Pirates and Predators the Piratical and Predatory Habits of Birds

A first edition of Meinertzhagen's illustrated study on bird predators, illustrated throughout in colour with vivid plates of different species of birds. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.An excellent and thorough work by Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, exploring the habits of avian predators.Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece, eighteen colour plates, and twenty-five monochrome plates.Collated, complete.Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen was an intelligence officer who has faced controversy about his career, with people believing he fabricated stories of his exploits, and even murdered his wife.From the library of Dr. Ian Durance Pennie, a Scottish ornithologist and physician, who co-founded the Scottish Ornithologists' Club. He contributed essays on a variety of important journals, spending most of his career in Sutherland. Pennie's bookplate to the front paste down. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Patch of fading to the head and tail of the spine and to the top edge. Only a few light marks to the boards. Rear board is a little bowed. Bookplate to the front paste down. Minor edge wear to the dust wrapper. A few light marks and spots to the wraps, including spots to the reverse. Spine is a little sunned. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with the occasional scattered spot, including to the endpapers. Very Good Indeed.…