG QUARTO. A NEAR FINE COPY (SOME MARKS OF FOXING TO THE PRELIMS.) IN A NEAR FINE DUSTWRAPPER (FADED COLOUR TO THE SPINE).
VERY GOOD COPY IN VERY GOOD DUSTWRAP. LARGE FORMAT. ILLUSTRATED IN BLACK & WHITE AND COLOUR AND LINE DRAWINGS. A COMPREHENSIVE SURVEY OF THE WORLD OF BIRDS.
FIRST EDITION. VERY GOOD IN DUSTWRAPPER. THIS BOOK HAS THREE PARTS:- 1: SPECIAL CHARACTERISTICS – ORIGINS TAXONOMY ANATOMICAL FEATURES PELLETS. 2: SPECIES DESCRIPTIONS – THE 17 SPECIES DESCRIBED IN DETAIL WITH VOICE BEHAVIOUR FOOD BREEDING AND DISTRIBUTION (34 MAPS). 3: ECOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS – LARGELY CONCERNED WITH INTERACTIONS BETWEEN OWLS AND WITH OTHER BIRDS OF PREY. IDENTIFICATION PART OF THE SPECIES DESCRIPTIONS TEXT IS MORE THAN SUPPLEMENTED BY 8 SUPERB COLOUR PLATES BY IAN WILLIS. IN ADDITION THERE ARE NUMEROUS LINE DRAWINGS AND OVER 70 PHOTOGRAPHS.
FIRST EDITION.VERY GOOD IN VERY GOOD DUSTWRAP. SLIGHT FADED TO THE SPINE. THIS BOOK HAS THREE PARTS:- 1: SPECIAL CHARACTERISTICS – ORIGINS TAXONOMY ANATOMICAL FEATURES PELLETS. 2: SPECIES DESCRIPTIONS – THE 17 SPECIES DESCRIBED IN DETAIL WITH VOICE BEHAVIOUR FOOD BREEDING AND DISTRIBUTION (34 MAPS). 3: ECOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS – LARGELY CONCERNED WITH INTERACTIONS BETWEEN OWLS AND WITH OTHER BIRDS OF PREY. IDENTIFICATION PART OF THE SPECIES DESCRIPTIONS TEXT IS MORE THAN SUPPLEMENTED BY 8 SUPERB COLOUR PLATES BY IAN WILLIS. IN ADDITION THERE ARE NUMEROUS LINE DRAWINGS AND OVER 70 PHOTOGRAPHS.
FIRST EDITION. A NEAR FINE COPY IN VERY GOOD DUSTWRAP. THE AUTHORITIVE TEXT IS COMPLEMENTED BY 64 COLOUR PLATES EXECUTED BY FRIEDHELM WEICK WHO HAS A WIDE EXPERIENCE OF RAPTOR ILLUSTRATION. THE AUTHORS RECOGNISE 212 SPECIES OF OWLS ALL OF WHICH ARE TREATED IN THE BOOK AND THE PLATES DEPICT EVERY SPECIES AND DISTINCT SUB-SPECIES AS WELL AS DIFFERENT COLOUR MORPHS AND JUVENILE PLUMAGES. THERE IS NO CD WITH THIS BOOK.
Author:
KONIG CLAUS, WEICK FRIEDHELM AND BECKING JAN-HENDRIK
