Riviera Nature Notes. A Popular Account of the more Conspicuous Plants and Animals of the Riviera and the Maritime Alps.

pp.xv, 402 with b/w. illus. 8vo. Hardback. TEG. Some spotting to ends and minor marks to upper blank margins of pages 269-273 o/w. contents fine. Some neat informed pencil notes to margin of p.220. With small piece of paper loosely inserted with signature C.T. Casey written on it. Decorative cloth boards with gilt lettering vg. plus with a little wear to extremities. Second and best edition. Quirky, erudite and eminently readable, the fifty-four essays comprising Riviera Nature Notes give an astonishingly clear picture of plant and animal life in the South of France at the turn of the twentieth century-not to mention a fascinating insight into the social mores of the time.