A Vertebrate Fauna of Sutherland, Caithness, and West Cromarty, J.A. Harvie-Brown & T.E. Buckley, 1887

A very smart, and beautifully illustrated, copy of this natural history volume, which has been professionally rebound in green cloth, and presents the book most handsomely.

A Vertebrate Fauna of Sutherland, Caithness, and West Cromarty, J.A. Harvie-Brown & T.E. Buckley, 1887.

Published by David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1887 first edition.

A fine attractive hardback volume which has been bound in a later green cloth, with gilt title to spine. Binding is crisp and clean, and everything is soundly bound. The Book is bound with white card endpapers.

Text is bright and clear throughout. Contains some lovely tissue guarded illustrations in colour and black and white; Illustrated title page, 8 black and white plates and 2 colour plates. Some light offsetting to some of the tissue guards. There are also 2 panoramic fold-outs printed on translucent paper, and a fold-out colour map (all as called for). Gilt top edge.

Overall, a very attractive book.

Text in English.

x + 344pp + Plates + (8pp) Publisher's advertisements.

Dimensions: Approximately 234mm high x 169mm wide x 36mm deep.

Weight: Approximately 983g (unpacked).