Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds 24 full page color plates

24 full page color plates

keep and breed them and which diseases may occasionally occur (modified after the rear cover blurb)

Original blue cloth

California Date Published 1996 Date Published Estimated No Edition First edition Number of Volumes 1 Reprint Condition Fine Condition Description A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with no signs of use

errata corrections page tipped in at rear

Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds 24 full page color platesPp. xxii, 485, 9 color plates, 32 black and white plates, 22 maps, numerous text figures and end paper map of New Guniea. Publishers original forest green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, color pictorial black dust jacket lettered in white on the spine and front panel, lg 8vo. This volume includes a synopsis of the history of discovery of New Guinea and of the collecting birds of paradise and bowerbirds from the earliest plume collectors to the