[Rarebooks] FS: Birds of Minnesota - Thomas S. Roberts.

[Karen Howell]

Offered today:

ROBERTS, THOMAS S. 

The Birds of Minnesota. 

Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 1932. 

Two volumes.  4to.  11 x 9 inches.  691 pp., 49 color plates; 821 pp. 50-90 color plates.  2 color frontispieces, table of contents, maps, systematic list of birds at front in each volume, 606 black and white illustrations throughout, bibliography, index, 90 color plates; text clean, unmarked, minor toning especially to outer edge.  Bound in dark green cloth over boards, gilt stamped on covers and spines; binding square and tight, lightly rubbed.  Very Good.

$ 50

FIRST EDITION.  “The original definitive work on Minnesota’s birds.  This large, two volume work includes more than 1,500 pages of authoritative text, ninety-two color illustrations by Alan Brooks, George Miksch Sutton, Walter A. Weber, Francis Lee Jaques, Walter Breckenridge, and Louis Agassiz Fuertes, plus over 600 black-and-white photographs and line drawings.  All 327 species recorded in Minnesota at the time (currently 432) receive full treatment, discussing their North American range, range in Minnesota, migration dates, nesting dates, food, field marks, as well as more general information.  It is an informative and interesting work that has stood out as one of the finest state monographs ever published.  Out of print for many years, still often available at larger used book stores.”--The Minnesota Ornithologists’ Union.

Terms: $ 50.00 net, including Media Mail postage within the United States.  I can accept checks, or PayPal, credit cards over the telephone.  Subject to prior sale.  Please call or email to reserve.

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