Travels of a Naturalist in Northern Europe: Norway, 1871, Archangel, 1872, Petchora, 1875, in 2 volumes Print is unsigned

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Publisher Cambridge University Press Publisher Place Cambridge Date Published 1988 Date Published Estimated No Edition First Number of Volumes Reprint No Condition Fine Condition Description This detailed volume documents the ecological effects of the introduction of Norwegian reindeer to the sub-antarctic island of South Georgia

Armorial bookplate of Edward Moore on the front pastedown

original pale yellow endpapers

all of the text and hand-colored plates are very bright and clean

Travels of a Naturalist in Northern Europe: Norway, 1871, Archangel, 1872, Petchora, 1875, in 2 volumes Print is unsignedPp. xiv, 541: 23 plates (2 in color), 2 frontispiece portraits, 7 text figures, 4 maps (2 high lighted in color). Publishers 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