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Title: Travels of a Naturalist in Northern Europe: Norway, 1871, Archangel, 1872, Petchora, 1875, in 2 volumes.
Description: London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1905. First edition. Pp. xiv, 541: 23 plates (2 in color), 2 frontispiece portraits, 7 text-figures, 4 maps (2 high-lighted in color). Publisher's original brown ribbed cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, top page edge in gilt, lg 8vo. Documents three bird-collecting trips that took this great naturalist into Russian territory. Harvie-Brown lists specimens collected and provides interesting observations on habitats. See also Wood 379. Signature of W. G. Griffiths on the front endpaper of each volume. Slight wear to cloth along the other joints of volume 1, one outer rear corner with tiny bump, light foxing to endpapers; a tight, bright and clean copy in very good condition..

Keywords: Travel exploration ornithology Norway Archangel Arkhangelsk Oblast Russia Petchora Komi Republic Northern Europe 1871 1872 1875 J. A. Harvie-Brown

Price: US$ 475.00 Seller: Natural History Books
- Book number: 5348

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