Foreign Bird Keeping

A very scarce turn-of-the-century ornithology study describing non-British species, with charming illustrations. A very scarce copy of this ornithological study, being Part I of two parts total.In the publisher's cloth binding.Undated, dated from a copy held by the Natural History Museum Library.With a lovely folding coloured frontispiece and numerous in-text and full-page illustrations. A charming survey of foreign birds, with details of their characteristics, migration patterns, habitats and origins.From English entomologist, arachnologist and ornithologist Arthur G. Butler, who worked at the British Museum on the taxonomy of birds, insects and spiders.Four pages of advertisements to the rear.With a few contemporary slips of correspondence loosely inserted. In the original cloth binding. Externally, excellent, with only minor rubbing and bumping to the extremities. A couple light marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with scattered spotting to the endpapers. Very Good Indeed.…