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Birds of La Plata.

Stock Code 107890

New York, Dutton, 1920

Original price $449.00 - Original price $449.00
Original price
$449.00
$449.00 - $449.00
Current price $449.00
Hudson's text of Birds of La Plata first appeared in Argentine Ornithology, a scarce work which Hudson wrote in conjunction with Philip Sclater. To make his text more widely available, Hudson republished the work but omitting references to the birds of Northern Argentina.

First edition. 2 vols., limited to 3000 copies, 8vo, xviii, 244; x, 240 pp., 22 coloured plates by Gronvold, original grey buckram-backed green cloth gilt, covers with gilt pictorial roundel, original dust-wrappers lettered in brown (light edge wear), a very good copy.

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