The Water Birds of North America.
Boston: Little Brown, 1884. 2 volumes. With hundreds of woodcut text illustrations, some hand-colored. 537 pages and 562 pages. Thick 4to, original gilt-lettered green cloth, t.e.g.; two sections of front edge of Volume I heavily abraded, only slightly effecting the margins of a few pages, hinges of volume II just starting. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1884. First Edition. Internally near fine, a very good set. Baird, "described what he saw and in such fashion that no subsequent observer had..... More
