A good plus hardcover, bumped corners, starting at back inner hinge. Previous owners' names on feps. Translated from the Danish text published in 1916. With 2 plates in color and 140 photographs and text figures from drawings by the author. The first fliers were leather-winged pterodactyls, later came the true feather-winged birds. A reptilian lizard was the ancestor of the latter. The history of these strange creatures as presented in this book will prove interesting to scientists and the general public alike.

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Title: The Origin of Birds
Publisher: D. Appleton and Company
Publication Date: 1927
Language: English
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used: Good
Weight: 37 ounces

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String Letter Publishing, Inc.
330 Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, Suite C, San Anselmo, CA, 94960, U.S.A.

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