1892 The Birds of Lancashire

Description

Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The second edition of this work, revised and annotated by Howard Saunders, a British businessman, who later in life became a noted ornithologist, specialising in gulls and terns.

In the original cloth binding. 

With a folding map frontispiece and twelve in-text illustrations. Collated, complete. 

This ornithological volume details migration patterns, records and habits of various birds commonly found in the county of Lancashire.

Written by F. S. Mitchell, a member of the British Ornithologists' Union. With additions by Henry Eliot Howard, an English amateur ornithologist, noted for being one of the first to describe territoriality behaviours in birds in a detailed manner. 

From the library of W. H. Mullens (1866-1946), a British ornithologist and author of 'A Geographical Bibliography of British Ornithology from the Earliest Times to the End of 1912' (1917). 

With four pages of advertisements to the rear. Several leaves uncut.