Mearns, B. & R. The Bird Collectors. 1st. Ed. Pub. Academic Press. 1998
pp.xvi, 472 with many photographs. Fine in thoroughly vg. dw.
This volume reviews the history of bird collecting from the late eighteenth century up to the present day. They extoll the virtues of scientific collectors and the value of their collections to the study of ornithology.
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