Description and condition: Green cloth hardback, dustcover, 8vo, 868pp, index, distribution maps, colour illustrations. Very good, blind-stamped personal library mark present, else nice bright clean pages. In very good dustcover, with slight indentations to rear, now protected.
Contents: Descriptions of every species, including vagrants and accidentals, totalling nearly 900 species; detailed information on identification, status, and habitat; 357 colour plates depicting each bird, main plumage stages, and subspecies; 625 distribution maps; accessible to beginning and expert birdwatchers alike. |