Witherby, Jourdain, Ticehurst and Tucker - The Handbook of
Witherby, Jourdain, Ticehurst and Tucker - The Handbook of British Birds -H.F. & G. Witherby, fourth reprint, - Five volumes -hardcover, original cloth - 16 x 22 cmWell illustrated with a total of 147 plates (mostly coloured) and many small text illustrations, the fore-edge of one volume a little marked, all volumes very slightly weak internally, cloth slightly rubbed.[From the library of the nature writer Alison Ross, who wrote under the pen-name of “Ceres”, with the occasional interesting marginal note, and an interesting letter to her from the ornithologist David Bannerman.There is also a very brief note from Garth Christian, extremely shabby, written on the reverse of a letter to him from the translator and musicologist Stanley Godman which mentions a piece written by Ceres.{One of the major works on British ornithology, and relevant to much of Northern Europe also.) Read More