Birds About Us de Abbott, Charles Conrad - 1900

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1900. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo. Reprint of the second edition. Yellow cloth w/ green stamped bird vignette to front board. xi, 9-288 pp. [24] B&W plates, plus 49 engravings in text. Spotting to boards, rubbing to extremities. Crack to inner hinge at contents page. "The purpose of the work is twofold: to give a necessarily brief but correct idea of the variety and character of bird life almost everywhere about us, and to rouse such an interest in our birds in the minds of readers that they will be ready to act as their defenders rather than their persecutors." (from the Preface to the second edition).