The Birds of California: A Complete, Scientific and Popular Account of the 580 Species and Subspecies of Birds Found in the State

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Lot #86The Birds of California: A Complete, Scientific and Popular Account of the 580 Species and Subspecies of Birds Found in the State

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Title:

The Birds of California: A Complete, Scientific and Popular Account of the 580 Species and Subspecies of Birds Found in the State

Author:

Dawson, William Leon

Place Published:

San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco

Publisher:

South Moulton Company

Date Published:

1923

Description:

3 volumes. Illustrated with more than 1100 half-tone cuts of Birds in Life, Nests, Eggs, and Favorite Haunts, from photographs by Donald R. Dickey, Wright M. Pierce, William L. Finley and the author, together with 44 drawings in the text and a series of 15 full-page color plates chiefly by Major Allan Brooks; color frontispiece; printed tissue-guards. (4to) original decorative green cloth, lettered in orange and black. "Students' Edition."

Dawson's great work on California ornithology.

Condition:

Light wear to cloth; gift inscription in Volume 2; very good.

Item#:

231668

Headline:

The Birds of California by Dawson Student's Edn
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