cuckoo problems von baker e c stuart (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 207 pages; illustrations. ex-library marks, some wear to the edges, frayed at the top of the spine; pages toned, a couple foxed but a good book overall. 8 color plates. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Animals & Birds; Inventory No: 227728.

1942. Natural History, Birds, Zoology. With eight coloured and four monochrome plates. Front hinge is being to crack, signatures are roughly sewn, o/w good cloth and good to fair dust jacket 207p.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of E. C. Stuart Baker's charmingly illustrated guide to the Common Cuckoo. The first edition, first impression.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Illustrated with eight colour plates, and four monochrome plates. Collated, complete.Baker describes and attempts to solve 'the many problems connected with the domestic economy of that most fascinating bird the Common Cuckoo and its relations from all over the world'. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Boards bright, with back strip lightly faded, and bumping to back strip head and tail. Spotting to text block fore edge. Dust wrapper back strip significantly ae toned, with losses of paper to dust wrapper back strip head and tail. Further loss to head of rear wrap, small closed tears to head of front wrap. Closed tear to fold over rear joint. Handling marks to wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean, with light spotting to first few leaves. Very Good Indeed. book.

1st edition. "To enable him to deal with so vast a mass of material the owner has had the advantage of some 70 years personal study of Cuckoos and their life-histories, the present volume containing the result of that study, intimately combined with the work done by previous writers in many countries." Contents includes: I.The need for adaptation of cuckoos' eggs to those of the fosterers; II.Has any evolution taken place in adaptation of cuckoos' eggs to those of the fosterers? III.How has adaptation been attained? [survival of the fittest); IV.How is the cuckoo's egg placed in the nest? V.Other cuckoo problems; Appendices: i.ists of eggs of cuckoos in my own collection giving both trivial and scientific names; II.Lists of eggs of each species of sub-species of cuckoo in my collection with fosterers. Pp.xvo/207, 12 plates(8 in colour), spotting to closed page edges, library bookplate (H.K.Lewis & Co.Ltd Lending Library, London) to inside front board. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine, Lewis Library bookplate wraped over to top edge has wear, boards rubbed and small bumps to edges. Good.