Birds of the Northern Forest

Folio; original blue cloth with gilt grosbeak icon on upper board, very slightly bumped at one corner; price-clipped laminated pictorial dustwrapper a little worn at head and tail of spine; slight tape stains to endpapers and flaps of dustwrapper; signed by previous owner (renowned ornithologist Gordon Maclean) on half-title page, with his discreet hand-stamp here and on the front free endpaper; pp. 247, incl. index; 56 beautiful colour plates of Lansdowne bird paintings, with rough sketches of each of the species. Very good condition. "James Fenwick Lansdowne of Victoria, British Columbia, is one of the leading bird artists of his generation. Still under thirty, he has produced some of the finest portraits ever made of North American birds. Scientifically accurate, they are also works of art: original in concept, imaginative in treatment, full of action and life. Now for the first time Lansdowne's bird paintings are made available in superb full-color reproductions with accompanying text by the well-known ornithologist and former Executive Director of the Audubon Society of Canada, John A. Livingston.".…