The Birds of Ayrshire and Wigtownshire
- Collection : A fine ornithological and natural history library
- Publisher : Thomas Murray and Son
- Published In : Glasgow
- Illustrations : tinted lithographic frontis
Description:
First edition. Very scarce. The frontispiece is by Robert Gray, and shows Ailsa Craig from the south east.
Mullens & Swann p. 251; Freeman 1439.
Condition
8vo (225x148mm), recent cloth, gt title to spine, orig. wrappers retained (a little soiled). Vg. H.A. Macpherson's copy with his name to front wrapper. Rev. Hugh Alexander MacPherson (1858-1901), clergyman and ornithologist, was author (with W. Duckworth) of The Birds of Cumberland (1886) and A Vertebrate Fauna of Lakeland (1892).
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