The Birds of Siberia: A Record of a Naturalists Visits to the Valleys of Petchora and Yenesei

First thus.  xviii, 504pp, with monochrome illustrations in text and a large folding map at rear.  Fawn cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine.  8vo.  Cloth very slightly pushed in at spine ends, slightly rubbed on extreme corners, with a minor indentation on the lower edge of the front panel.  Some mild shadowing to text block edges.  A previous owner’s bookplate (John Wallington) on the front paste down else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original illustrated dust wrapper, price clipped, heavily and unevenly faded, a little rubbed on extreme edges.

Henry Seebohn (1832-95) was a Sheffield steel manufacturer: his success as a businessman enabled him to indulge his passion for travel and ornithology and he travelled extensively through Europe and Asia observing and recording birds and their habits, becoming an ornithologist of repute.- he was the first to find, in his travels through Siberia, the breeding grounds of various species including Berwick’s Swan, the Grey Plover and the Little Stint.  He wrote a number of definitive texts on birds, as well as many scientific papers, but his most progressive and enduring were Siberia in Europe (1882) and Siberia in Asia (1884).  These two were published together as a single volume in 1901 with the title Birds of Siberia.  The volume offered here is a reissue of that 1901 publication.