South Pacific Birds

Delaware Museum of Natural History Monograph Series No. 3. A comprehensive guide to bird life in the islands of the South Pacific with Latin names, description, soft parts, measurements, and geographical range. 31 color plates. Foreword by Kenneth C. Parkes. Introduction. Acknowledgments. Table of contents. Maps of the South Pacific islands on endpapers. Bibliography, list of island names, and index. Laid in card notes that the book was hand bound and gilt-tooled by Kurt Gaebel and Sons. This ornately produced binding was specially created for this copy. The slipcase has a gold image of a bird stamped on the front cover. xii, 218 pages. full light green morocco, spine gilt-tooled with three raised bands, design of bird on front cover produced using various onlays of different colored leathers, all edges gilt, decorated slipcase. 8vo..