Author: Dorst, J.
Title: The migrations of birds.
Description: London, Heinemann, 1962. 8vo (21.3 x 14.3 cm). xix, 476 pp., 130 text figures. Publisher's blue buckram with gilt title on the spine. = First English translation of a seminal work on birth migration first published in French. Written by Jean Dorst (1924-2001). With a foreword by the American ornithologist and bird illustrator Roger Tory Peterson (1908-1996). Provenance: with a handwritten dedication by the author on the front free endpaper recto, to Madame Monica, dated Paris, 25 janvier 1963. Monica Avery de la Salle was a librarian of the Audubon Society, but later returned to France. A lovely coat-of-arms-style natural history bookplate of the Monica library mounted on the front pastedown. Contains a very large bibliography. A unique copy.

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