1888 A Vertebrate Fauna of the Outer Hebrides

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Scarce

The first and only edition.

Scarce work.

Illustrated with a large coloured folding map, an illustrated title page and sixteen further illustrations. One illustration has been beautifully hand coloured.

Collated, complete.

Compiled by Scottish naturalists J. A. Harvie-Brown and T. E. Buckley.

An exploration of the fauna, geology and topography of the Outer Hebrides, including the Shiant Islands, the Flannan Isles, North Nonay, Harris, St Kilda, and many others. Harvie-Brown and Buckley also present the faunal position and importance of the islands, as well as documenting the animals found there.

With seventeen pages of advertisements to the rear.

With the bookplate of James Stirling Garden, a British army officer and chartered surveyor.